Color Clay 1:
Core Concepts of Color Clay
2-Day Workshop

Saturday January 30 2027, 9AM-4PM
Sunday January 31 2027, 9AM - 4 PM

Ready to move beyond surface decoration and build with color from the inside out?

Color Clay 1: Core Concepts

The beginning of your Color Clay journey.

This two-day workshop serves as the Core Curriculum for our Color Clay program and is required before enrolling in any Foundations, Level 2, or Level 3 Color Clay classes.

Working with our custom premixed colored clays, you'll discover how color can become an integral part of the clay itself rather than simply a surface treatment. Through a series of guided exercises and small projects, you'll explore gradients, marbling, color blending, laminated color layers, and basic clay canes while building a personal library of reference samples.

Along the way, you'll gain an understanding of how colored clay behaves, how colors interact, and how to create clean, vibrant effects that will become the building blocks for future studies in relief painting, slip work, cane building, neriage, nerikomi, sculptural applications, and wheel-thrown color clay techniques.

Whether your interest lies in functional pottery, sculpture, or surface design, Color Clay 1 provides the essential skills needed to confidently move through the rest of the curriculum.

Color Clay 1 is required before all Foundations, Level 2, and Level 3 Color Clay classes.

PLEASE NOTE...
Two purchases are required for registration in this Workshop... The Registration Fee plus A Student Supply Kit. Please include both before checking out.

Member Workshop Registration is $200

Non-Member Workshop Registration is $250

Required Student Supply Kit - Sold Separately

3 Color* Student Supply Kit - $100 + tax

• Color Kit of 3 basic colors- PREMIXED!...red, yellow, blue (1 lb each)
• 1 Color - 2 oz Pigment unmixed + air tight zipper bag
• 1 Canvas board for Mason stain chips made in class
• Fabric strips for running Mason stain colored clay through pasta roller
• Workshop notes and folder

Course Overview...

Day 1: Color Clay Foundations

• Brief pigment mixing demo/exercise
• Gradients
• Marbling
• Blending
• Laminating

Day 2: Surface Design with Color

• Color Clay Canes - Basic style
• Inlay Effects
• Putting it all together into a completed vessel

Required Student Supplies...

Links for priced items will be in follow-up email after registration. All prices shown are estimates taken at time of publication prices may be different.

• Minimum of 8 lbs of light body clay - Iceman is recommended
• Journal and pen
• Personal scale like a kitchen scale that measures in ounces($20)
• Personal pasta roller ($37) Optional but it will be used for the laminating segment of the class and sharing is not possible due to time constraints.
• Spray bottle 12 oz  ($4)
• Fine point sharpie
  
  
  

  IMPORTANT INFO
  

• COLOR CLAY 1 is the Prerequisite for ALL other Clay Workshops offered at MMPS!

• LUNCH- Bring a bag lunch (refrigerator available) or order in from a local spot! (Each student will be responsible for their own pick-up or arranging together with others.)
  

• Classes start promptly on time.

• Class Registrations are non-refundable and non-transferable.

• Pieces made by Non-Members will be fired to bisque and then clear glazed by our studio assistant if desired. Non-members will be billed for shipping their finished pieces if applicable.

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Please email with any questions. Rachelle@MarvelousMudPotteryStudio.com

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