Creative Drawing and Experimental mark-making for Ceramics

With ceramic surfaces in mind, students will explore drawing and mark making on papers. You will work with graphite and charcoal, inks, wax resist, frottage and some low-tech printmaking techniques such as mono-print and block printing. You will also experiment with making drawings that to project onto 2D shapes and 3D forms as a starting point for generating ideas. The aim is to help give a more exploratory approach to drawing and mark making i n ceramics and to help generate ideas through exploring materials as well as making observations from and responses to physical objects. Teaching will be by demonstrations, specific exercises and mini projects.