Website: www.cyanclayworks.co
This special two part workshop will be held at Cyan Clayworks in Edinburgh, over two consecutive Saturdays:
Feb 21st from 11-4.30
Feb 28th from 11-2.
Building on our popular one day surface workshop, this will focus on experimenting with the surface at two stages, with a firing in-between.
Both Fiona and Chris will run the workshop, so students will be able to benefit from both of their expertise in the surface. In their own ceramic work they often create rich layered surfaces, and use various different techniques such as monoprinting, lino printing, stencilling and scraffito, and experiment with slip and glaze combinations. It is ideal for those who have worked with clay a little before and who want to learn more about the possibilities for decoration, but it is also suitable for complete beginners. The focus will be on giving you a deeper understanding of how to combine different types of decoration at different stages, learning how to create exciting and vibrant surfaces that will enhance your forms.
Throughout the first day we will work with coloured slips, applying layers of colour by brush, monoprinting, stencilling, as well as scraffito and other experimental techniques. We will be using ceramic inks to create printed marks, lines and text; and experimenting with creating texture.
Your pieces will be bisc fired and ready for the second stage of creating another layer of decoration and colour. the following week. Over the fired surface we will look at applying glaze (we have a selection of coloured and clear glazes for you to use) and how it might react with the slips underneath. You will be able to learn about using underglaze pencils and wax crayons, painting with oxides, and monoprinting onto the bisc fired surface.
£155 per person.
For further details and to book please see https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cyanclayworkscic/1858393
