Course Plan:

Week 1:

• Slide Show and talk on Islamic ceramic, including history, traditional ways of drawing pattern, plate and tiles and glaze preparation.
• Practical geometry: dividing a circle into 6, 8 and 12 fold.
• Practical geometry: Drawing biomorphic pattern base on geometric analysis.

Week 2:

• Analysing a plate design base on grids drawn in class.
• Tracing the outline of the image on a tracing paper
• Transferring image from tracing paper on to watercolor paper using traditional methods.

Week 3:

• Practicing horizontal and vertical line with a pencil on a piece of paper.
• Practicing spirals with pencil on a piece of paper. Practicing horizontal, vertical line and spirals with fine natural hairbrushes on ceramic tiles.
• Ceramic tiles will be fired in a kiln

Week 4:

Understanding the fine hand movements on the chosen patterns.

• Preparing handmade glaze.
• Outlining the traced image with a fine brush and handmade glaze on the ceramic plate.

Week 5:

Continuing with paint application

• Understanding the different types of glazes.
• Test glazes are to make a series of tests.

Week 6:

Continue with the rest of applying paints

• Introduction of traditional solid techniques
 for applying the glaze.
• Finishing the main body of paint

Week 7:

Introduction of shading techniques

• Finishing the whole painting on the plate.
• Putting the piece into the kiln for the first round of firing,

Week 8:

Over glaze application demonstration for ceramics

• Finishing the final glazing.