Explore your personal creative ideas in clay, increase your making and decorating skills. Use a range of hand building techniques to develop your practical skills and expand your knowledge of ceramic materials.
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This is a 6 day ceramics course which gives opportunity to plan, develop and make your personal ideas as the course progresses.
What will we cover?
- Consideration of what makes a finished piece of work successful / convincing - Designing and planning personal work using a range of hand building techniques of your choice - Investigation and experimentation of surface treatment and texture.
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Plan your own work - Creatively explore texture, colour and glaze application on and into the clay surface - Use clay, slips, glaze, oxides and commercial colours - Make a piece or a cohesive group of work using a combination of different hand building techniques such as coiling, pinching and press moulding and or slab building - Build by extruding and or modelling and hollowing - Assemble and alter clay components.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is suitable for people who already have some clay making experience and wish to add to their hand building with clay experience. It is helpful to this course if you are familiar with the process required to reach a finished fired result.
You should be able to follow simple written and verbal instructions, demonstrations, hand-outs and health and safety information. You should be able to use numbers and be able to do simple measurements and calculations. Self-reflection is an important part of art education and practice, you will be encouraged to evaluate and review your own learning, ways of working and progress and be invited into group discussions.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
Examples of work, group discussion, hands on work, demonstrations, design research work outside the course is optional.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Tools are available within the department for use but you may wish to bring your own. There is a charge of £3.00 per 500g for clay before firing, the porcelain charge is £24.00 per bag/ £12.00 per half bag. Ensure that you bring with you a suitable pair of closed shoes, e.g. not open toed sandals. You will be expected to show good workshop practice and follow health and safety guidelines.
In the final week you will need to pay for materials that you have used during the course, payments to be made by contactless card reader.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
You Tutor will discuss progression routes with you, you may be interested in;
VR711 Ceramics Intermediate, VR708 Pottery Intermediate, VR725 Pottery on Saturdays: intermediate or VR712 Ceramics diploma, all of which are structured courses that can lead to higher education or independent studio practice.
We’re sorry. We don’t have a bio ready for the tutor of this class at the moment, but we’re working on it! Watch this space.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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