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Lessons may include mould design and slip-casting technique, shown here in our casting room.
There are three kilns: one for large sculpture, a small fast firing and a raku.
- THE TEACHER
I am your tutor - Sally Hook.
I have worked with clay for twenty six years and am happy to share my
knowledge.
I have a Diploma in Ceramics from the Australian National University's School of Art
and have taught ceramic sculpture and mould making in Bellingen's Camp Creative for six years.
In 2005 I was invited to travel to Vallauris, France - to participate in a two-month residency
with A.I.R. Vallauris - working alongside local artists and potters towards a final exhibition.
(Vallauris is a pottery town on the Cot D'Azure where Pablo Picasso worked for ten years).
My work has been exhibited along the eastern seaboard in Australia and has been featured
in National ceramic publications - "Journal of Australian Ceramics" and "Australian Ceramics."
THE PROGRAM
- Breakfast from whenever you want
it
- Work begins at 9 am through to 4 - 5 pm with breaks for morning tea, lunch and afternoon refreshments.
- Evening drinks (if you enjoy wine, beer,
spirits, etc. or healthy juices and smoothies) and nibbles
- Dinner served around 7 PM.
Longer workshops can include excursions to the beach, the hinterland, gallery
towns, etc.
THINGS YOU CAN CHOOSE TO LEARN:
1) Ceramic sculpture -
which incorporates any of these techniques:
- Coil construction - I will show the correct techniques used to
ensure structures that are free from cracks and weaknesses. Coil
construction can be used to make hollow, three dimensional forms of
almost any design and any size. The sculpture is designed first with a
Marquette (small version) which is referred to - to plan and execute the
large form from the ground up, in rings or layers.
- Slab construction - when a design is made from flat slabs, then put
together in the correct manner to form the three dimensional form.
- Pinch work - a technique which massages and shapes a form from a
ball of clay held in the hand. Complex constructions can be made from
this method, as each form might be part of a larger design.
- Roll and tear construction - fast construction of any free-flowing
design developing experimentally.
2) Wheel Throwing Practice - for pottery making
- The practices used of preparing clay, centring, pulling up and out,
forming designs and getting competent in the process of wheel thrown
pottery making.
- Further to this, if time and the competencies of the learner
permits, the expansion of techniques used to diversify the designs of
wheel thrown pots. i.e.. joining segments, throwing large pots, altering
pot shapes, lids, etc.
3) Mould (mold) Making - for producing your own design
repeatedly through the use of moulds.
- Learning how to make an sculptured (or other) - object -
specifically for the mould (mold) process to be taken from it.
- Bedding the sculpture in for first casting with plaster, then
subsequent processes. These can be simple or quite complex, depending
on the design.
- Finishing the mould and learning the slip casting process (with
other dry moulds) for ceramic reproduction.
- Large scale mould making for murals or garden sculpture.
- Sand moulds
4) Decorating techniques
- Burnishing - bringing a shine and glossy surface to the object
though rubbing.
- Surface designs with carving, impressing, stamping, etc. - many
options
- Glaze mixing, testing, applications.- dipping, pouring, spraying,
painting.
- Brushwork, pattern making with design assistance.
5) Pottery Workshop Processes and Practices
- Lectures on clays - their diversity and their differing qualities -
how and why we use them
- The use and processes of equipment used by the potter in the work
room
- Kiln packing and firing
- Photography and recording your work through digital images
6) Drawing
- Observing and recording an object faithfully with a pencil - a study
in realism
- Diversifying images through different approaches to design - a
holiday of the mind through drawing
- Playing around with different techniques using other drawing mediums
and materials - getting experimental
- Life drawing from a live model.
7) Painting
- Learning the process of working with acrylics or oil paints - the
basics
- Developing a design for a painting - how to build up an idea, how to
approach the canvas.
- Layering with paint - developing areas of colour and techniques with
paint.
- Portraiture, landscapes, still life's, abstract, expressionist and
impressionist approaches can be explored.
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