Ceramic course – complete version

So much time wanting to try it… With this in mind, we’ve designed a complete and intensive one-month course that brings together all the essential techniques you need to work with ceramics independently. A compact yet in-depth journey that takes you from beginner to intermediate level, giving you the skills to create any piece with confidence and your own personal style.

Discover ceramics from every angle: in just one month, we take you from beginner to intermediate, combining practice, creativity, and professional techniques. You’ll learn to master the wheel, from basic forms to more complex pieces with lids or narrow necks; explore handbuilding with slabs and coils to create unique, functional pieces; and dive into the world of decoration by applying image transfers to give your work a personal touch. You’ll also be guided in high-temperature glaze research and development, and in its application, so that each piece you make reflects your style and enables you to keep creating independently.

Program and dates:

Wheel-throwing module I: Monday 2 to Thursday 5 February, 10h–14h

You’ll learn centering (essential for mastering the wheel) and how to throw the main forms: cylinders (the base of all wheel-thrown shapes), bowls, cups, and lidded pieces.
We will fire a selection of your 6 best pieces (chosen by you). All pieces will be utilitarian and safe for daily use (we use no toxic materials).

Image transfer on ceramics: Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February, 10h–18h

We enter the world of decoration: you will learn different image-transfer techniques on ceramics. With ceramist Montse Llanas.

Wheel-throwing module II: Monday 9 to Wednesday 11 February, 10h–14h

We continue the work started in module I.
You’ll now work with more clay and learn how to make closed forms. You will choose one piece from this module for final firing.

Handbuilding: Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 February, 10h–16h

You will work with the two essential handbuilding techniques: slab construction and coil building. With these methods you can create almost any ceramic piece.
In this module we will teach you how to shape and manage slabs, and how to build stable, symmetrical walls using coils.
We will create a breakfast set (cup, plate, and bowl) and a jug.

High-temperature glaze research and development: Friday 20 to Sunday 22 February, 10h–16h

A fascinating module designed to teach you how to formulate and modify industrial glazes, as well as a clear method for continuing your own research and developing your personal glaze notebook.

Glazing class: Friday 27 February, 18h30–20h30

You will glaze your selected pieces from the wheel-throwing workshops (modules I and II) and from the handbuilding workshop.

Access to the atelier infrastructure to practice what you learned: Monday 2 to Friday 27 February, 11h–18h

If you wish to fire any pieces made during your practice time, we will calculate the corresponding cost.

If you like the program, contact us at eltorn@eltornbarcelona.com

and we’ll tell you how to register.

Check the upcoming dates on our calendar >

THIS COURSE INCLUDES:

• Stoneware clay, tools, firings, and glazes (for wheel modules I and II, and handbuilding).

• Access to the workshop infrastructure (dates and times described above).

DOES NOT INCLUDE:

• accommodation

• meals

• firing of pieces made during the practice period