I tried Ceramic Kingdom wheel beginner class

My inspiration came when my friend Ray did a 1-month ceramic workshop in Portugal.

In 2019 I joined my first wheel-throwing ceramic workshop after my friend Alesha suggested the idea. It was in a private workshop, in the back room of a wine shop in Neukoeln with 5 students. The course was 4 times 2h:

• 2 x 2h to learn to turn the clay, center it, make it rise, make it go low and then do what you can to make it looks like a bowl or a vase or a piece of art.
• 1 x 2h to trim your pieces, remove as much clay as necessary, make the foot of the pieces and decorate them
• 1 x 2h to glaze them. The secret with the glaze is that….as a beginner you never really know how it going to come out, it will be a surprise.

I really liked the workshop, I found it so meditative and satisfying. I decided it would be the first but last session I’ll have with clay. Then COVID happened, I decide to learn the harp and I put this plan in the back. But I never completely forgot. I also encounter more people who were also into it like me, as a recurring hobby. My sister-in-law, my cousin, my cousin’s girlfriend. Talking with some of them I realize that it is a very trendy activity, for example, there is a waiting list of several months to reserve a seat in a ceramic workshop in Paris.