Description
Class Cost: $125
Class Date: Sunday, March 27th
Class Time: 1:00-3:30 Eastern Standard Time
Class Spaces Available: 15
Sign Up by March 17th
What you’ll get in your digital class kit:
- Preferred brushes sheet
- Preferred sgraffito tools sheet
- Preferred underglaze and glaze page
- Design ideas page
- Terri Kern Underglaze Painting, Monthly Methods Page, Ceramics Monthly
Video and Live Demonstrations Include:
- Idea and design options
- Making a texture free slab using a rolling pin and slab roller
- Creating a wall piece template
- Cutting a wall piece from the slab
- Drying slabs
- Preparing bone dry wall piece for underglaze
- Breaking design down into color blocking
- Painting wall 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
- 2 Large brushes for painting background underglaze blends
- 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 for reference
- Scissors or Xacto knife to cut out design templates
- Sponge
- Manilla folder or piece of cover stock paper for your wall piece template
- Tracing paper
STEPS NEEDED TO PREPARE FOR CLASS:
- Watch the pre-recorded videos.
Consider your design first.
- Creativity exercise: What is it that gives you a sense of serenity? Nature, coffee, tea, music, sleep, dogs, cats, etc.
- Find visual elements that you want to develop into your design.
- Create your design, transfer it onto a manilla folder or cover stock and cut it out.
Creating your slab.
- Using a rolling pin or slab roller, create your slab and remove the canvas texture.
- Lay your template on your slab gently and using a needle tool, cut out your wall piece.
- Gently remove the unused slab from around your wall piece.
- Transfer the wall piece to your ware board for drying.
Underglaze Painting
- Decide what color you want your wall piece background to be.
- 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. (This keeps the surface of the underglaze free of dust until you’re ready to begin painting in the details during class.)
- 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.
*Prior to 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: Sunday, March 27th
Class Time: 1:00-3:30 Eastern Standard Time
Class Spaces Available: 15