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Workshop Outline:
"Oh Yes You Can!"
- Program:
- First Day
- Morning
- Introduction
- Will be doing the "forbidden" and "impossible"
- How I got started
- Philosophy
- Inspirations
- Demonstrate decorating techniques
- Sponge Techniques
- Resist Techniques
- Crayon / Pastel / Hard Wax Resist
- Elmer's Glue Resist
- Floor Wax Resist
- Paper Resist
- Tape Resist
- String Resist
- Brush Techniques
- Afternoon
- Have participants try demonstrated techniques
- Fire bisque to harden decoration
- Demonstrate different ways to wrap pots (day 1 or day 2)
- Discuss making of Terra-Sigillata (day 1 or day 2)
- Discuss firing technique (day 1 or day 2)
- Demo making techniques (day 1 or day 2)
- Evening
- Share Stories
- Share Belgian Chocolate
- Show slides (day 1 or day 2)
- Talk Pots
- Second Day
- Morning
- Demonstrate different ways to wrap pots.
- Smoke Firing 1.5 to 3 hrs (1.5 to 3 hrs to cool)
- Afternoon
- Clean up Studio
- Open Kiln
- Look at and talk about the work
- "Wax" Pots
- Talk about the work
- Maybe a second firing if time
- More talk about pots
- Experiencial Aim:
- Have a good time
- Get a bit crazy
- Discover that no results are "bad"
- "Look" at what you get and work with it.
- A lot can be done with a little
- No "formula"
- No rules
- Participants should bring:
- Several small to medium size, BISQUED pieces (white or light
bodied or white sigged).
- It would be interesting if some of the work they brought was made
with a paper clay. This can go VERY black.
- Decorating tools, brushes, sponges, sponge rollers, fuzzy pipe cleaners.
- One "unusual" tool
- Old crayons
- Old oil pastels
- Old news papers
- Scissors
- Workshop provide:
- Electric kiln, well vented or gas kiln with a controler (need to
be able to keep it above 451f/232c for a certain amount of time)
- Workshop assistant (knows where things are and how things work)
- Lots of old newspapers (print is better than pictures, black and
white better than color)
- Waste Bisque to me to demonstrate on
- Sponges, natural, bits of foam, etc
- Large Bottle of Elmer's glue, Patex White Glue, etc
- Cotton String or Cotton Yarn (various sizes)
- Sisal or any "fuzzy" string
- Wax Resist, Latex Resist, whatever
- Masking Tape (different widths)
- Spray Bottles (the worse sprayers the better)
- Tooth Brushes
- Liquid, Acrylic, Floor wax
- Liquid bee's wax
- Teak oil (Real Teak Oil, not Teak Oil Varnish or Tung Oil or Tung
Oil Varnish!)
- Soda Ash (NA2CO3), washing soda or "Cristaux de Soude",
Hydrated Sodium Carbonate, (NA2CO3.10H2O)
- Sodium Silicate, "Egg Keep", "Water Glass",
( NA2O.SIO2)
- Several wide rolls of caterer's, double strength, aluminium foil
- Soft Steel Wire and Wire Cutters
- Plastic buckets and containers for different concentrations of the
sig and for dipping and pouring
- Jiffy mixer (paint mixer) and electric drill
- Maybe some Terra-Sigillata waste and some Epsom salts to demo waste
sig, bisque, slip
- I'll bring
- Wet, Concentrated Orange Terra-Sig
- My own tools
- Pots to show
- Slides to show
- Brochures, Cards, etc
- Belgian Chocolate
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