Lush & Layered: Stencils and Underglaze Painting with Taylor Sijan

If you want to create enticing, complex, and colorful surfaces, this workshop is for you! In this one-day workshop at the studio, Taylor Sijan will demonstrate her unique approach to layering underglaze on bone dry porcelain using paper resists!

Taylor creates beautiful, tactile pottery with multiple layers of underglaze and glaze. She builds up layers strategically, carefully planning out application and color usage.

During this workshop, Taylor will show students how she forms a handbuilt plate and then plans her color process and patterning with paper stencils. From there, she will walk students through how she builds layer upon layer of color. During this process, Taylor will explain how she chooses composition and color palettes. She will also talk about how she anticipates and addresses common accidents that occur during this technique when she cleans up and refines the painted surface.

Students will be provided bone dry porcelain tiles as…