Handbuilding Ceramics
Learn about the key handbuilding techniques and how to decorate your ceramic pieces with coloured decorative slips and underglaze colours.
During this Handbuilding Ceramics taster course, you’ll be shown the hand making skills to create your own pieces from slab, coiling and pinching the clay, under the guidance and support of Louise Blois, Technical Demonstrator – Ceramics at Bath Spa University. You'll then put this into practise by making pieces that you can then decorate.
The facilities at Locksbrook Campus provide a wide range of coloured slips and underglazes, which will allow you to try mono printing, inlay and sgraffito to decorate your finished pieces.
By the end of the course, you’ll have produced a series of custom ceramic pieces, which will then be fired for you to collect three – four weeks later.
Please bring along an apron or wear clothing you don’t mind being dirty and covered in clay.
