Coming Up at Kiln Creations | October 1–4
We have spent the last several weeks pretending spooky season had already arrived, putting bats on things, making tiny, haunted houses, building cauldrons and generally behaving as though the calendar had no authority over us.
But soon it's October.
Which means we're no longer early.
We're simply correct.
And we're kicking off the first weekend of October with glowing witch houses, BeetleJuice-inspired pottery, clay cauldrons, a ridiculously easy way to make stoneware look fancy, and the beginning of a brand-new experiment that involves pottery wheels, Twitch, cameras and six people who have agreed to let us broadcast their clay struggles to the internet.
Here's what's coming up at KC October 1–4.
We're starting October exactly as we intend to continue it: by making unnecessarily elaborate ceramic Halloween decorations that we'll be pulling out of storage every fall for the rest of our lives.
Thursday night kicks off our Light Up Halloween series with the Witch Hat House, a giant crooked witch's hat that has somehow become real estate.
There are windows. There are stars. There are bats. It lights up.
Frankly, the housing market has never looked better.
You can go classic Halloween with purples, oranges and black, turn it into a mossy woodland witch cottage, make it dark and gothic, cover the whole thing in glitter because restraint is overrated, or create an entirely new witchy neighborhood aesthetic that we're all going to want to copy afterward.
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
We're not saying it a third time because we have enough going on around here already.
Friday night we're bringing back one of our favorite creepy-season painting lessons, with your choice of a luminary or decanter and a step-by-step design featuring that unmistakable striped, sandworm-filled, wonderfully weird world.
This one has a little more technique than your average pottery-painting night, but you don't need to walk in knowing how to do any of it. We'll trace where we need to trace, teach you the techniques, help you through the fiddly bits and get you from blank pottery to something delightfully strange sitting on your Halloween shelf.
If you've been wanting to try one of our more detailed painting lessons but have been worried that you're "not artistic enough," this is exactly the kind of class where we get to prove you wrong.
Apparently buying a cauldron would be too easy.
We're making them.
For this clay class, we'll have the body of your cauldron pre-thrown and ready for you to transform with handles, moons, stars, suns, texture and whatever other magical nonsense you believe your particular cauldron requires.
Your cauldron might be whimsical and celestial, dark and ancient, moss-covered and witchy, or suspiciously reminiscent of a certain extremely powerful magical cauldron from a fantasy series that we are absolutely not talking about.
Pure coincidence.
Once you've built it, we'll fire it, and then you'll come back to paint it—which means this is basically a double date with your own artwork.
This is one of those techniques that looks like you spent considerably more time on it than you actually did, which is one of our favorite categories of art.
For Paint Chip Pieces, we're playing with stoneware and little chips of glaze to create colorful, unpredictable patterns across mugs, bowls, plates, platters and casserole dishes. You choose two colors, add your chips and let the kiln handle a little bit of the artistic heavy lifting.
The class itself is just a $5 seat fee, and then you'll choose and purchase whichever stoneware piece you want to transform that day. Mugs start at $28, bowls at $30, and plates and platters at $45.
And because we're working with stoneware, these aren't pieces destined to spend the rest of their lives looking pretty on a shelf. Once fired, they're made for actual everyday life and can go in the dishwasher, microwave and oven.
This is an especially good one if you've painted with us before and you're starting to get that itch to try something new without committing yourself to three hours of painstaking detail work.
Tiny chips. Big payoff.
Oh boy.
We've been talking about this for a while, buying equipment, testing things and asking ourselves whether putting pottery classes on the internet is an excellent idea or an absolutely terrible one.
Sunday we find out.
Our four-week beginner Wheel Class with KCTV begins Sunday at 5 PM, and this particular session is different from anything we've done before because we're streaming it live on Twitch.
Louise will be teaching six brave beginner potters the whole process from the ground up: centering, opening, pulling walls, shaping, trimming and eventually reaching that magical moment where the lump of clay spinning wildly in front of you begins to resemble something you might actually drink coffee out of.
And the internet gets to come along for the ride.
There will be victories.
There will be wonky pots.
There will almost certainly be someone staring accusingly at their wheel and asking why the clay has personally betrayed them.
That's pottery.
The inaugural streamed session is $195 for all four weeks, including clay, instruction, wheel time, studio tools, bisque firing, glazing time and access to Thursday Open Wheel Time during the session. Future sessions will regularly be $225, so our first cast gets a little discount for agreeing to become very minor internet celebrities with us.
This is one of those things we've wanted to try for a while, and we're ridiculously excited to finally see what happens when Kiln Creations ventures into the world of extremely questionable public-access pottery television.
What could possibly go wrong?
🎃 October Has Officially Arrived
And that's just the first four days.
Come build something, paint something, learn something, make something beautifully weird, or simply wander in during open studio and see what speaks to you.
October at Kiln Creations is going to be cozy, creative, occasionally haunted and probably a little chaotic.
Exactly how we like it.
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