Deaf Visions. The A-B-C of porcelain

Today’s workshop was called: Deaf Visions, the ABC of porcelain.

I arrived at 10.00 to prepare for my workshop which starts at 2pm. Before the workshop I attended John and Tomotos art talks at 11.30 and 12.30. Then it was my turn at 2.00pm.

I wanted the students to understand how to enhance their creative work. The workshop went fairly well, not only was I delighted to have had the chance to learn some new art skills but also I enjoyed their participation.

It is a pleasure to do a workshop with them. Working with clay, drawing and painting, is good for children and their parents.

The following are verbatim quotes from my workshop.

2-2.10pm "Before we go to the workshop room, we will go to see the Sevres display to have a quick look and choose which one you would like to copy onto paper plates." (Give out clipboards, coloured pencils and paper plates) 10 minutes only.)

2.15-2.45pm.
"During the break, please go to see Betty Woodman’s work before coming back at 2.45."

2.45-4.00pm.
"What do you think this looks like? We would like to make a model using different materials: - cardboard, paper, and modelling clay.Paint a picture on the flat card side of the ceramic, colour it from your emotions.Next take the sheet of paper and roll into a tube. Please don’t paint the tube now.Then fix the painted card to the tube using glue stick or staples making the completed pot.Make a clay base on the board because it is easy to paint round around.Use white cocktail sticks to join the base and the pot together by sticking the sticks into the clay base, then paint."

© Sheng-Kai Chou 2006