MASTER CLASS BY
ALBERTO BUSTOS
ABOUT
Alberto Bustos
A Spanish artist, Member of the International Academy of Ceramics & Honorable Master Zibo (China)
Winner of numerous international competitions. He is self-taught and works the clay in his own unique way. This results in fascinating shapes, full of movement, refined, sensitive, poetic. A story about the nature, rhythm, strength and hope for every art lovers.
Alberto Bustos- Workshop
“Filaments and textures”
“Self-taught as I am, I never dreamt that my passion and admiration for Ceramics would turn into my way of life, would give meaning to my life.
It may well be that my inborn attraction to Nature pushed me down to the ground so as to be fused with earth, our true essence.
Through “natuRareza” I submerge myself into the vegetal Psyche in order to find out those tortured feelings, product of the deterioration of the environment that we humans habitually cause.
My only wish is that my modelling goes in deeply into human sensitivity to revert the harm we are inflicting on ourselves”
The main objective of the workshop is to model the clay directly with our hands, without tools. In this way we will be able to communicate directly with the clay and transmit our feelings. With the technique of “launch” we will make textured plates. Also square filaments, flat and rectangular. Creation of stone textures using pigmented cookies. Application of coloring pigments and glaze, powder and liquid, on the wet clay to do only one firing. We will discover how all these techniques can not only be applied to sculptures. We can also adapt them to the functional ceramic style. In this course I want to tell stories of hope with our pieces, from the most absolute freedom and improvisation, without obsessing with technique.
Video presentation with explanation about my experience in ceramics.
Demonstration of production of plates by “launch” technique without the use of a roller or any machinery.
Explanation of the elaboration of two types of textured plates with manual pressure by means of the “launch” technique, after application of coloring pigments with glaze powder. I will make a piece with the previous techniques. Application of coloring pigments with powder glaze with brush and hand strainer on the wet clay.
Explanation of the square filament modeling technique with the “launch” technique on a wooden plate.
Application with toothbrush of coloring pigments and glaze mixed with water on wet clay.
Construction of a complete piece to explain step by step the previously explained techniques. Explanation of craquelure textures in clay powder with glaze.
Explanation of the stony (rocky) texture technique. Use of different materials for its preparation as; macaroons, sugar cubes and cookies.
Explanation of different uses of the Kanthal wire as a support for sculptures (equal material of the electric kiln resistors) Explanation of the technique of modeling flat filaments with the technique of “launch” on a wooden plate. Application with toothbrush of colored pigments and glaze mixed with water on wet clay. I will also apply the coloring pigments and glaze directly on the wooden plate. I will make a piece with the previous techniques.
Demonstration of the technique of “launch” rectangular filaments for various sculptural uses. We will build cylindrical or quadrangular pieces with internal roller or quadrangular wood and we will apply the coloring pigments with glaze and water with a toothbrush and also in powder form on wood. With the same technique we will make textured flat filaments and we will use them for different sculptural or functional constructions on wet clay. I will also apply the coloring pigments and glaze directly on the wooden plate.
Explanation of different experimental techniques:
- Construction with “cardboard” as a base. -Construction of pieces using “sponges”.
- Construction of sculptures and decorative applications as transfer of “wax paper”.
Kiln opening and evaluate the results.
WORKSHOP ENQUIRIES
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Clayfingers Pottery Pvt Ltd.
Kadalassery, Vallachira Post – 680562
Urakam, Thrissur District, Kerala State, India.
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