November Workshop | 2 hours + Glazing

Tree-ts

Join us for this 2-visit* clay workshop!

Fall in love with ceramics with this beautiful Christmas tree shaped stoneware clay dish. *Glazing is not included in the building price for all 2 part workshops.

November | Tree-ts | 2 Hr Instructor Guided Workshop

$35.00

Workshop Details

The holidays are the time to indulge in the most tasty snacks and treats! This year, create your own beautiful tree platter to fill with your favourite things and share with your friends and loved ones.

After learning clay hand building techniques to shape your dishware, return to the studio to add a green layer of glaze! It's time to create beautiful objects that will bring joy to your home!

Timeline

1. Build & Sculpt: 2 hours of instruction, stay up to 30 min after to finesse. Create using our high fire clay and we will dry and fire the clay in the kiln.

2. Glaze: Return to the studio to add the beautiful glazes. Book at least one week after your build date. We recommend booking 1 hour, depending on the amount of detail :)

3. Pick Up: We will fire it again in the kiln. In approximately 10 days after glazing, it’ll be ready for pick up.

Size

1" H × 9" L × 7" W (at the widest point)

Techniques & Materials

Techniques: handbuilding, slab building, glazing

Materials: stoneware clay, underglaze, clear high fire glaze

Stoneware Clay 101

The most important thing to remember when working with clay is to relax and enjoy the process of making hand made art! Clay is like magical mud for creating fantastic pottery and cool ceramics. First, you shape it into whatever you want. Then it has to air dry and go into a super-hot oven called a kiln, where it gets fired at really high temperatures (around 1,200°C!). After it’s been fired once it’s ready for the colourful and clear glazes! Finally. it gets fired again to cure the glazes to the clay. 

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."

—Burton Hillis