Introduction to ceramics

City Lit

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In London

£ 379 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This 6 evening ceramics course introduces the basic hand-building techniques of working with clay and in its finalweek gives opportunity to try your hand at throwing pots on the potter's wheel, learning how to centre clay on thewheel. You will have hands on experience of making your own finished pieces of pottery to take home. You will buildan understanding of the unending possibilities that clay offers as a material and the process required to achievefinished work. This course gives you time and the expertise to be creative using clay and its related decoratingmaterials.What students liked most about this course run in 2015/16:"I enjoyed learning about the different properties of the clay & felt the tutor was very helpful & informative. It was a very good learning atmosphere."

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Creatively explore texture, colour and glaze application on and into the clay surface
- Make a piece of clay work using rolled sheets of textured clay
- Produce a finished piece of pinched and coiled clay work decorated with ceramic colour
And/or
- Combine the coiling process with a press moulded base made by pushing clay into a ready made plaster mould.

There will be a cost of £1.80 per 500g of clay before the first firing. Porcelain has an additional cost of £14.00 per
bag/ £7.00 per half bag. You may want to bring a note pad and pencil for notes and sketching out ideas. You will
need a pen in weeks 1 to 6 and, in the final week money to pay for the materials you have used.

Practical demonstrations, examples of work, discussions, handouts and hands on work. Design research work
outside the course is optional.

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Subjects

  • Ceramics
  • Drawing
  • Art

Course programme

Everyone will be involved in hands on step by step practical project work to create finished fired pieces that explore
different methods of working the clay. Projects cover a range of making and surface decorating techniques to build
an understanding of how to plan, make and decorate clay work creatively and successfully.

You will decorate clay surfaces using texturing, resist, drawing, painting and simple printing techniques with ceramic colour and glaze.

Additional information

You will get feedback from your tutor which onto which courses to progress. Within City Lit you could progress onto the City Lit Ceramics course- VR710, the Ceramics Portfolio Course - VR711 or the Diploma Course in Ceramics - VR712, all of which are structured courses that can lead to higher education or independent studio practice. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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