Day 4-5 Ceramics

We learned how to start a portfolio by photographing our pieces against a white or gray background. 

Lily and Sarah photographing their planters.

Liv and Evan learning how to take their photograph.

Cat taking a photo of his planter.

 Next we potted our plants in the finished pieces.

Evan's 3 layer planter piece.

We then took a new photo with the piece and the plant.

Bobby's planter.

Cathy's planter.

Jone's planter.

Evan's multi-layered planter.

Liv's planter.

Mrs. Henry's masterpiece.

Timothy's tower planter. 

Sarah's fun planter.

Lily's duck planter.

Ceramics Day 3

We cut our thrown pots in half (yikes) and mounted them on a plaque. This was a difficult decision but were able to get on the wheels again in the afternoon to make a new and even better bowl.

Students have their first slab built piece from Monday that was gone through the first firing process in the kiln.

Now it was time to glaze the pieces and get ready to fire them for a second time. 

Day 1 Ceramics- Designing a Plant Holder

First step was to learn about clay, why it is different colors and how hot the kiln needs to be for it to harden.

We learned how to throw the clay and roll it out thin and even enough to be able to cut and use it.

After designing our planter pots, we made paper templates to use to cut out the pieces that will ultimately come together to make the planter.

Waiting to dry before the first firing.

Cathy's finishing touches.

More finishing touches for Walker.

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Ceramics Day 2 Expressive Sculpture

Today, we spent most of the day in the studio. We met at 8:30 and went through our ideas we had (in our sketchbooks we made yesterday) and then started to work on our sculptures. We spent the morning sculpting and then  went to lunch. 

After lunch we met up and looked at many different sculptors work and discussed what our plan was for tomorrow. 

We read the book, Wabi Sabi. The book was about a cat who didn't know what its name meant and went on a journey to find out what it meant and ended up teaching and learning a life lesson on its way. We also talked about the elements of art and principles of design. 

Then we went back to the studio and continued to work on our pieces.

CERAMICS 2019 Expressive Sculpture

Today's adventure for ceramics was learning about the basics of it all. We began by making our very own personalized sketch books, we were able to personalize it by size, colors and all different designs. We went through the process of cutting, gluing and sewing our papers together for a great final product.

We took a well deserved coffee break this afternoon between creating our sketchbooks and meeting sculptor Anita Holt!

After we made our sketch books we went to see a sculptor by the name of Anita Holt who has many different abstract sculptures and some of which are cubist.

We learned about the different forms of sculpture and the different glazes that can accompany pots when we paint them and that what we paint pots with is not limited to glazes. Today was overall a really good start to project week by establishing strong basics and beginnings for ceramics.

We also got to use and play with some clay. We learned how to wedge....

clay, as well as the basics of making a pinch pot or a coil pot. We used different types of stamps to design some slabs of clay and get a basic feel for working with clay.