STRATA: UTILIZING SLIPS
JULY 21, 2019 – JULY 27, 2019
RONAN PETERSON AND TERESA PIETSCH
https://www.arrowmont.org/workshops-classes/workshop-details/?action=evrplusegister&event_id=545
This workshop focuses on using slips, terra sigillatas and glazes to create dynamic, colorful and varied surfaces for ceramic vessels. Relying primarily on abstract images and patterns, students will create vast worlds of information and narrative within a frame of functional vessels. Wheel throwers and hand builders alike will gain knowledge and approaches to dynamic ceramic surfaces. Class demonstrations include how to create dynamic, textured, and patterned backgrounds for further enhancement with glazes, and reverse painting colored slips onto newsprint to create lively and colorful images and backgrounds to be printed onto leather hard vessels. Post-bisque demonstrations include minimal glazing and how to use various washes as surface treatments for firing in an electric/oxidation kiln. Both instructors will use red earthenware clay and fire in an electric kiln in the cone 1-2 range. Experience with clay, being able to center and throw at least two-plus pounds of clay, and ability to hand build vessel forms are required.
JULY 21, 2019 – JULY 27, 2019
RONAN PETERSON AND TERESA PIETSCH
https://www.arrowmont.org/workshops-classes/workshop-details/?action=evrplusegister&event_id=545
This workshop focuses on using slips, terra sigillatas and glazes to create dynamic, colorful and varied surfaces for ceramic vessels. Relying primarily on abstract images and patterns, students will create vast worlds of information and narrative within a frame of functional vessels. Wheel throwers and hand builders alike will gain knowledge and approaches to dynamic ceramic surfaces. Class demonstrations include how to create dynamic, textured, and patterned backgrounds for further enhancement with glazes, and reverse painting colored slips onto newsprint to create lively and colorful images and backgrounds to be printed onto leather hard vessels. Post-bisque demonstrations include minimal glazing and how to use various washes as surface treatments for firing in an electric/oxidation kiln. Both instructors will use red earthenware clay and fire in an electric kiln in the cone 1-2 range. Experience with clay, being able to center and throw at least two-plus pounds of clay, and ability to hand build vessel forms are required.