Online workshops (e-courses)
Online classes by category
- Pottery wheel throwing (Potters can choose between porcelain and stoneware for the online wheel thrown workshops)
- Pottery handbuilding (The hand working ceramists can do the online porcelain classes, but can first start with the pottery for beginners workshops)
- Porcelain - Dinnerware (How to make porcelain dinnerware. The wheel throwers will throw and trim everything on the wheel, while the handbuilders will use different templates and other hand build tools for the for the handbuilding dinnerware)
- Clay teapots (All the teapot online workshops will teach potters how to make functional teapots, but will challenge the potter with designs and decorating)
- Pottery - Glazing and decoration (From beginners to advanced may benefit from the glazing and firing e-courses)
- Woodworking - Segmenting (Woodworkers who want to get into closed segmenting, we have a complete online class for woodworking with segments)
- Business - All Artists Making a Living (All artists need to earn a living, and this class helps every artist to use the success stories to make it their own)
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Our online classes
Our classes are pre-recorded workshops. The videographer was the only student in the class. The videos show details of techniques from different angles and zoom into actions to give each student a front row seat in the class. We convert a 5-days in-person workshop to a 6-weeks online class and students have 4 additional weeks for reviewing. Shorter time frame classes are available. Our instructors are professional and established artists who are available to answer questions and assist students in the execution of the projects. |
Porcelain workshops
Curtis Benzle takes his art students into the challenging world of colored clay, and shows them how to do neriage, nerikomi and mishima. Curt shares his Benzle porcelain with students and helps them in getting translucent bowls.
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If you understand the character of porcelain clay, then you will be able to alter and carve and get the best out of the porcelain - the Diva of clay. This is a detailed online class with wheel throwing and handbuilding included by Antoinette Badenhorst.
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Antoinette Badenhorst shows several porcelain hand build techniques and help students to push themselves and the clay to the limit.
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David Voorhees has over 40 year of ceramic experience and shares tips and techniques in throwing porcelain on the wheel. Ceramic artists will learn different decorating techniques and will under his guidance do several challenging projects.
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Porcelain dinnerware is also called chinaware. Antoinette shows how to throw different fine art porcelain dinner set pieces in this online class. It is packed with information and opens the door to new fields for any potter who wants to supply quality dinnerware to chefs and restaurants.
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Potters who not like the pottery wheel, or those who enjoy handbuilding more, there is a way how they can make excellent porcelain dinnerware without throwing skills on the wheel. Antoinette shares her own templates with students and shows hand built dinnerware that looks like wheel thrown dinnerware.
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Stoneware workshops
There are always projects that challenge artists, and Nan Rothwell is using this motivation to bring several difficult throwing skills into the projects included in this online throwing class.
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Handbuiding pottery is a great class if you want to get into ceramics. It explains clay, decorating, glazing and firing and helps students with questions of how to set-up a pottery studio. Antoinette shares her real live examples with potters.
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Decorating, glazing and firing
Antoinette Badenhorst teaches potters all the basics about glazing. She is assisted by Lynn Barnwell, owner of Hinkle Creek Potteries who explains every thing needed to know about commercial glazes for the studio potter.
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In the Shino glazing class, Connie Christensen shares shino recipes and shows students how she decorates her pots to get the best colors in the gas kiln.
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Marcia Selsor demonstrates how to build a portable raku kiln, and explains and teaches how to do obvara, raku, and saggar firings.
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Painting workshops
Marie EVB Gibbons is our sculpture and painting artist who shows students how to paint with acrylics on clay. The class is called post-fired finishes, but this decorating style is also known as cold finishes.
Paul Lewing brings his fine art students into the colorful world of china painting. He shows how to make big murals, paintings and back splashes with porcelain tiles, and also shows how easy it is to paint on bowls. Learn about mediums and gums, lusters and paste, crayons and decals, oriental sumi painting and silk screening.
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Although Marie EVB Gibbons past away, her legacy and teachings go on. She explained how to do black washing for achieving great textures and emotions, and round it off with her individual style of mix and match painting with acrylics. Meet and mingle with her former students and learn from them as well.
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