This class focuses on developing wheel throwing skills while exploring a variety of painterly surface decoration techniques for ceramic vessels. Students will create forms on the wheel and learn how to enhance them through underglazes, glazing methods, and other surface treatments. With ample time for practice, experimentation, and individualized instruction, participants will build both technical proficiency and confidence in their personal artistic approach. This course is ideal for students looking to strengthen their wheel throwing skills while expanding their surface design vocabulary. 

What you will learn:
- To enhance their wheel throwing techniques
- To create functional finished pots using trimming, handle-making, additive and reductive decoration.
- To use different surface decoration techniques (such as sgraffito) with both glaze and underglaze on greenware and bisqueware to finish your wheel thrown vessels. 
- To articulate their personal taste and vision, and use this to plan and execute pots they will enjoy using