Clay at Home Studio Starter Kit
$250.00
If you've wanted to take up pottery, but aren't sure what you need, this kit is for you! It's got everything you need to turn your kitchen table into your very own pottery studio! With a whopping 5kg of real fully-functional clay, a deluxe tool kit, and access to the same curriculum as our 6 Week Introduction to Handbuilding course, we'll show you the three core techniques that will allow you to create just about anything in clay!
Plus, we've also included an Underglaze Kit - to add some colourful finishing touches, and a beautiful mid-fire Clear Glaze.
We'll also take you through the steps to firing with a Kiln Membership at Clay Sydney, or help you find another friendly potter!
This kit comes with an incredible $576.75 of added extras - that's over double the value!
- 5kg of Clay and a Deluxe Tool Kit (of course!)
- Underglaze Kit and Brushes - $30
- Clear Glaze - $26.75
- Access to our 6 Week Introduction to Handbuilding curriculum via our online portal ($470)
- A years Kiln Membership at Clay Sydney ($50)
Fantastic Features:
At Clay Sydney we pride ourselves on making pottery as accessible as possible, and our kits are no different.
We've designed these kits to take you from someone with zero experience through to a budding potter in the making. That's right, as soon as your get stuck in, you're officially a potter!
We'll take you three fundamental techniques in our booklet, and our online video portal that will enable you to make just about anything you fancy!
It can be hard to know what to get when you're first starting out, but this kit contains everything you need to turn your kitchen table into an at home studio.
But the best bit? The Home Studio Kit contains the same teachings and techniques as we use in our in-studio 6 week handbuilding course (valued at $470), plus a years free Kiln Membership (valued at $50), which provided special discount firing rates - yep, more savings!
If you're feeling a bit over the stress of modern life, you're not alone.
Fortunately, clay has an incredible sensory quality that allows you to get out of your head, and into your hands. By taking the time to focus on the lovely squishy mud during a 'muditation'* session, the clay will slow your mind, and you'll be pleasantly surprised of what you can achieve.
If you're looking for a hobby to centre yourself, this is it!
*(sorry, not sorry!)
All of our kits include 100% REAL Australian Clay - not what's marketed as 'air-drying clay'.
We've seen a lot of kits out there using air-drying clay to create all sorts of vessels - like mugs, planters or vases. Unfortunately, vessels made with these kits are purely decorative. If you add water, they just melt. All that work and you can't even have a cuppa from your creation!
It's also often not clear what these clays include, but generally it's some polymer base (a plastic glue) with a bunch of other junk added in for texture and colour. It's not clay, and it doesn't behave like clay. It's tricky to work with and dries out quickly.
Our clay is the only type of clay that you can fire in a kiln to create durable, useable pottery.
That being said, if you want to create a sculptural piece, then you don't have to use a kiln. It will just sit happily on a shelf!
If you’re just creating something sculptural that is happy to just sit on a shelf, you can just leave it be - you can even paint it with acrylic paint. However it will be brittle, and you won’t be able to get it wet.
If you want something functional, like a mug or vase, you’re going to need to fire it to aver 1000 degrees, and seal with a glaze. Your oven just won't cut it.
If you’re in Sydney you can fire with us at Clay Sydney at a discounted membership rate. If you’re outside of Sydney, there’s a fantastic website called kilnshare.com. It’s not our website, but lists hundreds of kilns all over the world! You can also jump on google and search “firing service in my area” to find your friendly local potters.