How to hand build with porcelain clay

A Porcelain Hand building Online workshop with Antoinette Badenhorst.
Learn to work with porcelain in this fact packed porcelain workshop.

​Duration of class
6 weeks formal video classes, 4 weeks reviewing
10 weeks total viewing

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Week 1: Hand building: an understanding

Day 1: Review Porcelain

• History of porcelain
• Characteristics of porcelain
• Why hand building and not wheel throwing?

Press molded, altered and carved to translucency. Available in the Shopping gallery.

Day 3: Preparation and tools

• Which tools and equipment works best for porcelain clay
• What is a suitable Porcelain clay

Day 4: Question and answers

• All students get the questions and answers for the week via email

Day 2: The Porcelain Diva and hand building

• What is considered as hand building?
• Can hand building be combined with wheel throwing?
• How does porcelain hand building differ from hand building with other clay bodies like stoneware and earthenware?
• Translucent porcelain building
• Porcelain works like a clay, but when fired becomes glass like.

Press molded porcelain plate with a hand formed bowl. Available in the shopping gallery.

​Week 2: Porcelain: let the Diva work
Day 1: Review week 1
Day 2: Clay preparation

• Make it work for hand building
• Which hand building methods are most suitable for porcelain?
• Basic porcelain rules for hand building

Day 3: A potpourri of examples that we examined in my studio
Day 4: Questions and answers

​Week 3: Coiling and pinching
Day 1: Review week 2 
Day 2: Coiling and Pinching 

• Basics about coils

         * understand the structure
         * understand approaches

• Pinch and build a vessel
• Score and build an object

Day 3: Finishing the projects
Day 4: Questions and answers

Press molded porcelain, altered and carved.

Week 4: Scrape and Shape 
Day 1: Review week 3
Day 2: Extruding without an extruder

• Creating home made dies
• Hand extrude

Day 3: Building a pot

• Let your homemade dies  work
• Creating a vase

Day 4: Questions and answers ​

Week 5: Making molds
Day 1: Review week 4
Day 2: Press molding clay

• Pressing considerations
• Building a picture

Day 3: What objects can I create from a basic mold? 

• Make your molds versatile
• Build a vessel
• Finishing.

Day 4: Questions and answers ​

​Week 6: All about slabs
Day 1: Review week 5
Day 2: Slab building

• Preparing and throwing a slab 
  
• Leather hard slabs
• Thin and pliable – soft slabs
  

Day 3: Continue slabs

• A container
• Translucent object

Day 4: Questions and answers
Day 5 Review week 6

My classes are loaded with tips and techniques - With 40 years of ceramics experience, I can assist potters in almost any clay related topic.