Exclusive workshop with Billy Ritter!

In all my years of teaching pottery I have found that after most students and aspiring potters learn the core forms of: bowl, cylinder, and plate, they often get stuck on scaling up to larger forms and bigger ideas.

In this workshop we will consider simple forms can work together to make some larger. For example, how two bowls can be attached to create a moon jar. From here, a slender cylinder can then be added to that moon jar to make an even taller vessel.

With the simple addition to this vessel of a long handle, you have now created an ancient Greek Lekythos for storing olive oil. This form and others will be explored opening your mind to new possibilities in this new year!

Tools:

• Bats,

• throwing stick,

• potters knife,

• sponge,

• wire,

• needle tool,

• scoring tool,

• brush for slip,

• slip,

• large wood rib,

• kidney or cat-eye rib (for curves),

• metal spring steel rib,

• sponge on a stick,

• calipers or ruler,

• level,

• Mudtools Do-all-tool,

• standard trimming tools,

• sure form.

You don’t

need these exact tools, this is just what I usually use. If you’re on a budget use what you have and do the best you can.