Handmade Stories – Helen Beard Explores Painting on Clay

Helen Beard is a storyteller using clay. She loves to illustrate, paint, and color her porcelain objects with a view to making a story. Working both on wheel thrown vessels and hand built objects, Helen decorates her artworks to create colorful and playful narratives about contemporary life.

In this workshop, you can learn:

  • Helen’s unique technique of relief print on to clay
  • Using stain impregnated paper to create delicate line drawings and washes of color to stain the clay body
  • Helen will demonstrate her processes of mark making on clay from the very intricate details to very expressive fluid lines.

All abilities are welcome for this workshop. Come to be inspired and learn about Helen’s brand, Handmade Stories. Learn about her inspirations and how her work has developed into stop-motion animations using only clay as her medium.

The class is ready to watch now. So jump on in.

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