Lynnette Hesser and Steve Loucks will demonstrate simultaneously for twice the opportunity for the attendee to learn how to alter and embellish pottery with their techniques and see their aesthetics and artistic processes at work.

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Steve will demonstrate his throwing techniques making a mug, tumbler, and a bowl. He will show how to alter and embellish simple thrown forms to give them gesture and personality. He will make a variety of bowls: wavy-rim, cut-rim, split-rim, and thrown-rim. He will also show how to make a serving dish from a thrown ring placed on a slab or thrown-out bottom. Steve will then demonstrate how to take simple thrown pieces and assemble them to make complex vase and jar forms. He will make a stacked jar, a sgraffito vase using black slip, and one of his elaborate floral vessels.

At the same time, Lynnette will first demonstrate how to make a number of different styles of bowls which will be manipulated or carved. She will show how to measure and add geometric and naturalistic patterns to thrown pieces and then how to carve them with a three-dimensional quality. Lynnette will teach how to measure exactly to have a perfectly fitting lid for a jar and how to add clay additions and sprigs to the pieces for more decoration and detail. She will show how to press mold clay slabs over plaster and wooden forms, how to add feet, and a thrown foot on pieces both connected and separate. She will also demonstrate making an undulated edge tray from a slab of clay.

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For more information about Lynnette and Steve and their work:   www.lynnettehesserceramics.com    stevelouckspottery.com