Fall: Image and Clay - Spice Up Your Surfaces!

Image & Clay - Spice Up Your Surfaces! 

This class is suitable for students looking incorporating images and designs on their handbuilt or thrown forms.

Prior experience with basic handbuilding and/or throwing recommended.

Sunday, 5-8pm: September 21-November 22

Instructor: Yve Holtzclaw, artist-in-residence

$325 for members / $340 for non-members

MEMBERS: Add Coupon Code "Member15" to receive your $15 discount 

Interested in livening up the surfaces of your handbuilt or thrown ceramic work? Yve will introduce a myriad of simple and effective surface decoration techniques that will explore approaches to design and imagery in clay. This includes sgraffito, inlay techniques, water etching using wax resist and shellac, paper stencils and transfers – just to name a few! Students will come away from this ten-week course with several new techniques - achievable with basic supplies, colored slips and underglazes -  that can be used on low, mid and high fire clay bodies. We suggest you have basic experience with clay so you can focus on how to apply these exciting new techniques to ceramic forms that you are interested in making.

Included in class fee:

• First bag of clay
• Basic image/design supplies
• All firing fees for work created in ALL classes are included in the class fee  (size limit- items must not measure more than 20” in any direction)

• access to work in studio outside of class meeting time

Access outside of class time will be restricted to business hours when other classes and programs are not in session in the classroom, and additional monitored  times. Your instructor will orient you on how to reserve open studio access on the first day of class.

We ask that students comply with all of our health and safety guidelines. A student waiver will be issued during the first class meeting with the most up-to-date guidance.

CLASS DEMO SCHEDULE:

Week 1 -
Class overview and hello
Introduction to sgraffito, mark making, tiles, and slips

Week 2 -

Alternative Sgraffito

Responding to a form in the round, thinning the slips

Week 3 - 
Inlay - “Mishima,” Wax Carving, Sponge Inlay

Week 4 -

Wax Resist/Shellac for water etching

Week 5 -

Paper resist, paper stencils

Week 6-

Paper Transfer/slip trailing demonstration

Week 7-

Hot glue and metallic sharpie inlay resist

Week 8 - LAST WET DAY
Discuss bisque stage color additions (Inlay, stains, glaze applicators)

Week 9 - 
Work day
Directional Color/Glaze with Sprayer

Week 10 -
Glaze your brains out! Potluck and goodbye!