- Explore the many different ways of making clay pots.
- You will be taught step by step through many different pottery techniques including the potter’s wheel, to enable you to produce some wonderful items. You will be able to work at your own place in a relaxed environment. Groups will be small enough for you to have individual attention when needed. To finish off your master piece you will be able to explore the use of coloured glazes and relief decoration.
- You will be surprised at how much fun you will have at producing some wonderful pieces.
- Workshop is from 10am – 4.30pm.
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 55 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 1 day course
- Whatever you want! You can learn about throwing, slab building, press moulding, coiling, slip decorating, sculpture and glazing.
- Using these techniques, you can make mugs, jugs, plates, name plaques, vases, teapots etc.
- Pottery, hand-building and clay-sculpting in our Studio, comfortable accommodation, czech food and beer, beautiful Prague.
- Maximum of 6 student´s will receive individual attention.
- Workshop is from 10am – 1.30pm or more if you wish.
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Total cost: 195 EUR per person - including use of equipment and materials, 2 nights half-board accommodation, transportation during the course, pick up and drop off from airport/bus-railway station and Guided walk through Prague with our professional guide.
- Accompanied children welcome.
- Duration: 2 days course.
- Price: 65 EUR - for 2days course/per person
- This programme has been designed to appeal to students, keen amateurs, hobby potter and professional potters.
- You will experience the special excitement, wheel as a creative tool.
- This is a hands-on making and firing course where students will experience the full ceramic cycle of glazing from making, decorating, finishing and firing pots in unique method.
- Maximum of 6 student´s will receive individual attention.
- Workshop is from 10am – 2pm or more if you wish.
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Total cost: 650 EUR per person - including use of equipment and materials, 7 nights half-board accommodation, transportation during the course, pick up and drop off from airport/bus-railway station, guided walk through Prague with our professional guide, excursion to Konopiste chateau with entrance ticket, guide and transport.
- Accompanied children welcome.
- Duration: 7 days course
- Price: 215 EUR - for 7days course/per person
- learning throwing of medium-large pots, combined shapes, training various kinds of locks and lids, closing pots while throwing
- throwing a cake form, lard barrel, sugar pot and table salt-and- pepper set
- use of decoration by engoba in the full range of possibilities
- Workshop is from 10 am – 3 pm
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 199 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 5 days course
- establishment of the basics of this technique, learning centering on the wheel and shaping of a smaller item, glazing and firing of some of the pots produced
- begins with modelling practice, followed by the basics of throwing on the wheel, decoration with engoba and simple glazing on about 10 items.
- The theoretical part includes acquaintance with choice of materials, the basics of firing and the main defects in glazes
- Workshop is from 10 am – 2 pm
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 215 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 7 days course
- learning the three-dimensional aspect of ceramics through puppets, as preparation for figural sculptures (anatomy of the body and head)
- modelling of a puppet (head, arms), marionettes, animal puppets, preparation of playing plans and figures for table-top games
- study of details of faces to achieve expression, use of patina and engoba,
- Acquaintance with various types of figures -puppets including control mechanisms.
- Workshop is from 10 am – 3 pm
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 215 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 5 days course
- extending the ability to work with slabs to an attractive subject
- emphasis on exact construction and testing further decoration techniques, such as rubbing in oxides, work with engoba, layers of glazes and use of liquid rubber
- wall clocks, mantle clocks, Roman peg calendar
- Workshop is from 10 am – 3 pm
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 90 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 2 days course
- learning precise work with ceramic clay on small pieces and extending the technique of modelling to include combination with other materials, such as glass, wood, natural materials or metal
- modelling and decoration of ceramic jewellery means of joining ceramic material and plate glass, use of semi-precious stones in combination with ceramic materials firing of completely glazed objects
- intarsia and melting-in of glass, patina with hot wax and completion of the jewellery (eyes, locks, threading)
- Workshop is from 10 am – 3 pm
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials (without semi-precious stones) and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 90 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 2 days course
- learning the basics of the main ceramics techniques, such as modelling, extruding, casting and forming, glazing and decoration.
- creation of sets of products including a mug, dishes, a vase, xylophone, box and jewellery; learning professional terminology, drying, firing and equipping a workshop.
- Knowledge obtained in this course forms a basic prerequisite for attending the succeeding courses in all the branches.
- Workshop is from 10 am – 2 pm
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 230 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 7 days course
- learning more complicated work with a slab, three-dimensional plaster forms and ceramic mosaics
- testing a range of decoration techniques under/on/into glazes
- creation of three-dimensional tiles and a bathroom set, a sampler of techniques and a wall mosaic, use of ceramics transfers, colours, wax and latex
- Workshop is from 10 am – 5 pm
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 125 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 2 days course
- learning the technique of building with coils to make large ceramic pots inspired by Greek, Roman and Celtic culture
- understanding the construction of Celtic ornaments and their use for decoration
- creation of free-style copies of Roman, Greek and Celtic ceramic vessels by modelling (and, as appropriate, throwing on the wheel), animal figures and dishes with polished and graphite-decorated surface
- The theoretical part includes a chapter on the history of the Greeks, Romans and Celts
- Workshop is from 10 am – 3 pm
- This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
- Cost: All materials and firing costs are included. Size restriction applies.
- Total cost: 250 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
- Accompanied children welcome
- Duration: 7 days
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