9.30am to 4.30pm ish
£120 Lunch and fresh coffee included
Material Charges: £45 inc clay & two firings payable to tutor on the day (see below NOTE*)
Sculpt your own beautiful seated Ceramic Fox, with Mark Bradley
We're delighted to welcome Mark and this brand new course to Greystoke - in addition to his beauitful hare, he is now offering this amazing Fox workshop.
Enjoy a busy and absorbing day being guided through the many processes involved in creating these amazing foxes. Each fox will be unique, with its own quirks and personality - and towards the end of the class you can choose to create a smoother finish for it, or more textured as in the main photo - or any permutation in between. The choice is yours. Each fox will be roughly 30cm (1ft) high when finished.
Mark will provide all the equipment and materials needed to create your lovely sculpture in just one day - you only need to bring along shirt or apron to protect your clothes and your materials money below. Once finish the foxes will be very carefully transported back to Mark's studio to be slowly air dried. After around a month they will be ready for bisque firing.
Assuming they all survive the first firing in the kiln ** Mark will the then apply the various oxides to highlight the body, snout, ears and brush particularly, before then firing for a second time.
The colouring is with oxides, students can choose to skip this stage if they wish, and Mark can return them either bisque,or fired twice, which turns the clay into stoneware.
The foxes will hopefully be ready for collection back at Greystoke within 4 to 6 weeks of the class. Sometimes, in damp conditions, this can take take longer.
This course will usually take place in the ground floor Squirrel Barn with three steps up from the gravel driveway.
This class is suitable for every standard of student from beginners upwards
* NOTE : As fans of 'Pottery Throwdown' know well - putting anything into the hands of the 'kiln gods' is a risk. They're an unpredictable lot, and sometimes things go wrong and carefully sculpted pieces can be damaged with small cracks appearing during the firing process. Or badly wrong even - very occasionally pieces may even explode! If breakages occur, repairs will of course be attempted. Although rare, students should understand this is 'part and parcel' of working with Ceramics and kilns, and there is no guarantee their workshop piece will turn out perfect or in tact.
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