Pot & Chatter
I started running the Pot and Chatter group on a Wednesday morning to help people who wanted to have a go at pottery but didn’t really know what they wanted to do. I set projects for them each week where they acquire skills and learn various techniques. It proved so successful that I have had to run Pot and Chatter on a Monday morning as well.
These groups of regulars enjoy the social aspect of the sessions as well as the fact that they are learning all the time.
The thing I love about our Pot and Chatter groups is that I can give a whole group of people the same directions, and yet each piece produced is different.
Pot and Chatter Projects
Set projects past, present and future. I'm adding to the list all the time.
- Tiles (group as in splashback)
- Make tiles with 3D design (individual or 3D picture over several tiles
- Luminary for tea lights
- Half Bottle slab dish
- Shaped Chalk Board
- House Numbers
- Slab pots
- Clay puzzling
- Pebble pots
- Cake/cupcake stands (2 or 3 tiers)
- Glaze-painting on terracotta pots
- Porcelaine pen and porcelaine paint decoration on white glazed ware
- Pot combined with candle making
- Coil pot
- Fridge magnets
- Wax resist designs
- Sculpture
- Slab cut-outs mounted on wood
- Throwing on pottery wheel
- Sponging Transfers/decals
- Use of clay carbon for transferring a design
- Cloth drape (slip soaked)
- Plate making on a mould with added cut out designs eg leaves (holly at Christmas)
- Pulling and adding a handle
- Marbling decoration using glaze paints (for glazing) or Marbling Inks for varnishing.
- Sgraffito, carving away colour with loop tools
- Terracotta Green Man
- Basket weave pot inside a mould
- Ugly pots. Pot heads. Ugly mugs
- Vegetable mugs: Terracotta mugs half white glaze, veg painted half on white and half on terracotta.
- Birth plate, Wedding plate, celebration plate
- Small Sculpture on a wood and wire stand
- Decoration techniques, Decorating using oxides.
- Still Life … Fruit/veg (in a bowl ?)
- Pottery flowers
- Pottery flower bowl, eg poppy dish
- Slip casting dish
- Using heat press for sublimation printing
- Mosaic (broken pottery) around a mirror tile?
- Terracotta sneaker/welly planter
- Painting on plain white glazed ware, (shop bought) to be re-fired.
- Clay bunting
- 6 napkin rings from pattern-rolled clay
- Makes using coloured (marbled) clays
- Texture patterned patches attached to pot/tile
- Glaze paint terracotta flowerpots
- Stencilling design on sponged background. (make own stencils)
- Leaf dishes, using real leaf for texture
- 3 or 4 joined pinch pots
- Aborigine style design
- Gnomes
- Coiled terracotta busts
- Slab clocks
- Pierced design bowl
Recent Pot and Chatter projects
- Gnomes, inspired by Great British Pottery Throwdown.(on TV)
- Busts. Coiled from Terracotta clay.
- Green men from terracotta clay. Pagan garden ornaments.
- Pottery Bunting, inspired by a couple of local washing lines. Topics chosen: Football, odd socks, clothes lines, geometric shapes/hearts etc etc
- Thrown base for a fruit/cake stand and thrown 'plate'
- Handles Project. To produce a family of bud vases, with faces. To attach a variety of handles carefully using slip. Examples: 'solid shape, 'C' loop, 'D' continuous loop, 'question mark', twisted, 'knob' etc etc. Paint in the style of Picasso. Think bold, think bright, think 'mad'.
- Moulded dishes: Slab of clay, pressed into a plaster mould and decorated.with textures or add-ons.
- Aboriginal Art but with a Cornish twist. Think animals/birds/objects appropriate to Cornwall. Think colours of Cornwall, not just black and white/gold, but sea, sand, moorland etc
Contact Gill for more details 07969 378 052
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