Fri Nov 22nd, (after school / early evening), Christmas Decorations

We'll be creating unique Christmas decorations with your drawings preserved forever, fired on studio grade stoneware, using the simple but beautifully effective traditional studio ceramic technique of Sgrafitto.

For this session I will have prepared a rich dark studio grade stoneware clay into shapes and over painted with a contrasting white clay, these shapes will be stiff and partially dry.

The session allows for settling in, sketching a few ideas, and then the careful scratching through to reveal your design. The cost includes the studio prep & kiln costs. You can pre-book additional decorations to draw on. If breakages occur as we are in the making, I’ll have a limited number of smaller replacements that we’ll do instead rather than anyone going home disappointed.

How it works:
🎄Book one session per person drawing, every session includes one pre-made decoration, state in the comments with your order which you'd prefer: tree, snowman or Gingerbread man. You can buy additional decorations which will also be ready for you when you arrive for your session.

🎄Session times are booked to make sure of workbench or sat down space.

🎄We’ll carefully scratch onto our decorations. From observation this works for children over 7 alone, younger will need supervision and help from you and will need a sat space, see my note below on the neck height. The tools can be fairly sharp so your child uses with your risk and your guidance. Adults enjoy this activity too!

🎄Your work will be marked with initials and class & I’ll return them to my studio and tidy rough edges etc. They will then be fired in my kiln, threaded & ready to collect from me from 9th Dec and you'll be notified.

This is for adults or children. It is an accessible activity in my Thames-side studio including level access and a toilet. The spaces are a mixture of stood and sat, please note to me with your order if you require a seated space which will be necessary for smaller children as the stood workbenches are 90cms high. I have plenty of teaching experience & am fully DBS certified. It's not hugely messy but if you need to preserve special outfits do feel free to bring your own aprons / cover all.