Bill Jones on fri 12 mar 10
Mark Your Calendar and Register Today!
HANDBUILDING
May 28-30, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia
Presented by Potters Council and Hosted by Spruill Center for the Arts
http://ceramicartsdaily.org/education/handbuilding/
Featured Artist:
Chris Campbell, Marko Fields, Patz Fowle, Mitch Lyons, Sandi Pierantozzi an=
d
Kathy Triplet
What will you learn?
* Learn how to make colored clay patterns, and how to use it in several
different ways.
* Develop these techniques to add to your resume: utilize thrown &
altered elements, coils, slabs, incising, sgraffito, 'poor man's Mishima,'
slip-trailing & inlay, carving, press-molding, texturing, tearing, slumping
and bumping.
* Participants will learn the innovative, straightforward *Patz Process
Ceramic Technique* which is a method of connecting clay forms to make
creative animal sculptures or figures in clay. Attendees will also learn ho=
w
this technique is used to attach clay appendages to traditional pottery suc=
h
as; pinch pots, slab work, coil built pieces and wheel thrown pottery.
* Learn the broomstick technique that shows how colored clays and
textures can be added to the form while the clay is taking shape.
* Learn how to hand build functional pots which have good form, functio=
n
well, and have a sensitivity to the human touch as well as other senses.
* Understand how to apply texture to soft slabs using found objects, cu=
t
out inlaid shapes, clay stamps and bisque molds of textured surfaces which
the clay is rolled on, producing a full slab of texture.
* Learn how to make various pottery forms starting from a basic cylinde=
r
of clay, which is altered by cutting darts or pinching, and pushing out the
clay to round out the form. Alternate ways of treating the bottom of a pot
with regard to added feet or foot rings will be included, as well as variou=
s
types of handles made from slabs and coils.
For more information or to register, visit:
http://ceramicartsdaily.org/education/handbuilding/
800.424.8698
May Luk on fri 12 mar 10
I know what is poor man's porcelain (and I make them) but what is poor
man's Mishima? Is Mishima ever for rich people?
Sounds like a good conference though
May
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Bill Jones wrote:
> Mark Your Calendar and Register Today!
> HANDBUILDING
> May 28-30, 2010
> Atlanta, Georgia
> Presented by Potters Council and Hosted by Spruill Center for the Arts
> http://ceramicartsdaily.org/education/handbuilding/
>
> Featured Artist:
> Chris Campbell, Marko Fields, Patz Fowle, Mitch Lyons, Sandi Pierantozzi =
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and
> Kathy Triplet
>
> What will you learn?
>
> =3DA0 =3DA0* Learn how to make colored clay patterns, and how to use it i=
n se=3D
veral
> different ways.
> =3DA0 =3DA0* Develop these techniques to add to your resume: utilize thro=
wn &
> altered elements, coils, slabs, incising, sgraffito, 'poor man's Mishima,=
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'
> slip-trailing & inlay, carving, press-molding, texturing, tearing, slumpi=
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ng
> and bumping.
> =3DA0 =3DA0* Participants will learn the innovative, straightforward *Pat=
z Pr=3D
ocess
> Ceramic Technique* which is a method of connecting clay forms to make
> creative animal sculptures or figures in clay. Attendees will also learn =
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how
> this technique is used to attach clay appendages to traditional pottery s=
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uch
> as; pinch pots, slab work, coil built pieces and wheel thrown pottery.
> =3DA0 =3DA0* Learn the broomstick technique that shows how colored clays =
and
> textures can be added to the form while the clay is taking shape.
> =3DA0 =3DA0* Learn how to hand build functional pots which have good form=
, fu=3D
nction
> well, and have a sensitivity to the human touch as well as other senses.
> =3DA0 =3DA0* Understand how to apply texture to soft slabs using found ob=
ject=3D
s, cut
> out inlaid shapes, clay stamps and bisque molds of textured surfaces whic=
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h
> the clay is rolled on, producing a full slab of texture.
> =3DA0 =3DA0* Learn how to make various pottery forms starting from a basi=
c cy=3D
linder
> of clay, which is altered by cutting darts or pinching, and pushing out t=
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> clay to round out the form. Alternate ways of treating the bottom of a po=
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t
> with regard to added feet or foot rings will be included, as well as vari=
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ous
> types of handles made from slabs and coils.
>
> For more information or to register, visit:
> http://ceramicartsdaily.org/education/handbuilding/
>
> 800.424.8698
>
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