More Hand Building With Gabriel
Again the club is very fortunate to be able to offer skill building workshops to our members. Gabriel, one of our experienced hand building members will be offering a short hand building course. These classes will run in a block of 6 weeks with a minimum of 5 participants for the class to proceed. The class size will be limited to a maximum of 8.
These will be conducted on a Saturday afternoon, so that participants and tutor have the shed to themselves, and will be able to spread out.
A summary of the curriculum includes: clay safety, clay preparation, building small 3D forms, pinchpot method, making slip, using coils for a 3D form, slab mug and box, recycling clay, and glaze application. The first 3 weeks will be held continuously, and then there will be a one week break to allow participants to finish off pieces and have them bisque fired. The workshop dates will be 6,13, 20 August, then 3,10,17 September.
Start date is Saturday 6th August, 2022.
Times will be 11.30am to 2.30pm, of 3 hour’s duration.
The cost will be $260 for 18 hours tuition in a 6 week block, payable in advance. Included in the cost is a block of clay suitable for hand building. The usual $7 entry fee is included in the price. Firing of pieces will be at the usual club rates.
The club has a limited supply of tools and rather than sharing among the group it would be better to have a set of your own basic tools. These will be available for purchase at cost and sold only as complete kits at $30 each.
Members’ price for the workshop is:
Tuition fee including 1 block of clay $260.00
Optional basic tool kit $30.00
Non–Members’ price for the workshop is:
Tuition fee including 1 block of clay $310.00
Optional basic tool kit $30.00
The club will have for sale a small amount of surface decorating items. These are also optional and sold at cost.
Onyx black wonder colour 100ml $14.00
Mini ribbon tool set of six $25.00
Please notify the club here if you wish to be included in this workshop. Positions based on a first come basis: shorncliffepotteryclubincmembership@hotmail.com
Payment instructions and confirmation will be emailed to you.