Description
Introduction to Brush Making
Paul Wisotzky
Saturday, June 20, 2 pm-5 pm
$50. $42.50 with 15% Cape Cod Potters dicsount. Please use coupon code CCP upon checkout and email proof of membership to sarah@meetinghouseclay.com
Participant Skill Level: No prior brush making experience/skill required. Open to all.
Materials Provided: Instructor provides all tools and materials.
Workshop Description:
In this fun three-hour workshop, you will learn how to make brushes for decorating pottery. Brushes can be used to apply slips, underglazes, glazes, oxide washes, and wax resist. We will use several types of animal hair – deer, coyote, fox, skunk – for the brush heads and bamboo for the handles. Materials will be provided to adorn the brushes and add loop handles. Instruction will also include how to make your own brush handles with clay. All materials are provided and you will leave the workshop with several brushes you made and can use immediately. No experience necessary. There is a materials fee of $5 per brush payable to the instructor via Venmo, credit card or cash at the conclusion of the workshop.
Paul Wisotzky is a studio potter and educator from Truro, Massachusetts. He makes functional pottery from porcelain and stoneware and fires his work in soda and reduction atmospheres at his studio Blueberry Lane Pottery. Paul teaches at the Harvard University Ceramics Program and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Paul developed a process of digitally designing and fabricating sponge stamps using graphic design software and a laser cutter. You can learn about this process and how to use sponge stamps from Paul in a recently released instructional video available through the Ceramic Arts Network and CLAYflicks. Paul uses the stamps to decorate his pottery as well as teaching others how to use them in his workshops and classes. He is a founder and co-producer of SodaPosium a national educational gathering and celebration of soda firing. Residencies include Penland School of Craft, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Red Lodge Clay Center.*Refunds will not be given within one week of the beginning of class. A $25 processing fee will be retained from any refund. If a class must be cancelled due to low enrollment, a full refund will be given.
