Did you manage to catch our LIVE STREAM pottery tutorials on our Facebook page during the February 1/2 term?
Sarah and Jon had great fun showing us how to make a coil pot monster on Monday, a pot on the potter’s wheel on Wednesday and a clay fish on Friday!
Don’t worry if you missed them, all three videos are now up there on the Eastnor Pottery Facebook page for you to enjoy and ‘make along’ forevermore!
During the February half term we’re broadcasting a short series of FREE & LIVE how-to-do pottery tutorials on our Facebook page.
Mon 15 Feb 11.00am Monster Monday – how to make a coil pot monster.
Wed 17 Feb 11.00am Wheel Wednesday – the potter’s wheel.
Fri 19 Feb 11.00am Fish on Friday- how to make a clay fish.
See you there! 🎥 xx
It’s HOME LEARNING week here at Eastnor Pottery!
Over the next five days we are going to sign posting you to our fabulous and FREE ‘how to make pottery’ video tutorials over on our YouTube channel.
Each day we’ll be highlighting a different video and making technique:
MONDAY 18 January – Coil pot owl.
TUESDAY 19 January – Slab built house.
WEDNESDAY 20 January – Potter’s wheel.
THURSDAY 21 January – Pinch pot monster
FRIDAY 22 January – Pottery fish.
In the absence of a kiln, you can let your creations dry and then seal them with a mixture of PVA glue and water (50/50 mix) – a couple of coats should do the job. Once the PVA has dried, you can paint your creations with acrylic paint, or whatever you can lay your hands on!
Even if you don’t have any proper clay, the projects work well with play dough to.
Happy Making! Oh and if you get chance, we’d love to see what you get up to. Just send us a photo of your finished work to any of our social media platforms and we’ll share and comment on your creativity. We’re @eastnorpottery on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Once a week we are visited by a group of adults with learning disabilities to work with clay and enjoy the creative and unique atmosphere of our artists studio.
We absolutely love these sessions and enjoy the challenge of inventing new, exciting and appropriate projects for them to participate in.
Rob has had a life long fascination with giraffes and so we set him and his support worker the task of making a giraffe tile panel.
Here’s a pictorial record of Rob’s making process.
Under normal circumstances (remember them!?) we’d have been up to our eyeballs in clay at the brilliant Maker Shack as part of Cheltenham Science Festival.
We’ve been involved in the Makershack since its inauguration in 2017. Last year we encouraged visitors to make a press molded brick, using real brick clay from Coleford Brick and Tile Company based in the Forest of Dean.
The bricks were assembled into a giant castle and we worked with nearly 10,000 people over the x6 days of the festival! – that’s a shed load of bricks! The sheer volume of visitors meant we had to build a fresh structure each day, deconstructing the building at the close and re-claiming the material for the next morning.
Athough the Makershack was primarily aimed at Primary school aged students – (and man, there must have been very few Gloucestershire schools who didn’t visit the show), on Friday night grown-ups got to play with the technology in a special after-hours session between 8pm and 10pm.
Although it’s full-on, we love the #makershack and look forward to sharing the scientific benefits of engaging with clay, with festival visitors in 2021.
