Introduction to Kintsugi: Repair Your Pottery with Gold
Final Touches
A course by Clara Graziolino , Ceramic Artist and Kintsugi Expert
About the video: Final Touches
Overview
“In this lesson, I am going to show you how to give your piece the finishing touches to make it shine. To finish your first kintsugi project, you are going to give it the final touch to make the gold lines shinier.”
In this video lesson Clara Graziolino addresses the topic: Final Touches , 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
“In this lesson, we are going to finish our kintsugi project in order to make the goal lines shinier. You'll need gold dust powder, wooden spatula, cure and flat sticks. paintbrush number 3 Round tip, alcohol. cotton gloves and kitchen paper. The first thing I'm going to do is removing the masking tape from the little hole. And now we can also remove the numbers. The first thing we are going to do is to take the paintbrush and dip it directly in the gold dust powder. Then pass the brush on top of the glue relief lines. They must be quite dry. but still stick enough for the goal to stick. You...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Kintsugi: Repair Your Pottery with Gold
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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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