A&S Class Cheerleading: Paint your own 15th c. Spanish Pottery!

[hrj]

When we did the pottery-painting sessions for the last Perfectly Period Feast, we had so much fun that I thought more people needed to share in the experience, so I volunteered to coordinate a "Paint Your Own (15th c. Spanish) Pottery class for A&S.

We'll be working with the gorgeous 6-lobed bowl style and there will be a brief lecture and presentation on the types of decorations used on bowls of this type and on other simple pottery of the same era. The decoration style we'll be emphasizing is a relatively simple, free-flowing -- sometimes even a bit abstract -- style in a limited range of colors. I guarantee that people of all levels of artistic ability will be able to reproduce or adapt at least some subset of the motifs in question.

All materials (pots, paints, brushes, etc. etc.) are included in the class fee, as is the post-painting firing and shipping back to you after the firing is done. This is professionally made pottery produced by Lodema the Potter who developed the lobed-bowl design based on research by Mistress Crystal and other members of the PPF team. The class fee is $25 per bowl with a discount of $5 for a second bowl shipped to the same address.

The pottery class is scheduled for Sunday morning at A&S in order to minimize conflict with all the other wonderful classes you'll want to enjoy! If not all the bowls are spoken for at A&S, I'll be reprising the class Sunday morning at June Crown (time TBD but I suspect it will be "whenever interested people find me").

Just imagine: you'll not only learn about Spanish pottery designs -- you'll end up with your own authentic reproduction bowl ... that you painted yourself!

Here are some examples of pre-fired bowls of the style we'll be doing from one of the PPF painting sessions. (The fired bowls have more brilliant colors.)

Comments

[cellio]

What a great class! I wish you were doing it somewhere I could get to. (Psst -- Pennsic is calling! :-) )

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Pennsic is a very long distance away and uses up a large amount of vacation time.

[cellio]

True, true... a girl can dream. :-)

[kiria-dk.livejournal.com]

Yay! We had so much fun doing that. :)

[gmdreia.livejournal.com]

Those are very beautiful!

[gmdreia.livejournal.com]

Ooh... and one more thing, this gives me ideas for my "host a banquet set in my world" event that I'd love to do.

[nicolaa5.livejournal.com]

This is very spiffy. Where are you getting the bowl forms? I'd love to do something like this in Ealdormere at some point, but would probably need to rope in a potter to give me a few clues.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

The bowls were produced by a local potter (professional but plays SCA) based on research done by the PPF team.

[gmdreia.livejournal.com]

I like the design of them, even knowing nothing about historic pottery. The lobe design is unique and appealing.

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

I would love to participate again. Last time was such fun!

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Oh! I want to do one SO MUCH!!!

[sue-n-julia.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooh, I wish I could go to this class!!! Can you bring it to An Tir (or find an event in the West I can get to)? Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top?

S

[trystbat.livejournal.com]

I am SO getting up on time for this! Thanks for doing it.

[allison-is.livejournal.com]

This makes me want to be there. Any chance you might also do it later in the year?

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[(Anonymous)]

Beautiful! I'm not likely to get to June Crown, but let me know if you'll teach this again somewhere. -- Rachel H

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I might actually take a Sunday class for this. Is there a class size limit?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

The only limit is the number of bowls. Lodema said she's doing 25. If it looks like the class is likely to be near that number then I'll hold off on allowing seconds, but I suspect that won't be an issue.

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

Let us hope that the kiln gremlins don't notice there are 25 bowls.

[hunrvogt.livejournal.com]

Alas I'm off to hit the GR Riding practice that Sunday. I am interested if you have enough materials to do a class at Crown.