Advancing Wheel Throwing with Marc Sauvage

The primary reason and focus of this course is to reinforce and refine the skills already developed by students, whilst providing them with the opportunity to practice, challenge and extend their abilities into new areas of interest.

In the first half of the course, following  previous lesson formats, students will be initially encouraged to try a number of extension activities and projects:

• ·        Creating oval forms from thrown shapes
• ·        Blending multiple coloured clays to explore neriage techniques in a variety of forms
• ·        Joining multiple thrown shapes to create larger forms
• ·        Throwing and altering closed forms such as spheres and donuts
• ·        Throwing with larger weights

During the first few weeks, students will have time to discuss, with the tutor, the proposed direction of their future ceramic skills and interests, to develop, with assistance, a potential weekly proposal for the second half of the course.

The tutor will then work with students at this time, both individually and with the group, helping them to achieve their goals whilst challenging them to extend their throwing and design skills. A variety of potential surface finishing skills and techniques will be considered in discussion for the final work.