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
Week 1: Hand building: an understanding

Day 1: Review Porcelain
  • History of porcelain
  • Characteristics of porcelain
  • Why hand building and not wheel throwing?

Picture
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.
Picture
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
Picture
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.