#ceramic workshop

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Ceramic beetles by Ross DeWayne Campbell

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Wahei workshop, Bear Netsuke, 19th century

earthenware

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Medieval Pottery Workshop — With Pieces Still in the Oven — Found in France

A collection of pots sat in a brick oven in northern France, but these weren’t school art projects. These 400-year-old artifacts were buried several feet below the ground and forgotten — until now.

Archaeologists excavated a medieval site in Montreuil-sur-Mer known for its once-flourishing trade over the past year, the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research said in a May 2 news release.

About six feet down, archaeologists uncovered a relatively intact brick oven — and found a forgotten medieval pottery workshop.

The workshop operated from the late 16th century into the early 17th century and primarily made sandstone products for cooking, officials said.

The 400-year-old workshop had two kilns, or ovens for firing pottery. The main furnace was shaped like an almond and made of bricks, archaeologists said. Inside were several almost complete pottery pieces and a variety of pottery waste.

Photos show the inside of the main furnace before and after being dismantled.

The second oven was smaller, older and likely unusable, archaeologists said. The kiln had no traces of heat damage. Instead, the medieval furnace was used as a dumping ground for pottery waste.

Traces of walls and buildings surrounded the medieval workshop, indicating it was likely an enclosed and covered space, officials said. The workshop was eventually abandoned, and other buildings were built on the site in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Archaeologists described the 400-year-old workshop as unprecedented because it is the only workshop of its kind in Montreuil-sur-Mer and the surrounding area.

Montreuil-sur-Mer, also known as Montreuil-on-the-Sea, is along the northern coast of France and a roughly 150-mile drive north from Paris.

By Aspen Pflughoeft.

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Join Us for a Colossal Workshop on Decorative Ceramic Techniques with Sophie Woodrow

Join us for a technique workshop with porcelain artist Sophie Woodrow. In this two-hour session, Woodrow will teach students how to create textured motifs on small pinch pots.

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Some concept art pieces I've made for the Halloween grind

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Did a ceramic painting workshop gifted by a friend. It was so much fun! I barely finished by chip and dip/cake stand in the 3 hours, here's hoping it turns out as bright as intended.

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Week 1: Ceramics, Markmaking and Explorations

I started by markmaking with ink based on words relevant to my theme. Then I used a viewfinder to find shapes of interest.

From here I stared to interpret these in three dimensions by making paper constructs.

Then I translated these into clay.

This exercise gave me a good base to build off and made me really consider how best to make my theme work with ceramics.

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Tissier Pottery and ceramics workshop in Nabeul, Tunisia

French vintage postcard

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the thing about being up to ceramics stuff nearly every day for the last several months means that now that I have no ceramics to do, I can only think about the fact that I want to do ceramics.

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Movement - Ceramics Workshop

This Monday I took part in the Ceramics workshop to further my Movement project. After a quick demo on mark-making, we began to brainstorm verbs and adjectives to relate to the mark-making process, I chose verbs such as twist, bend, expand, grow and overtake.

I then used some primary resources I had gathered such as branches, ivy and rose petals as well as some mark-making tools available in the studio such as a pinecone, a bamboo stick and a sponge. We used ink and A2 paper and started the mark-making process. I used water to help the marks and shapes expand and grow on the page, I also twisted and bent the wooden tools I had to create different marks too, I pressed the rose petals onto the page which made some of the colour transfer through onto the paper also.

All of these processes were very interesting and they broadened my ideas for how to further progress my movement project. I look forward to continuing this elective over the next two weeks.

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Whyyyyyy do ceramics courses have to be so expensive aughhhhh it's like they're gatekeeping the entire art from meeeeeeeeee

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Me at work.

Soundtrack E. Simoni Feuer Tanz.

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I wanna try some new art/craft thing like screenprinting or ceramics or knitting but I fear I might lose interest in it after a while like I did when I tried jewelry making

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COLLABORATIVE ART!!!