Community Creative Center

Do you struggle with surface design and decoration on your ceramics? Professional Potter Jenny Dowd will help you get inspired and teach you new techniques to bring your surfaces to life!

10am – 4pm with a lunch break

This one day workshop will cover the basics of decoration techniques for bisque fired clay as well as how to transfer imagery from paper (or your imagination) to the side of a pot.

We will cover:

What is glaze? What is underglaze?

Creating and layering imagery

Painting with underglaze – a layered watercolor effect

Underglaze pencils and applicators

Applying stain and glaze to texture

Underglaze transfers

Glaze application including wax resist designs

Troubleshooting glaze application

How to make your own waterslide decals

Students are encouraged to bring bisque pots and test tiles of their favorite clay. Bisque tiles and small cups or bowls made of porcelain and stoneware will also be provided.We will start with a quick discussion of issues students have had with glazing and decorating– this will inform the order and direction of the rest of the class.

Before lunch break: All the ways to use underglaze and underglaze products on your bisque. How to make stencils for underglaze and glaze.

After lunch break: Glazing! Wax resist designs and stencils, different ways to apply glazes. How to layer glaze with decoration. Applying glaze and stains to texture (textured tiles will be available.)

Demonstrate and discuss decals (after glaze.)