Assignment 1
Create a slide to answer the following Essential Questions:
Clay box -Constructional Vessel MUST have:
Create a slide to answer the following Essential Questions:
1. Why do people create with clay?
2. In what ways has clay been used as an art form?
3. What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks in clay making?
Clay box -Constructional Vessel MUST have:
- A slab-built body (flat clay transformed into a 3D shape)
Structural support
- A Flange
Lid stopper Add on objects used in some way
Decorative extra
- Cut-out- on vessel body or on the lid for a luminary (candle holder)
- Add on clay: Shapes/design that sticks out from the surface
- Repeat patterns to enhance the theme
- What is your container going to hold? What is its USE?
- Luminary (candle holder)
- Pencil jar
- Supply box (paperclips, elastics…)
- Liquid holder (tea, juice, water….)
- Planter
- Treat box
- Flower vase
- Jewelry Box
- A story- A story of your own or a story from an author.
Outer: appearance story on the outside of the box
Slabs can make many interesting shapes. They can make basic cubes, pyramids, cylinders…or complex shapes
- If you are keeping the container for yourself- think about what you would like to use as a design. If it is a gift, think about the taste of the receiver.
- Once you know the purpose and the future owner, consider what designs and details are most appropriate.
- Selecting a Shape
The thing to remember is- Flat clay can only be curved so much.
Avoid domes and spheres
1. What is the A theme of your slab construction vessel?
What inner and outer factors influence how we express the personal box artistically?Inner: secret/ mind on the inside of the box
Assignment 2
Continue the slide to answer the following aspects: 1. What is the A theme of your slab construction vessel?
What inner and outer factors influence how we express the personal box artistically?Inner: secret/ mind on the inside of the box
Outer: appearance story on the outside of the box
2. Details of the slab construction
Clay Terms
Assignment 3
Continue the slide to answer the following aspects:
1. 3 pictures of slab container construction in progress including a bottom, a slab built body: the slab connection progress from side to side with score and attach technique, the final shape of Green Ware
2. 3 pictures of coils used in some way: decorative or structural support
Assignment 4
1. 3 pictures of painting underglaze on the Bisque Ware
2. 3 pictures of final Glaze Ware
3. Final statement of the big ides of making this slab container
4. Art critique:
A. How can your slab vessel be used to create 3‐D pieces?
B. How can slabs be used in the production of both functional and sculptural forms?
Please use the following criteria to answer the A and B questions.
2. Details of the slab construction
- What will your container hold? What is it use?
- What shape will your container be?
- Is the shape of your container geometric or organic?
- Where will you use coils?
1.Strengthen
seams .
2.Decoration
3.Lid
flange
4.Handle
5. Other
3. Draft- Draw the slab construction
- the shape of the construction
- the outside decorations
4. Draw the Final Container
What will your final container look like when you have added theme decorations (and optional: handle, cut-outs, feet, lid, etc.)?
Draw on the worksheet from at least two views (top, side, front, back, corner, bottom..)
Ceramics: Art of making objects out of clay to produce pottery and sculpture.
Clay: Stiff, sticky kind of earth that is used in ceramics. It is wet, and it hardens after drying or heating.
Wedging: Kneading the clay with hands to force out air pockets and create a uniform texture.
Pinch: a hand building technique which uses the fingers to gently pinch the clay to shape it into a bowl or other forms.
Coil building: a hand building technique, using the hands to roll out and rope shaped lengths of clay. The coils may be any size, but must be consistent with one another to build pottery. The coils are wrapped together on top of one another to form the sides of pottery.
Slab building: a hand building technique using rolling pins to roll out sheets of clay. These can be cut to form patterns and assemble into forms.
Score and Slip: a joining technique where the edges to be attached are roughened up and “glued” with liquid clay (slip).
Slip: watered down clay (becomes soft and slippery).
Kiln: a furnace or oven made of ceramic used to fire or “heat” ceramic objects. A kiln may be electric, gas, or wood-burning and reach temperatures in excess of 2,500 degrees.
Glaze: In ceramics, a thin, glossy coating fired into pottery or vases.
Plastic stage: a stage when clay is workable, pliable clay.
Leather Hard: condition of raw clay where it has lost most of its moisture, but it is still able to be joined or carved.
Green Ware: Pottery that has not been fired.
Bisque Ware: Clay has been fired once in a kiln. Glaze Ware： （ Earthen Ware） Clay has been fired (low fire) a second time in a kiln.
Clay: Stiff, sticky kind of earth that is used in ceramics. It is wet, and it hardens after drying or heating.
Wedging: Kneading the clay with hands to force out air pockets and create a uniform texture.
Pinch: a hand building technique which uses the fingers to gently pinch the clay to shape it into a bowl or other forms.
Coil building: a hand building technique, using the hands to roll out and rope shaped lengths of clay. The coils may be any size, but must be consistent with one another to build pottery. The coils are wrapped together on top of one another to form the sides of pottery.
Slab building: a hand building technique using rolling pins to roll out sheets of clay. These can be cut to form patterns and assemble into forms.
Score and Slip: a joining technique where the edges to be attached are roughened up and “glued” with liquid clay (slip).
Slip: watered down clay (becomes soft and slippery).
Kiln: a furnace or oven made of ceramic used to fire or “heat” ceramic objects. A kiln may be electric, gas, or wood-burning and reach temperatures in excess of 2,500 degrees.
Glaze: In ceramics, a thin, glossy coating fired into pottery or vases.
Plastic stage: a stage when clay is workable, pliable clay.
Leather Hard: condition of raw clay where it has lost most of its moisture, but it is still able to be joined or carved.
Green Ware: Pottery that has not been fired.
Bisque Ware: Clay has been fired once in a kiln. Glaze Ware： （ Earthen Ware） Clay has been fired (low fire) a second time in a kiln.
Assignment 3
Continue the slide to answer the following aspects:
1. 3 pictures of slab container construction in progress including a bottom, a slab built body: the slab connection progress from side to side with score and attach technique, the final shape of Green Ware
2. 3 pictures of coils used in some way: decorative or structural support
Assignment 4
1. 3 pictures of painting underglaze on the Bisque Ware
2. 3 pictures of final Glaze Ware
3. Final statement of the big ides of making this slab container
4. Art critique:
A. How can your slab vessel be used to create 3‐D pieces?
B. How can slabs be used in the production of both functional and sculptural forms?
Please use the following criteria to answer the A and B questions.
*Analyze and explain how you use the clay technique to create a form with good symmetry, basic shape, and even thickness throughout?
*Analyze and explain how you use the clay technique to create hollow forms and sculptural pieces, possibly in combination with other hand building techniques.
*Analyze and explain how you deliberately alter the basic clay form to achieve interesting/dynamic forms.
*Analyze and explain how you demonstrate knowledge of slab as a basic forming method
*Analyze and explain how you understand the meaning and possibilities of decoration to achieve your goal?
