Bring your appreciation of creatures with you and let's create using coils and pinched forms. We will discuss and augment the best characteristics of your favorite critters in clay. Build with various clay bodies that best suit your varmints. Glaze in ways that enhance the best aspects of your specimens. Master the application of wings, horns, scales and gills. Appreciate the differences with low and high firings and learn to dip, drip, and spray three different glazes on your work or allow the raw clay body to highlight your sculpted forms. Texturing before, during and after shaped work is optioned to artists. No Rabies vaccination is required. Minimum enrollment needed to run each program, so please don't wait to register!
This course has loosely specific lessons each week. The course also allows individuals to work on a side project and/or major project of choosing with the assistance of the instructor.
• Dip, then drip, then spray three different glazes on one piece. Glazing the non-functional piece that is not a bowl, cup or platter.
• Glaze minimalist techniques and alternatives. Wax resist for texture and surface décor. Using the unglazed clay body to finish a piece.
• Building by addition. Arms, legs, tails, horns, wings, beaks, scales, fur – adhering clay to clay.
• Enhancing a mundane functional piece with a creation you design and adhere.
• Animal silhouette slab renderings
• A simplistic approach to clay. Learning to accept certain aspects of the creature you are making without attempting to do every attribute (a silhouette in clay).