Learn clay with me!
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Workshop description:
Learn Clay With Me!
If you want to know how to slow-make an irregular but elegant, sculptural, but functional ceramic cup in a meditative process, this workshop is for you.
Embracing the Wabi Sabi worldview, in a hand and mind-training workshop, I will share my understanding of some Japanese ceramic forms and techniques including Kurinuki and different decoration techniques with you. You will sculpt one or two, or as many as you want, Kurinuki cups using stoneware ceramic clay. You can later join a glazing workshop and finalise them for every day use or decoration.
I share with you a lot of useful basic theories about clay as well to help you choose the right clay and tools for different purposes.
This Desert Spirit Ceramic workshop mostly follows Kurinuki a Japanese hand-building technique and forms adjusted by Sepideh to create unique and sculptural but perfectly functional cups.
Outcome of this workshop can look primitive or contemporary, complex or minimal ceramic cups based on your taste. I am there to guide you through basics, and farther challenges.
This workshop also helps the participants to get to know a very useful clay-carving technique which is not only used to make Kurinuki dishes, but also in making sculptures for those who might be interested in. More interestingly, this course is designed to have plenty of freedom and fun in it allowing you to really enjoy the experience.
How to not scared of starting a ceramic piece:
Bonuses:
– There is an extremely exciting experience as a unique surprise for you offered in this ceramic workshop! It will only unfold at the beginning of the workshop.
– In case there is time left in a session, according to your interest, you can choose to learn from several traditional decoration techniques with clay or plaster.
– You can make your own signature stamp to mark every piece you make from the first day.
GOOD NEWS: After this workshop, you should be able to make as many unique cups as you want at home without making a mess!
TWO DAYS workshop in Desert Spirit Ceramic studio a cozy workshop space in The Hague which can host max three persons at the time. Therefore, your workshop is a private or a semi-private one. The luxury is that it is pretty flexible and adjustable to your level of experience, interest and knowledge as well as your personal taste.
The followings are some examples of what you will be making in a workshop inspired by Japanese ceramic.[/caption]
You will learn different decoration techniques on tiles to then apply on your ceramic pieces. But the tiles themselves will be beautifully glazed too.
You will learn different slip applications such as pour-patterning and slip-inlay with different slip colours on your pieces. Slip can create beautiful effects in combinations with right glazes.
Kurinuki is a traditional Japanese technique. It is basically a carving technique to create an object that celebrates the imperfection, uniqueness and expressiveness.
Kurinuki technique is open to any wild creativity!
This charming cup is one of the few kurinuki cups made by one of my clay learners.
