Description
Curriculum Highlights:
Clay Preparation & Quality Control: Further refine your clay preparation methods, ensuring consistent results and the perfect canvas for both hand-building and wheel-based techniques.
Integrating Hand-Building & Wheel Techniques: Explore pinching, coiling, slab construction, and wheel-throwing to create complex forms that showcase your expanding range of skills.
Advanced Wheel-Throwing & Forming: Strengthen your control over centering, shaping, and finishing thrown pieces, empowering you to confidently tackle more challenging shapes.
Refined Trimming & Finishing Techniques: Hone your trimming and surface finishing skills to achieve cleaner lines, sharper profiles, and more elegant final pieces.
Handles, Spouts & Lids: Perfect the art of adding functional components—such as handles, spouts, and lids—to create integrated pieces that reflect your evolving craftsmanship.
Commitment Requirement:
As with all pottery endeavours, progress comes with consistent practice and patience. You’ll invest time refining techniques that may not yield immediate tangible results. This class encourages perseverance, ensuring that as you experiment and explore, you’ll steadily build a portfolio of work that reflects your personal evolution as a potter.
Prerequisite:
This class is designed for individuals who have completed at least a beginner pottery course or have foundational clay-handling skills. Having basic experience ensures you can fully engage with the material and confidently expand your repertoire of hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques.
Join us on this journey to elevate your pottery practice! Dive deeper into the world of ceramic artistry, refine your techniques, and enjoy the freedom to explore new forms. Whether you’re an enthusiast aiming to grow or a seasoned practitioner seeking fresh inspiration, this Open Hand-Building & Wheel class will empower you to refine and express your creative vision.
Tutor: Michael Michaels
Term dates:
Term 1: | 6 February | 10 April | |
Term 2: | 1 May | 26 June | |
Term 3: | 17 July | 18 September | |
Term 4: | 9 October | 11 December |
Enrolment fee: $295.00 (incl. GST)
Clay, glaze, and firing costs are not included in the enrolment fee.
Where: This class is held at our KudoClay Studio, 4/11 Homersham Place, Burnside, Christchurch.
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