Ceramics
courses: Passions and little obsessions: modelling useless and useful
objects, muted and whistling objects… earthenware that sings, that can be
gently stroked, touched, made use of…
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A beginners course for modelling and basic
techniques. slab, colombino , multiple decoration techniques on
slab, also possibility of learning how to create whistles. |
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An advanced level for those wishing to experiment
further as follows: |
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1st and 2nd lessons: how to
make a gypsum mould and a latex mould (4 hours); |
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3rd and 4th lessons:
moulding earthenware with oxides, agathe technique, mosaic, etc; |
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5th and 6th lessons:
moulding of clay in the mould prepared in the first lessons. |
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Manufacture and formulation of
enamel and engobe directly from raw material. |
For the Spring/Summer we organize courses of:
Naked Raku
Soft Raku
Raku
Mapuche
Smoking
Terra
sigillata
Naked Raku. It’s an
alternative to traditional raku. The model surface is craquelé. But
without enamel, its outer resemblance is simple and refined. This is
because during reduction the model breaks its outer vitreous shell
displaying its craquelé.
Soft Raku. It’s a raku
firing where reduction is performed at lower temperature. Advantages: it
is possible to employ gres that usually does not stand high temperatures
or thermal shocks and terre sigillate.
Raku Mapuche. This reduction
technique originates from Latin America. It is done with the help of
holes dug in the earth or in metal containers that as reduction use
fresh leaves from specific plants.
Smoking: same technique of the
Etrurian "bucchero". The firing uses sawdust and terre
sigillate Allows the production of shining and metallized blacks.
Terra sigillata is a
particolar engobe used by the ancient Etrurian and Greek peoples. It
starts with a decanted earth, then is obtained a very fine engobe which
is applied to the model either before or after firing. It is possible to
obtain gleaming reds by oxidation or silvery blacks by reduction.
