Join Yasmin Davis to create your potter's mark stamp, or any other small texture stamps you have in mind!

In this workshop, you will learn to make small plaster slabs, then carve into them with a specialised tool to create small and intricate stamps. Once your design is finalised, you will use porcelain clay to make a negative impression. The porcelain clay then gets bisque fired and becomes your Maker's Mark stamp!

This is the perfect method for creating small, detailed stamps that you can use over and over. You can keep the plaster slab as a master too, meaning you can use it to create more stamps, should you lose or break them.

You can also carve a bigger design to get more detail into your stamp, then make a porcelain impression that is fired, then stamped again, then fired again, then stamped again... Each time you stamp and fire, your design gets smaller with the clay shrinkage! So, you can make a tiny stamp with lots of detail, or have multiple stamps of the same design in different sizes.

All materials and tools you need for this workshop are included in the enrolment fee:

• Plaster of Paris
• A carving tool
• Porcelain clay
• Containers for making the plaster slabs
• Bisque firing of stamps created at the workshop

Just bring your ideas and a pencil and paper.

Your Tutor

Yasmin is a warm and welcoming tutor, who has an incredible wealth of knowledge in all areas of ceramics and shares her skills generously. She is an exhibiting ceramics artist and also teaches classes at a Diploma level, you will be sure you benefit from her expertise.

Terms and Conditions

The Waikato Society of Potters (WSP) reserves the right to cancel a class if it fails to achieve minimum enrolment numbers, for reasons outside of our control. A full refund will be given if the class is cancelled by the WSP less a 5% credit card fee. If a student cancels their enrolment within 72 hours of the first class starting, no refund will be given. If a student cancels their booking less than 7 days prior to the event a 50% administration charge will be deducted from the refund. Should a student cancel their enrolment any time prior to the above a 20% administration fee will be deducted from the refund.

WSP does not provide make up sessions or credits for classes that you have missed due to your personal circumstances.less