Description
Class Cost: $125
Class Date: Saturday, October 15th,
Class Time: 1:00 – 3:30 pm Eastern Standard Time
Class Spaces Available: 15
Sign Up by October 1st
What you’ll get in your digital class kit:
- Preferred brushes sheet
- Preferred sgraffito tools sheet
- Preferred underglaze and glaze sheet
- Bird reference sheet
- Terri Kern Underglaze Painting, Monthly Methods sheet, Ceramics Monthly
Video and Live Demonstrations Include:
- Preparing bone dry sculpture for underglaze
- Design options
- Breaking design down into color blocking
- Painting piece with several layers of underglaze
- Creating design templates
- Design transfer with tracing paper
- Underglaze painting set-up
- Brush wrapping
- Know your detail brush possibilities
- Painting in color blocked areas
- Blending underglaze color
- Creating a black outline with underglaze and a detail brush
- Creating shading lines
- Creating wet black sgraffito
What participants need to have for class:
Black underglaze
- Preferred underglaze colors
- 1 Large brush for painting larger areas of underglaze coverage
- Several medium sized pointed brushes
- Several small pointed brushes
- Script or Liner brush for painting outlines
- Preferred sgraffito tools
- Bottle cap from a bottle of “Smart Water”
- Scotch tape
- Water
- Pencil & paper for notes or drawings for reference
- Photos of birds for reference
- Scissors or Xacto knife to cut out design templates
- Sponge
- Manilla folder or piece of cover stock paper for your bird design templates
- Tracing paper
STEPS NEEDED TO PREPARE FOR CLASS:
- Watch the pre-recorded videos.
Consider your design first.
- Look at photos of birds and notice their head, wings, breast, tail, etc. for design inspiration.
- Create your design and break it down into individual components: head, wings, breast, tail
- Decide what color you predominantly want your (bird) sculpture to be.
Underglaze Painting
- Wipe down your bone dry sculpture with a sponge to remove any dirt or rough areas.
- After letting your piece dry thoroughly, apply your first layer of underglaze with a brush.
- After letting your piece dry thoroughly, apply your second layer of underglaze with a brush.
- After letting your piece dry thoroughly, apply your third layer of underglaze with a brush.
Finalize your design
- Cover your piece while you finish working on your design.
- Break your design down into sections for color blocking and create templates or design transfers on tracing paper.
- Pencil or transfer your design onto your piece.
*A week before class, I’ll send an invite for a Zoom chat to see if anyone has any questions or needs design help.*
Once you’ve completed these steps, you will be ready for class!
Class Cost: $125
Class Date: Saturday, October 15th
Class Time: 1:00-3:30 Eastern Standard Time
Class Spaces Available: 15