Light it Up: Ceramic Lamp Shortie
- Teacher: Joe
- Class Length: 4 sessions
- Date: Tuesdays, beginning April 14
- Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
- Materials fee $25 – included in price
Switch on your creativity and light up your space! You can build a fully functional ceramic lamp of your own design in this 4-session course.
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Start with the Basics: Use essential handbuilding techniques like pinching, coiling, and slab construction and darting to kickstart your project.
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Shape and Sculpt: Explore techniques to shape your lamp’s base to give it your unique flair. Will it be tall and slender, short and plump, or elegantly twisted? You decide.
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Detailing and Texture: Add the finishing touches using a variety of hand tools and stamps for personalized texture and detail.
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Optional Wheel: For those interested, take a turn on the potter’s wheel for additional refinements.Â
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Fire and Finish: Understand the steps for drying, bisque firing, and glazing to complete your masterpiece.
Consider purchasing a lamp shade and wiring kit before you begin sculpting. Here is a link to a basic wiring kit that we suggest: Lamp Kit from Home Depot
Here are some other options:
- Snakes Head Vintage has the wires and plugs, etc. –Â Â https://www.etsy.com/shop/
SnakeHeadVintage - Royal Lamp Shades – https://www.etsy.com/shop/
royalLAMPSHADES - Whole lamp set – https://www.etsy.com/
listing/1034700255/ - Bases and caps, etc from Antique Lamp Supply – https://antiquelampsupply.
com/
Perfect for those who have taken our Beginning Ceramics 1 course or have equivalent experience, as well as seasoned artists.
Light it up! Sign up now.
Pottery Classes at the Seattle Artist League
Join us for pottery classes in our 2,700 square foot studio in Seattle’s Georgetown Arts District. We offer classes for beginning ceramics in wheel throwing, hand-building, firing, and glazing. Our pottery classes are open to beginners and intermediate potters.
We have long offered classes in clay sculpting. Our commitment to the medium has expanded with the opening of our south Seattle Ceramics Studio. Join us for classes, workshops, and events in Seattle’s newest ceramics studio.
At the Seattle Artist League, we have a start where you are philosophy. You are welcome in our studio as a beginner or a seasoned pro. Join us.
Here are a few of the awesome lamps students have made!
