Introduction to Kintsugi: Repair Your Pottery with Gold
Joining the Broken Pieces
A course by Clara Graziolino , Ceramic Artist and Kintsugi Expert
About the video: Joining the Broken Pieces
Overview
“In this lesson, I am going to show you how to prepare the glue to join the broken pieces. ”
In this video lesson Clara Graziolino addresses the topic: Joining the Broken Pieces, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Kintsugi: Repair Your Pottery with Gold. Learn to embrace the beauty of imperfections by restoring your ceramics through the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi.
Partial transcription of the video
“Joining the broken pieces In this lesson, we are going to start restoring our first bowl. For the gold relief technique, we are going to mix the glue with the gold dust powder. The excess of glue will create the gold relief line. It is a very fast and easy technique, perfect to start your Kintsugi practice. The only difficulty may be that we cannot control how the golden glue comes out when you join the fragments. So, you have to consider that the result is a bit unpredictable. So, with a little practice, it's a technique that you will master very quickly, and it's one that I personally lov...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Kintsugi: Repair Your Pottery with Gold
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, DIY, Fine Arts
Clara Graziolino
A course by Clara Graziolino
Clara Graziolino is a contemporary history graduate from Turin University, with a degree from the Art and Restoration Institute in Florence, Italy. She began her career by restoring Etruscan ceramics for an archaeological museum in Pisa and Roman sculptures for the Uffizi Museum in Florence.
In 2003, she moved to Madrid to deepen her knowledge of ceramic sculptures. She eventually started making her own sculpture artwork, and in 2016 she was awarded first prize at Magrama International Ceramics contest. Alongside a Japanese restoration teacher, she learned the traditional techniques of kintsugi and has since collaborated in advertisements and events with brands such as Shiseido and Acciona. She currently works with international galleries and interior designers creating sculptures, murals, and installations.
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