403 Wheel Throwing – 1.5kg Cylinder Forms – Vases
In this course, you learn to throw tall cylinder forms.
In this course, you will learn to:
- make cylinder forms with 1.5 – 2 kg of clay;
- fine tune wheel throwing your skills to be more efficient;
- Shaping with wooden ribs;
- trimming tall works;
- glazing of cylinder and bowl forms; and
- take home up to 5 pieces of self-made pottery.
| Lesson #1 | Throwing 1kg cylinders forms – maximizing the clay. (This is an exercise class to help improve throwing skills) |
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| Lesson #2 | Throwing with 1.5 – 2kg. Making cylinder forms and shaping with wooden tools. |
| Lesson #3 | Trimming of Tall cylinder forms |
| Lesson #4 | Glazing – Pouring and spraying |
* Each lesson is a 3-hour class
| Clay | “Free-flow” of clay |
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| Firing | * NOT including firing charges. |
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