New dates to be confirmed: Friday to Sunday from 10am to 7pm
What do fine filaments made of stoneware and chocolate cookies have in common? An unusual ceramist artist without limits in his experiments …
Alberto Bustos in ElTorn: Filaments and textures
395,00€
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This is what you’ll learn in this course
The proposal of the ceramic artist Alberto Bustos in this workshop is to teach us how to hand build and texture the clay directly with our hands, adding unusual materials to the process (such as cookies, for example!).
With the technique of hand tossing, we’ll make slabs and filaments of different shapes. We’ll create stony textures with cookie pieces, using pigments and glazes.
We’ll learn to apply to all these pigments in powder or liquid forms, using brushes, toothbrush, sieve, etc.
All these processes are not only applicable to sculptural pieces: they can inspire you to build and decorate functional ware.
Program
day 1
- Video presentation.
- Preparation of the slabs without mechanical means (by hand tossing technique).
- Application of colored pigments mixed with opaque transparent glazed powder
- Realization of different pieces applying the previous processes;
- Explanation of the hand building of square filaments with the hand tossing technique
- Application of pigments with transparent glaze, using a toothbrush
- Explanation of texturing with power.
Day 2:
- Explanation of stone texture using pieces and bits of pigmented cookies.
- Sharing the experience of using organic materials, such as raw pasta, sugar cubes, etc. on to the slab
- construction of a cube (using slabs made by hand tossing) and applying cookie texture.
- explanation of the building flat filaments by hand tossing and
application of pigments mixed with transparent glaze, in powder and on wood - assembly of filaments on the cube.
Day 3:
- explanation of the building rectangular filaments by hand tossing
- Use of the wooden cylinder in the construction of various sculptural or functional pieces
- Application of pigments mixed with opaque transparent powder, use of wood and brush
- Possible variations of the construction technique with multiple cylinders and / or quadrangular wooden strip
- Opening the kiln and discussing the final results.
Price: 395 €/all included.
Schedule: New dates to be confirmed. Friday to Sunday from 10am to 7pm (with 1 hour snack break).
THIS COURSE INCLUDES:
- Materials
- tools, firings and glazes
The course will take place with a minimum of 8 students. If you have signed up and paid and the course doesn’t take place, we’ll refund you the total amount paid. ElTornBarcelona cannot be responsible for procurement or losses incurred on travel arrangements. **Please take this into consideration when booking your flights and accommodation.
