Workshops in Stoke

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Final pieces of Semester 1

Im Back in the new year and ready to present my final pieces form my semester one brief.
Im pretty happy with the results but theres a lot of experimenting to do in the next semester.

Animals taking form

My ceramic critters have just been released from their Bisq. Firing and the slip has worked quite well... Time to glaze these puppies!

Pop up Christmas Craft Shop

Me and the girls at uni have all come together to produce a contemporary craft shop that we popped up in the foyet at Staffordshire university.. we even had some lovely christmas music playing (who dosent like Micheal Buble at this time of year). Christmas is a perfect time to show off the products we have made to sell, there will be some lovely handmade gifts being given on christmas day!
we will be opening again on the 18th of December and hopefully many more times after the festive period.

Look familiar?.. Muddy bear Designs

 My owl money boxes, christmas decorations and brooches...

 Daisys cermic plaques and pots...

 Libbys Jewellry...

 Gemma's crochet brooches..

 Katy's little trinkets...

 Ashleighs jewellry...

Bentely christmas craft workshop

Feeling the festive spirit at Bentely's christmas light turn on, doing crafty christmas themed workshops with the local children. Can safely say they loved it, attracted the attention of practically every child there and even a few mums!
We are now overloaded with pom poms, they proved extremely popular...

 Getting all of the arty stuff together....

Casting....

I am in the process of now slip casting my animals... Both plaster moulds took three days to dry.

 I left the slip in for 40 mins....

 First owl out!... (unfortunately he did not survive, later that day he decided to droop and took a tumble of my studio desk, I definitely need to leave the slip in the mould for an hour next time.)

I left the slip in the fox mould for longer and he is much stronger...

 Time to decorate with coloured slip.