‘Paper clay’ with Sara Kirschen- December 4,5&6th of December

A three-day creative journey into paperclay.

Explore hand-building techniques, play with textures and natural impressions, and discover the expressive possibilities of surface design.

A workshop about making, exploring, and letting the material lead.

This workshop is scheduled on 4,5&6th of December, from 10am to 16pm. This workshop is given in English.

We’ll work with slabs, marks, and materials from nature, allowing forms to slowly take shape. After drying and a first bisque firing (950°C), we move into the final stage: building with a pump technique, experimenting with pigments and crystalline glazes, and finishing with a high-temperature firing.

DAY 1

• introduction
• preparing paperclay
• exercises with cardboard and a balloon

DAY 2

• finishing the objects from day1
• exercises with slabs (construction with smooth slabs and construction with slabs with various impressions and textures, made with tools such as sticks or anything that can imprint a shape, or even leaves or plants that are thick enough to leave a clear impression on the clay, or even fabrics).
• drying of the pieces and bisque firing at 950 °C

DAY 3

• exercises with the pump (construction of an object with paperclay threads)
• glazing, even partial, with crystalline glaze of the pieces fired the night before
• colouring with pigments of the impressions made on the objects the day before
• all pieces will then be fired at a high temperature once they are dry

Included:

• tools&clay
• water, coffee and tea
• bisque firing
• glaze firing of 2 pieces

To bring:

• apron
• notebook and pencil
• lunch
• a sharp personal knife/scalpel
• cloth for rolling out on (cotton fabric)
• 4 A4 sheets cardboard (smooth or textured; recycled cardboard from packages is also fine, as long
  as it is not too thin)
• cloth peg (2x)
• leaves or plants (thick enough to leave a clear impression on the clay)
• container to transport your pieces home

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