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CERAMICS CLASSES
During these courses the different working cycles are experimented and the students will have a large assortment of supplies, equipment and firing kilns at their disposal. There is also video documentation and a bibliography on the history of ceramic art. For this reason the courses can be followed both by beginners and advanced students.
Classes are offered, on request, in periods different than the ones listed; for info & price please email info@culturalitaly.com
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During these courses the different working cycles are experimented and the students will have a large assortment of supplies, equipment and firing kilns at their disposal. There is also video documentation and a bibliography on the history of ceramic art. For this reason the courses can be followed both by beginners and advanced students.
Classes are offered, on request, in periods different than the ones listed; for info & price please email info@culturalitaly.com
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MAIN CLASSES MENU | GLASS | PAINTING | SCULPTURE | OTHER CLASSES
| HAND BUILDING, USE OF GLAZED AND FIRING TECHNIQUES The course covers all the basic techniques for hand building shapes in clayworking, firing and decorating ceramics, and lays the necessary foundations for exploring its many possibilities. The course is carried out through practical experience into the initial stages - properties and preparation of the clay, hand-building techniques (modelling, slab, coil etc.), characteristics and application of colour (engobes, oxides, glazes) and an introduction to firing techniques. At the end of the course students will be given useful information for setting up their own workshop and all ceramics produced during the course can be taken home.
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- from March 20th to March 25th - from March 30th to April 6th - from April 27th to May 4th - from June 22nd to June 29th - from July 20th to July 27th - from August 2nd to August 9th - from August 10th to August 17th - from August 24th to August 31st - from August 31st to September 7th - from October 26th to November 2nd EURO 690 (second week EURO 550) EURO 540 (Easter period only March 20th - 25th) RESERVE by phone or online |
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| COLOR IN CERAMICS (various decoration techniques in high and low temperatures) The course deals with the techniques of colouring all kinds of ceramic surfaces, developing the matter under the design and technical point of view. The various possibilities that ceramic materials offer will be studied in relationship to the chromatic and tactile quality of surfaces and their harmony with the shapes. The following techniques will be held: - Hand building and application of textures, etching, relieves, study of different graphic- solutions. - Engobes: row applications, glazed engobes on fired surfaces, etching and area filling. - Ceramic coatings with calcareous clays for high temperature: study of colouring and techniques of superimposition.. - Painting with colours and glazes: brush, airbrush, hand pump; brushing technique. - Ceramic pastels: making and use. All the range of temperatures will be used: from 1200° to 700°.
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- from March 20th to March 25th - from March 30th to April 6th - from April 27th to May 4th - from June 22nd to June 29th - from July 20th to July 27th - from August 2nd to August 9th - from August 10th to August 17th - from August 24th to August 31st - from August 31st to September 7th - from October 26th to November 2nd EURO 690 EURO 540 (Easter period only March 20th - 25th) RESERVE by phone or online |
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| RAKU AND WOOD REDCTION TECHNIQUES (pit fire, saw dust, bucchero, naked raku) This course aims at approaching the various expressive shapes of today's ceramics through the use of ancient techniques renewed and enriched with new experimentations. All the firing techniques held in this course belong to the family of the oxygen reduction firings through wooden materials: the chromatic effects produced on the surface of the objects have the peculiarity to be partially unforeseeable: this means that they assume the aspect of a primitive fashion that strongly influence the nature of the shapes. These techniques can be divided in two groups: - reductions on the glaze (Raku and naked Raku), done with a gas firing: raku is based on quick firing of glazed objects then reduced during the cooling process. - the reduction techniques applied on terracotta, without using glazes: Bucchero (the ancient technique of Etruscan origin), exploring all the different possibilities of making reduction and burnishing the surface, pit fire, saw dust fire. These techniques require that surfaces are always prepared with "terre sigillate" and burnishing process. The clays will be strongly refractory. All the pieces will be built during the course with the different techniques of cooling, slab and wheel. During the course will be prepared all kind of glazes for Raku firing; naked technique will also be learned. Different degrees of smoking will be tested: saw dust and wood. All row materials will be analysed and tested in their various uses. Will be followed the complete process of preparation of terre sigillate. Will also be learned how to built and conduct a gas kiln. Particular care will be own to shapes and surfaces, that will be preferably simple and near to the regular solid shapes, to emphasize this kind of effects. A large room will be given, in the projecting works, to the research of individual creative capacities.
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- from March 20th to March 25th - from March 30th to April 6th - from April 27th to May 4th - from June 22nd to June 29th - from July 20th to July 27th - from August 2nd to August 9th - from August 10th to August 17th - from August 24th to August 31st - from August 31st to September 7th - from October 26th to November 2nd EURO 690 EURO 540 (Easter period only March 20th - 25th) RESERVE by phone or online |
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| THROWING ON THE WHEEL Through a series of guided practical exercises, the initial stages of throwing are taught by a well-tested method in which students acquire the correct position for the technique. Students are given the opportunity to throw on an electric wheel and to learn the basic steps which will allow them to continue alone. During the course students will also learn how to finish off pieces by the use of additionto hand-building or moulds.
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- from March 20th to March 25th - from March 30th to April 6th - from April 27th to May 4th - from June 22nd to June 29th - from July 20th to July 27th - from August 2nd to August 9th - from August 10th to August 17th - from August 24th to August 31st - from August 31st to September 7th - from October 26th to November 2nd EURO 690 EURO 540 (Easter period only March 20th - 25th) RESERVE by phone or online |
