This 8 week course is recommended for potters that have undertaken an introduction wheel throwing course and have 6-12 months’ wheel throwing experience. Students must already be able to centre clay and create simple forms on the wheel.
The course represents an opportunity for students to progress and consolidate their skills to produce a variety of more complex forms with growing confidence.
As a “project-based” skill-development course, it focuses on learning and refining skills such as working with larger amounts of clay, throwing taller, shaping/bellying and collaring-in, repetitive throwing, throwing and turning feet, faceting & carving, handles: pulling, hand-built and extruded, shaping rims and spouts, as well as creating assemblages from thrown forms.
Projects covered include high, medium and low-profile bowls, “sets” of cups, chip’n dip platters, one-piece lidded containers, and tall necked bottle forms.
At the conclusion of the course, students throw and assemble a teapot or can focus on another project of their choice.
Most sessions will commence with weighing out and kneading of clay, followed by a demonstration of the lesson’s targeted skill/s and projects.
Students will then work at their own wheel, practising the skills and using the time to complete as much of the project as they can with teacher supervision and assistance.
Thrown forms will be taken home by the student so they can manage appropriate drying of the work for processing/turning the following week.
Whilst most projects can be completed in course time, it is expected that students will spend some extra time (either at home or the SCArt studio) refining, practising or finishing projects.
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