Top 10 Best Porcelain classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK

Come along and try your hand-skills and creativity in this 2.5 hr session jewellery making class! Your teacher, Erika, is a professionally trained porcelain painter, ceramics designer-maker, working with Bone china and porcelain. Her range includes jewellery, fine tableware, objects, hand decorated with botanical paintings. Erika will teach you how to hand craft delicate jewellery pieces from simple to more elaborate shapes, and guide you through different methods of surface decorations and glazes. You will discover the beauty of this tactile material, and the fun techniques to create original pieces. Pendants, earrings, brooches, cufflinks. You can expect to learn techniques such as; hand cutting, surface decorating, glazing, whilst making a range of pieces, including; pendants, earrings, brooches, cufflinks. Create your own beautiful jewellery with guide of a professional. Perfect gift for Birthdays and Hen parties, interactive quality time spent together, creating beautiful jewellery. Your finished pieces will be ready to collect within a week after the class. All findings are allergy free (sterling silver, gold vermeil)

Starting with an introduction to the world of porcelain painting, materials, tools and techniques. China paints are in powder form, mixed with various mediums to a paintable consistency. Once fired and fused to the glaze it wont fade, stays permanent. During this class you will learn how to mix the colors, how to apply them by fine brushes on the glazed surface, creating delicate designs. By learning the complex, traditional way of hand painting you gain a skill, technique which you can use to decorate anything in the pottery world. Small classes, focused on you. Teaching the basic , clever techniques, controlled brush strokes to create fine, detailed patterns on glazed porcelain surface. No previous experience needed.

This is a 4 week course were you will learn the techniques of the fine art of decorating porcelain. By learning the complex, traditional European way of hand painting you gain the skills and techniques which you can use to decorate anything in pottery world. After firing on 800 degrees the motives sink into the glaze, making it permanent. First session : about the materials, mixing colors (China paints are in powder form, you have to mix it with a painting medium), learn the basic brush strokes, creating simple designs. Second session : refreshing the basics, and moving on to the more complex patterns. It is the start of layers on top of one another, creating a 3D effect. Painting the first layer, the base. The nature of painting medium is to evaporate, and by giving time for the first layer to properly dry, you ensure that it could be applied the second and third layer securely later. Also the occasion where we design your own plate and you start to paint a piece which will be yours to keep. Third session: Second layer of the pattern, fine outlines. Using different type of brushes, adding a beautiful definition to the patterns. Exciting development, slow, focused process. During the final session you will do step 3, called shadows. This is the session where you complete your own design, on a hand made bone china plate. After firing its yours to take home, which could be arranged within a week time after you complete the course. The classes are small (max. 3 people), to ensure you get proper attention and help from Erika to develop the techniques.