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Spotlight on Hand Built Pottery

with Freya Bramble-Carter
Freya teaches beginners home pottery, covering essential tools, hand-shaping, coiling techniques, and air-drying with no kiln required.
9 lessons
Workbook
2 hours

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What's Included

Learn the basic techniques

Learn the basic techniques

Create a bespoke flower vase

Create a bespoke flower vase

Follow two step-by-step projects

Follow two step-by-step projects

Learn how to paint and finish your work

Learn how to paint and finish your work

Learn from Freya Bramble-Carter

Designed for complete beginners, Freya covers all the key materials and tools needed to start creating pottery at home, before introducing two projects to practice different techniques. Beginning with a small ceramic pinch bowl, Freya shows how to work the clay by hand into different forms before progressing to a larger ceramic flower vase, made using the coiled technique; a method used to create larger pieces without the need for a potter’s wheel. The final lessons focus on different ceramic finishes, showing how to paint and varnish final pieces which are all air dried at home, so no professional kiln is needed.

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Spotlight on Hand Built Pottery

It can be quite intimidating when you’re starting out working with clay, so I’m really thrilled to have designed a class that you can take in the privacy of your own home that will help you build in confidence.

Freya Bramble-Carter

Single course. One time purchase.

Access all courses. Billed annually.

Lesson Plan

9 LESSONs / 2 HOURs

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