October 2021
Exploring Decorative Techniques in Ceramics with Maria Vanhees
This 5-week course aims to introduce students to simple decorative techniques including making and applying slips, the use of oxides, carving, texturing, sgraffito and resist techniques. Students will also be introduced to slab building and pinching techniques in order to create the forms to be decorated. The effects of the decorative techniques will be explored in firings to earthenware (and where possible mid-fire) temperatures. Suitable both beginners and advanced learners. Prior experience in working with clay is good but not…
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Intro to Sand-Casting Workshop with Shaun Leyland
This short course is designed as an introduction to metal casting and aims to demonstrate how it can be achieved at a small scale (or even smaller jewellery scale) very simply with minimal cost using local materials.
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Keeping It Simple Mosaic Pavers with Sandra Braithwaite
Sandra Braithwaite will guide you and entertain you through the basics of mosaics. Learn the necessary skills and techniques to complete mosaic works at home. This project will take two days to complete, using simple tools and supplied materials. All materials included Bookings essential Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 December 9:30am-11:30am
Find out more »Keeping It Simple Mosaic Pavers with Sandra Braithwaite
Sandra Braithwaite will guide you and entertain you through the basics of mosaics. Learn the necessary skills and techniques to complete mosaic works at home. This project will take two days to complete, using simple tools and supplied materials. All materials included Bookings essential Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 December 2:00pm-4:00pm
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