Pottery Workshop Photos

Blue Ridge Potters Guild Inc

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2011 Workshops

2010 Workshop

Randy Brodnax Workshop 2011

Randy Brodnax, a life-long potter and educator from Dallas, Texas, creates everything from functional dinnerware to large decorative vessels to clay sculpture. A Louisiana native, Randy has retained much of the Cajun joie de vivre with which he was raised, and has spent a career building bridges among clay artists of all levels of experience.

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Randy first starts with a cylinder form.

While drying the exterior with a heat gun, he expands the pot from the inside.

Randy advises to have a stout bottom and rim for support later in the process.

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Using more heat to firm up the bottom while finishing the rim.

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Continuing to shape the pot.

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Randy closes in and collapse around the rim.

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While the pot is wet, he uses a rubber tipped stylus to draw lines to form undulations.

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He also uses the stylus to draw a line from the inside and then accentuate the line outside.