Chandra DeBuse - How to Make and Decorate a Boat Tray
The Ceramic School
In this workshop, I will show you how to make a curved bottom boat tray from start to finish. We will use templates and a soft slabs with a bisque mold. After building the wall and refining the form, we will add texture and wax to the piece. I will show how I use digital drawing to generate ideas for composition and then I will etch a design into the leatherhard clay. Finally, I will share how I inlay underglaze into the incised lines and how I fire and finish my pieces.
When you buy this workshop, you get:
- Watch my Online Workshop
- Bonus Q&A
- Watch my bonus Q&A where I answer questions about my process face-to-face
- Lifetime Access to the Replays
- The workshop and the Q&A are recorded, and you will have lifetime access to it.
- You can watch it online, or download it to your device to watch offline at any time
After this workshop, you could be making amazing work like this:
Chandra DeBuse makes illustrated pottery from her Kansas City studio. She received her MFA from the University of Florida and has presented her work at the Utilitarian Clay Conference, the Functional Ceramics Workshop, at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, and she was an emerging artist through NCECA. Her porcelain forms contain soft volumes and generous spaces for containment. She illustrates her pottery with stylized imagery from the natural world, often making nature's underdogs: squirrels, opossums, snakes, or bugs, the stars of the show.
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