Steven Hill Workshop: Throwing Relaxed, Gestural Forms

Throwing Relaxed, Gestural Forms – Limited to 17 Students!  Must be able to throw with B-Mix 10 Clay!

For Intermediate / advanced students.

As intermediate throwers hone their skills, they often begin to show an affinity for working more precisely. Precision throwing can lead to sublime beauty or to mechanical repetition, leaving pots a bit stiff. As potters develop their eye, along with their technical skills, they sometimes yearn to make forms that breathe – pots that show the plasticity of wet clay, even after they are fired.

While demonstrating, I will discuss design and how it relates to pottery. We will cover the relationships between rims, feet, bellies, handles, and spouts and talk about how our use of simple or compound curves impacts our forms. This workshop will be structured for the potter with basic throwing skills, who would like to make relaxed forms that feel both well designed and more gestural. You won’t be encouraged to unlearn any of your hard-won technique, but rather to expand the ways of gently altering thrown forms.

We will practice alteration techniques with various drinking vessels and possibly a bowl. I will end the workshop with the demo of a larger pitcher or platter.

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