Ceramics: Learn to Throw Level 2: Improving Your Skills
11 Week Class | Available
Increase your skills on the wheel with potter and teacher, Natalie Waddell. This loosely structured course is for students wanting to improve their technical and creative skills on and off of the wheel. Build on your skills in throwing, trimming, surface decoration and glazing. Independently directed projects are encouraged with technical and creative support provided by the instructor.
Base Tuition: $590 + Material Fee: $63 = $653 Total _____________________________________________________________________________________
- What You Will Learn:
- Refine and improve the basic techniques to centre clay, create bowls, cylindrical pieces and plates on the wheel
- Increase the scale of your work and experiment with throwing and altering forms.
- Develop independent projects with the guidance of an experienced practicing artist
- Learn to create compound, lidded and altered forms
- Increase the scale of your work
- Explore a variety of decoration techniques such as carving, slip trailing, underglaze and glazes
Natalie Waddell
Natalie is a Canadian ceramic artist and educator based in Toronto. Her practice is driven by the love of process and the exploration of heritage and memory through clay.
A student of the Sheridan College Ceramic Craft and Design program (2003), she is known for her functional and sculptural work and active participation in local ceramic and arts communities and associations including the Toronto Potters Association, the Potters Guild of Hamilton and Region, FUSION: Ontario Clay and Glass Association and NCECA - the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and Craft Ontario. She was featured as one of the two judges on CBC's Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown.