A beginner friendly course to build foundation in hand building techniques with clay. Starting from preparation and wedging, exploring the basic hand technique and applying them in making jewelries. Also the course introduces you to two therapeutically art practices, Dorondago and Kurinuki.
Clay is a wonderful medium to increase your own creativity, bring your imagination to life. also a meditative tool to engage with oneself and to connect with nature. In this course, we will take you through the fundamentals, explain the properties and characters of clay and introduce you to the hand building techniques to work on clay. We will get hands-on starting from the preparation of clay and wedging.
Explore the basic hand techniques like, pinching. coiling, slab method. Learn exciting techniques to create textures on clay, like craving, drawing, stamping, stencil and many more.
Many oldest forms of jewelry have made with clay. Simple art of terracotta jewelry involves rather a labor intensive designing process. In the contemporary age of fashion, the modest terracotta jewelry has found its footing and managed to get the love and recognition it deserves.
This workshop will open up the door and equip you with the right skills to step into the world of terracotta jewelry making.
Kurinuki
Kurinuki, a Japanese term that signifies hollow,a method used traditionally to carve pottery from a single clay block. This method of hollowing out clay is a lengthy, contemplative procedure that results in really unique ceramics that are never replicated.
Mud balls, also known as dorondago, are a type of Japanese art created by mixing mud and water to create a ball-shaped item, then meticulously polished to form a delicate, glossy sphere.
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