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

Saturday September 12, 9AM-4PM
Sunday September 13, 9AM - 12 Noon

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 decorative clay veneers 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.

Required Student Supply Kit - Sold Separately

3 Color* Student Supply Kit - $100 + tax

• Color Kit of 3 basic colors- premixed...red, yellow, blue
• 1 Canvas board for Mason stain chips made in class
• Fabric strips for running Mason stain colored clay through pasta roller

Course Overview...

Day 1: Color Clay Foundations

• Gradients
• Marbling
• Blending
• Laminating

Day 2: Surface Design with Color

• Colored clay veneers
• Appliqué
• Inlay
  
• Finished vessel project

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 7 lbs of light body clay 
• Journal and pen
• Personal scale like a kitchen scale that measures in ounces($20)
• Personal pasta roller ($37)
• Spray bottle 12 oz  ($4)
• Hand Towel
• Fine point sharpie
• 32 oz air tight food grade container for mixed color clay - 1 per color (minimum 3)
  
  
  
  

  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.

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Please email with any questions. Rachelle@MarvelousMudPotteryStudio.com

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