Antoinette's online ceramic workshops

Antoinette Badenhorst presents several hands-on ceramic workshops and pottery classes at TeachinArt, the online school of art.
Do Antoinette's online workshops from anywhere in the world, on your own time, in your own place.
Antoinette started teaching potters from beginners to advanced levels online from her own studio in 2014. ​Koos and Antoinette Badenhorst started an Online School of Art in 2014 under PorcelainbyAntoinette but soon had to open a separate forum to run it on. TeachinArt, the online school of art was formed. It keeps growing at a decent pace. 
The Badenhorst couple is breaking ground while they are reaching students in countries around the world. With a growing number of instructors and classes, TeachinArt is becoming an essential part of art education. ​With almost 40 years of teaching experience with potters and students on beginner to advanced levels in various countries across the world, Antoinette has the ability to teach in front of a camera and make students feel she is talking to them personally. She adopted ways to describe the actions that potters need to know and understand in order to be successful.

Understanding porcelain

​To work successfully with porcelain, require some understanding of the character of the medium. Some porcelains are easier to work with than others, but Antoinette addresses a general approach to work with the "Diva"
During this online workshop presented by TeachinArt, she explains the differences between porcelain and other clay bodies and why porcelain needs special attention when fired in the kiln.
She provides detailed instruction on throwing, altering and carving porcelain bowls. Learn how to create the fine translucent vessels that gave ​Antoinette international recognition.

Porcelain handbuilding

The hand building porcelain e-course offers the opportunity for potters to learn to hand build porcelain successfully.
Antoinette addresses the characteristics of porcelain clay bodies and teaches her students what to expect and how to prevent porcelain from cracking.
She touches on paper clay porcelain, or shortly paper porcelain and present techniques that is suitable for porcelain.
Most of her porcelain envelopes were started out in a press mold. Antoinette teaches her potters exactly how to make these molds, either with Plaster of Paris or to create bisque molds.

Handbuilding porcelain dinnerware

Hand building porcelain dinnerware is a discovery process and one of the e-learning workshops that Antoinette enjoys very much.
Potters will get the opportunity to learn to design dinnerware that is not only food safe and microwave safe, but that is stack-able on kitchen shelves and in dishwashers.
She teaches her students about glazes suitable for porcelain and she show them how to spray glaze fine translucent porcelain. The templates provided in this workshop put students well on their way to create their own dinnerware.
​This workshop is also suitable for potters that work with smooth earthenware or stoneware clay bodies.

Wheel thrown porcelain dinnerware

During this online workshop Antoinette teaches her students to throw porcelain dinnerware on the pottery wheel.
Instead of having a similar approach as working with stoneware, she addresses the fine qualities that porcelain offer and show potters how they can obtain translucency by throwing and trimming with the video camera showing every detail of her hand movements.
While paying special attention to food safety demands, Antoinette teaches her students how to fire porcelain to make sure the work does not warp. She show in detail what is needed to add handles and knobs that will not crack loose in the fire.

Pinching teapots for beginners

Pinching teapots for the beginner is a class in which with earthenware clay is used, but it is also suitable to use stoneware clay.
A fun project in which Antoinette takes the early potter step by step through the pinching process. Every part of this teapot is pinched, which include 2 pinched cups to go with the teapot. She pay special attention of how to pinch a teapot spout and lid and the project ends with a painted tray to hold everything in one place.
She show her students online how to paint and decorate this teapot with commercial glazes and under glazes, providing them with basic skills that they can keep building on.

Glazing made easy

Glazing made Easy is a class for beginner to intermediate potters. 
The workshop starts by explaining to potters what a glaze is and what the main ingredients in glazes do in the fire.
Antoinette discusses cones and heat work in a simple way.
Learn how to limit glaze dripping, how to prevent crawling and other glaze flaws. She discusses brushable glazes, spray glazing, how to dip and pour glazes, and how to glaze large objects with a small bucket of glaze.
Learn the first glaze mixing methods and how to obtain the right gravity with the glazes you have on hand, while you learn to enjoy decorating with glaze layering and other glaze techniques. ​

Wheel thrown teapots

All potters want to make a teapot at least once in their life. In this workshop Antoinette teaches her students with stoneware clay how to throw a teapot on the potters wheel.
She pay attention to the teapot body with a well placed spout that  provides a good flowing stream of tea. She show potters how a lid is made that will stay in place when the teapot is tilted. 
A balanced handle is also on the discussion list to help potters understand how all the elements of a teapot should work together to obtain a well made functional teapot.
This online workshop is loaded with information that will not disappoint the early ceramic artist.

Handbuilding pottery for beginners

"My hand building pottery for beginners online workshop has been very popular all over the world. It is a short and highly affordable class for early beginners. Learn to pinch professionally: that is making, correcting mistakes and finishing off the clay professionally. I am right there along the way, ready to give constructive advice on form, spouts, handles, teapot lids and how to balance these elements with each other.
Work at your own leisure, from any place in the world and ask your questions in an email. I will respond to your questions, any way you ask them. No question too easy or difficult."

Information about TeachinArt, the online school of art

TeachinArt.com is an Online School of Art, founded by Koos and Antoinette Badenhorst to expand opportunities for artists to learn from experienced and successful art and craft instructors online. Antoinette started with porcelain, but the need for basic pottery instruction took her back to her early days of working with earthenware and stoneware clay. The workshops long since expanded beyond the instruction of Antoinette.

Antoinette takes her hands-on workshops and ceramic studies to the internet where pottery students from across the world can learn pottery and porcelain techniques through online classes. She shares her in-depth knowledge of porcelain, stoneware and earthenware clay bodies with potters who will learn from her as if they are attending one of her workshops in person. As a passionate pottery instructor Antoinette holds no information back, but share all she knows.

Get a front row seat while she demonstrates her pottery techniques on videos and teaches potters and hobbyists how to master porcelain and other clay mediums. During the class period, ceramic art students have direct in-person access to Antoinette. She answers all questions in a virtual or simulated workshop environment.

The benefits for online learning are amazing for students and instructors. Students who cannot afford to attend the in-person workshops can typically afford the online classes. The classes are available to anyone that has internet access through any technological device, including to an international audience.

These online videos show clear details of each process, often from multiple positions. Unlike a hands- on workshop where many distractions may water a class down, or where there is not enough time to discuss more details, these classes can be done without disturbances at the pace the student wants to follow, at a time they wish to do the class, without loosing any details.  

While the class is running, students have unlimited opportunity to review videos. They receive PDF documents with questions and answers of all student questions as well as reviews and any other material that will make these pottery classes a great experience.
Follow the pottery online workshops from any device:  Desktop, Laptop, iPad, iPhone , android or related technology.