Let’s give clay a shape! In the next three ceramic workshops we are sculpting and modelling faces and figurines, building pots of different shapes by using the slab construction technique and making all kinds of imprints for an unique decoration. I’m looking forward to a new series of workshops with you together!
22/3/2025 Sculpting Faces
23/3/2025 Pots with Imprints
13/4/2025 Sculpting Figurines
1. Sculpting Faces
22/3/2025 Saturday, 10:00-14:00
The subject of this workshop will be the human face. All levels are welcome. It is amazing how a lump of clay turns step by step into something almost alive….and it doesn’t matter how realistic nose, mouth, eyes are formed. They get their own life and expression anyway and turn into something very personal and unique.
We will use the local red clay and leave the fired pieces in terracotta colour.
Here you can see pieces from past Modelling Faces Workshops.
2. Pots with Imprints
23/3/2025 Sunday, 10:00-17:00 with a break for lunch which I will provide.
Before we put the parts (bottom, sides, feet etc.) together we make decorative imprints with stamps or whatever can be used as stamps such as flowers, leaves, textiles, buttons, pen lids, just anything you can think of.
These pots will stay in the terracotta colour of the fired clay and for a more contrasty effect I will treat them after the first firing either with a white or a dark colour (as you prefer) before firing them the second time with transparent glaze on the inside if you wish.
Here you find a variety of pots that we made in past workshops.
3. Sculpting Figurines
13/4/2025 Sunday, 10:00-17:00 with a break for lunch which I will provide.
This workshop is devoted to sculpting the human body. After a short study of proportions of the human body and some examples of different kinds of sculptures we shape and model our own figure. This is quite an open field from very realistic to completely abstract.
My intention is to help everyone find an idea, a pose and a way to sculpt a figure that suits his/her abilities and tastes and to support putting it into practice.
The finished sculptures will be dried and fired and will get that typical terracotta colour of the fired clay.
Each workshop is self-contained but of course you can attend more than one.
For all workshops:
- All the necessary materials as well as the firing and lunch are provided.
- No previous knowledge in pottery is necessary.
- As soon as your objects are ready I will contact you so you can come and pick them up from my atelier.
- For any questions or registration call me at 697 422 11 51 or email me at schnyder.barbara@gmail.com.