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• Intermediate throwing with Marc Sauvage

  • Start
    22 Apr 2025
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  • End
    24 Jun 2025
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  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    Pottery studio
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    0

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  This 10-week course represents an opportunity for students who have completed the Beginning Throwing course (or equivalent) to progress and consolidate their skills into making a variety of more complex forms with growing confidence. Ideally, target students are able to centre clay and create simple forms on the wheel. 

  
  

  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. Some of the projects covered include high,

  medium and low-profile bowls, “sets” of cups, platters, lidded containers, and tall forms. At the conclusion of the course, students make and assemble a teapot or can focus on another project of their choice.

  
  

  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. Whilst no time has been allocated for glazing, students can access the studio glazes and firing facilities in their owntime in order to complete the work.

  
  

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• Pets and Pastels with Lizzy Connor

  • Start
    24 Apr 2025
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  • End
    15 May 2025
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Art Studio
  • Spaces left
    5

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  PASTELS AND PETS with Lizzy Connor (4 weeks)

  Painting pets with pastels can be a delightful and rewarding artistic endeavor. This course will explore creating images of some of our best friends with the lovely medium of soft pastel. 

  This workshop will investigate the properties and limitations of pastel including mark making, blending with fingers and brushes on small pieces of canson and colourfix.  We will be considering colour schemes, as there is little opportunity to mix colour, and what impact does the colour of the paper have on the colours of the pastel, the lightness or darkness of the paper will determine whether your working on shadows first or leaving your lights out.

  Participants are encouraged to bring an image of their best fur friend, or feathered friend. 

  Download the materials list here

  
  

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• Dots and Dashes - A pointilistic view - Mellissa Read Devine

  • Start
    17 May 2025
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  • End
    18 May 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Art Studio
  • Spaces left
    5

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  “Dots and Dashes” A Pointilistic view of the World with

  Mellissa Read-Devine

  17 – 18 May 2025

  This workshop will help you add vibrancy to your painting and improve your use of colour.  Learn brushwork techniques used in impressionist styles.  The workshop is suitable for all levels.

  With her own work often described as “macropointilist” Mellissa is keen to help you be able to find your own style and will encourage you to paint bolder and brighter, with an emphasis on vibrant colourful brushstokes. The weekend will be spent painting your choice of subject from your photos and sketches.

  Day 1 will be spent exploring the use of brushes and other tools to make semi abstract works inspired by flowers.

  Day 2 will be encouraging a different scene, perhaps an abstracted andscape or a continuation of the floral theme depending on your own tastes.

  Mellissa Read-Devine is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of NSW and is the Acrylics tutor at the RAS Art School. www.readdevine.com.  Mellissa is joining us from Sydney to deliver this workshop.

  

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• Raku Firing

  • When
    23 May 2025
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    2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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  The next raku firing will be on 23 May.

  Anything for special bisque (900 degrees) firing needs to be in by Sat 10 May and placed on the Raku shelf.
  
  Raku glazing will be on Monday 19 - Wednesday 21 May only.

  No glazing on the day of firing.
  

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• Open Studios Weekend

  • Start
    24 May 2025
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  • End
    25 May 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Studios

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  Sunshine Coast Art Group will be participating in the 2025 Open Studios Art Trail.  We will an exhibition of artists and potters works and have some demonstrations for the public.

  Members can participate by completing the Expression of Interest Form 

  Featured as part of the Central Coast Trail, we will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday 24-25 May.  

  Come and see unique art works and meet the artists.  Watch demonstrations and see creativity in action.

  See the works of 15 potters and 10 painters.  

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• Shared Skill Session - Highland Cow

  • When
    31 May 2025
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Pottery studio
  • Spaces left
    2

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• Glaze application and Surface design application

  • When
    8 Jun 2025
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    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Pottery Studio
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  With Nicci Parry-Jones

  Workshop Description:

  Come on a messy journey into the world of glazing to explore:

  • Dipping, pouring and spraying

  • Sponging, brush work and slip trailing

  • Using resists and oxide washes

  • Glaze on glaze and techniques for highly textured surfaces

  • glazing for purpose, common glaze faults and food safety

  • the benefits of glaze tests and recording results

  And surface decoration on greenware:

  • Bubble technique and applying underglaze

  • Using slips and slip trailing

  • water etching 

  • applying transfers

   

  The Club will provide:

  • underglaze colours

  • plastic jugs

  • iron oxide

  • body stains

  • latex gloves

  • sponges

  • SCArt glazes to demonstrate application

  • cold wax

  • brushes

  • slip trailers or small plastic bottles with thin nozzles

  
  

  Participants will need to bring:

  • 6-8 bisqued pots

  • 3-4 raw pots (including one small plate)

  • 1-2 leather hard pots

  Pots need to be simple forms to work on and large mug sized.

  • Pottery tools

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