If you have a basic knowledge or have attended the beginners course you will be able to expand your ceramics knowledge, developing and refining techniques and learning new processes.
POTTERY & CERAMICS
Ceramics is an exceptionally wide ranging craft/art to study and should be considered as a life long learning process.
Both courses offer the students an opportunity to learn new techniques and processes to further develop their own style in ceramics and pottery whilst learning and adhering to the health and safety aspects of all materials and equipment used.
After assimilating the basic skills on the beginners course the Intermediate and Advanced Ceramic Courses offer the opportunity to develop and refine those skills and introduce many new processes and techniques to the students.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Basic kiln maintenance
Kiln firing programmes, adjustments and effects
Use of Orion Coves to refine firings.
Economics of kiln packing and firing.
Record keeping of firings
Basic glaze composition
Multi layered glaze applications
Use of metal oxides in glazes
Record keeping of glaze effects
Use of glass in conjunction with glazes, bottles,Tiffany glass, marbles, glass beads etc.
Mould making in plaster, hump, slump slip moulds.
Construction and use of drop moulds
Construction and use of formers and supports
Utilisation of easy made formers and supports
Making and using sprig moulds.
Surface decoration techniques using lino cuts, dry point aluminium plates, textiles, wallpapers, rubber printing plates and stencils.
Glaze application using wax resist, latex resist, masking tape etc.
Producing clay slips with varied uses.
Slip casting slip with use of deflocculants
Control of thixotrophy
Joining slips
Coloured painting slip
Majolica decoration
Use of extruders to produce coils, tubes, beads etc
