Event website: https://bookwhen.com/scottishpotters#focus=ev-susy-20250215000000
2 Day Animal Sculpture, led by Jeremy James.
At Mud Station 19 East Norton Place, Edinburgh, EH7
Saturday 15th Feb 10 to 4:30 with 1hr lunch
Sunday 16th Feb 10 - 4:30 with 1hr lunch
Teas, coffee and water provided by Mud Station, bring your own lunch or money to order in or collect from local cafes
Price: £180 BOOK
This workshop will look at how you can make a sculpture of an animal in clay, suitable to being fired and glazed at a later date.
The aims of the workshop are to to have an enjoyable and creative 2 days, to make at least one sculpture and to give you the skills to go on to make further sculptures in clay. The particular animal we will look at will be a hare. If however you have a desire to make an alternative ‘creature’, that may be possible, this can be explored at the workshop.
Jeremy will show you how to make drawings and maquettes in preparation to using ‘hollow building’ for eventual sculpture.
It would be beneficial if you can gather a few items before the workshop, that I have listed below. Please do not worry if you can’t get all of these, the lovely thing about sculpture with clay, is that we need very little!
Have a think about what the hare (or other!), you will make, might be like, ie. size, attitude, whether it will be naturalistic, abstract or somewhere between the two. If you wish, make some drawings to think through these ideas. Thinking ahead about what you will make is an important part of sculpting, mull on it, play with several ideas in your head…enjoy the process….but then, keep an open mind at the workshop as to how these ideas might change and evolve.
I’m really looking forward to meeting you all and having 2 full days of creativity and practical making in clay
Essential things:
- Photographs / drawings / ideas of your subject! These can be your own or unashamedly pinched from magazines, books, or Google. the more the better!
- Something to draw with. Sketchbook or sheets of cartridge paper and pencils or charcoal.
- Modelling tools. Many folks have modelling tools that are a bit too small- go big if you can. Flat, spatula shaped tools are probably most useful. If you like whittling in wood, make some yourself! If you are near an Ikea or a good kitchen shop, you can get a good range of wood spoons and spatulas. These can be very good for sculpting and can be adapted to suit the shapes you need in your own making. Mud Station will also have a bunch of tools on hand if you don't have any to bring along.
- A couple of different size and shaped ‘loop tools’ like these are useful. Once again, these can be homemade if you like doing that sort of thing. Example - https://potterycrafts.co.uk/products/neo-heavy-duty-round-turning-tool. Mud Station will have loop tools available
- A means of transporting your sculpture home. Sturdy cardboard box with packing like newspaper, bubblewrap
- Apron or overalls
Mud Station will provide:
- Wooden rolling pin. The longer the better, without ‘handles’ - you can bring your own (kitchen shop or Ikea again)
- A Flat wooden board to make your sculpture on. Needs to be a little bigger than your piece. Anything flat and reasonably thick will be fine, if you’re looking to the future and equipping yourself well…go for 10-12mm marine grade plywood…don’t wax or varnish it. (Wood yards often have smaller pieces / offcuts available - you can bring your own.
- Plastic bin/pedal liners to wrap your sculpture up. - You can bring your own
- Turntable
