Commemorative Bird House

My Plan

My mom died 7 years ago after a ten year battle with cancer. You never really loose your mother though. You carry her in your heart every day! Thinking about my mother and how much she loved birds. I love to feed birds too! I love to sit and watch them and identify the different ones that come to visit our feeders. Even the pesky Squirrels don’t bother me...

I also love this verse about sparrows…Lk

Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Practice and prepare

So I struggled as I got started. I made three pinch pots of various sizes and attempted to create the basic form. It was difficult and looking at them now I think I still need a lot of work on getting the “sparrow look” See my little painting of the sparrow in the background. I used it as a guide. My Form actually turnout out a little too tall and slender to be a sparrow… Maybe I will turn it into another type of Bird.. like a cardinal? I don’t know

Thinking ahead I attached a loop handle so I would have a way to hang my Bird Birdhouse to the hook! I also added a slab of clay that I will eventually care to look like features to the back of the form

Day 2

I am going to work on the head some more today and the tail feathers and perhaps go ahead and cut a hole in the belly for function.. I may create a perching 

random completed work

POST #3 PLAN for Cylinder

I am making a replacement small pitcher for my sister because she like the one I made in the past but the handle eventually broke off.. They used it every day, it was the perfect size for them to pour their own milk in the cereal

This image didn't work well for the cylinder... because when it wrapped around I could see the "m"

Post #1 PRODUCT Soft Slabs- Slump Molds, Surface Design:Stencil, Scraffito, Texture

I had so much fun working with the soft slabs I could just go one and on!

In the first three images I used an aluminum pie plate as a slump mold and the drop techniques to give a nice gentle concave depression in the clay.

Texture

Before scraffito to flower

After scraffito

Plastic... texture only

Underglaze added

POST #2 Find Inspiration: Planning for Unit: Cylinders- Technique #1 Carving and adding Handles

Post #2 Planning for Unit: Cylinders- Technique #1 Carving and adding Handles

Find 3 images and Describe…Using the wheels above

·      2 examples of a basic cylinder FORM that have different FUNCTIONS

·      1 example of Carving on Ceramics….

Basic Cylinder:

Function 1

 IMAGE

Description

 5 sentences

Function 2

  IMAGE

Description

 5 sentences

Carving

Description

 5 sentences

ALL THREE POST ASSIGNMENTS: Final Post for Soft Slab Unit... Planning for Cylinder Unit

       

Post # 1 UNIT SOFT SLABS and Surface Design (texture, scrafitto, stenciling)

Show at least 2 images (quality) of your work drawing, inspiration or initial start… then show where completed work OR whatever the current state it is in.

Write Reflection on this

·      Discuss your idea what inspired you and why.

·      Discuss how this technique can be used to create various forms and function

·      Discuss your own success and failure through the process of experimenting, and then moving into planning preparing your more formal individual Self Directed work

Post #2 Planning for Unit: Cylinders- Technique #1 Carving and adding Handles

Find 3 images and Describe…Using the wheels above

·      2 examples of a basic cylinder FORM that have different FUNCTIONS

·      1 example of Carving on Ceramics….

Post #3: Planning Composition for Cylinder

Find a Motif that you would like to use for a pattern in a wrap around th form composition

OR

Find typography that will be used to create a Monogram combined with a Symbol…

Post your Plan/Idea

See Mrs. Murrays Blog for example:

http://murrayceramics.blogspot.com/2014/03/planning-for-unit-cylinders-technique-1.html

Note the second assignment in this unit will be to create the Altered Cylinder through pinching, darting and or paddling

Trivet tiles

http://cpgartlessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/grade-4-7-lesson-adding-and-subtracting.html?m=1

Planning for Soft Slabs... Slump and Hump Molds

Planning for Soft Slabs- Using Slump/Hump Molds

I. Find 3 examples and post image of plates, platters or other ceramic objects that could have been created with a flat slab over a mold-form

II. Write a brief paragraph under the image…perform an Analysis various Elements & Principles to create Surface Design. Use the 4 components of the Circle above to help you identify and describe what you are looking at

If possible include what you think the technique used might be

Ideas to guide your search:

#1 Find a plate that uses multiple combined Slab Shapes to create the overall form

#2 Find a plate that uses one type of shape or line to create a Surface Design. See if you can identify the way it is organized, which Principle of Design is used…

#3 Find a Plate or other form (may have different use/function i.e. wall clock, plaque)
that utilizes an interesting non geometric outer shape.

Consider:
Why do we add Design to our household every day items?

Why do we like shape so much? What other things to we make into fun shapes?

Plate Design Ideas - Slump Technique

Find examples of the following
1st
A set that uses a matching Symbol with the element of LINE

Idea 2

Texture with Handles or feet

Idea 3

Using an different out shape Cute a Template of your own...

texture-on-slump-mold.html

Idea 4 Shapes added

Idea 5
Using several Combined Shapes together to create new Shape

Links to other parts of this site
paper-stencils

platter-using-slump-molds.html

Tab for printmaking

Rubber stoppers, and other added "materials"

Rubber Stoppers

process complex combined pinch pot birdfeeder birdhouse

Today I showed the class how they can draw on to or should I say transfer a drawing using water-soluble marker on paper and then applying it to the Clay

I also show them how they can use stencils or templates for cutting shapes

I then began to draw my design that I carved with the thistle it is a symbol of a fissile which is the Scottish flower

I kept it covered up to have it dry slowly and when it is leather hard to hard leather hard I will do the finishing touches

Pinch Pots 2 Combined Complex Plan- Drawing and Images for Inspiration

The basic form is a hemisphere, by combining two and joining them together you can create a hollow Sphere Form which can become a lot of things we see around us

Below is one example illustrating how everything can be INTERPRETED... (seen) in its basic Form-Shape (for drawing). Learning how to understand how complex forms are essential a combination of simple forms

I am thinking about creating something like this...

Pinch pot plan

flock of birds... salt and pepper

Pinch pots with Added elements

IDEA

Show 1 Drawing

1 Image

Write the PLAN

steps you will take...

Function?

 

Add caption

This is where I would write a brief paragraph describing my goal, plan idea... how I expect to accomplish my goal, what steps I expect to take and or what I am wondering about

Pinterest Links

My Pinterest Boards: These are added to on a regular basis

Handbuilding
Pinch Pots ceramic-pinch-pot
Colis ceramic-coils
Slabs ceramic-slab-designs
Slabs Soft Leather ceramic-plates
Slab 3 Cylinders ceramic-cylinders
Slabs 2 Form Construction ceramic-boxes-wit-lids

Ceramic Surface Design ceramic-surface-design
Surface Designs 2 ceramic-emboss-impress

Other Ideas
Small Stuff ceramics-small-series
General ceramics

Beginning The Semester

Pre & Post
Artist's Statement... read Mrs Murray's, see Mrs Murray's Blog:

Form to think about Ceramics/Creativity & You!

Semester 2-Digital Portfolio Check List

Ceramics Course - High School

Example from 2012

http://artchicfortheweary.blogspot.com/

http://bellaceramics.blogspot.com/

Examples 2013

http://meaghanandceramics.blogspot.com/

http://carolynjohnsonceramics.blogspot.com/

The following Table will be to keep track of Student Progress and will be grades based on completeness at the end of every two weeks as a “Report Card”.

In some cases target due dates for handbuilding assignments varies depending on the complexity.

In addition to learning and practicing Ceramic Techniques students will also be learning how to use the Digital tools including Blogs and Digital photography available to artists today for sharing and documenting their journey.

Rationale:

1.   Portfolios are done Digitally as a way of documenting the journey and creating an anytime anywhere way to see the work done in class.

2.   Due the nature of 3 Dimensional Handbuilding clay work, storage and firing the Digital Portfolio provides and unique and ideal way to showcase the growth and progress of Ceramics

3.   All Assignments are designed to be open-ended allowing for individual choice combining various components of the Curriculum Wheel

4.   All assignments require Student Self Direction facilitated by the Teacher/Instructor. This allows for students to work independently and at his/her own pace.

5.   Students have the option to work on multiple assignments at once and to go ahead

6.   Once all Handbuilding assignments for the term are complete the student may practice Wheel Throwing

Term 1 Assignment Name	Plan	Process -stages	Product Green and Glaze	Reflection 8-10 sentence paragraph See rubric
Intro-Blog Establishment and Exploration Collection of Inspiration Style and Subject Matter Ancient and Modern	Create a Post for each of the HB assignments and find at least 2 examples for each. Post images to blog and write why you like the examples
Intro-Handbuilding 1 Pinch Pot & Coil Container. Ceramic Form Anatomy	Sketches of ideas (link)	2 photos	1-2 photos
Intro-Handbuilding 2 Combining Pinch Pots intro to additive and subtractive sculpting
Intro Handbuilding 3 Slabs & Surface Design (S.D.) S.D. 1 Texture
S.D. 2 Stencils
Intro Handbuilding 4 Slab Form in the Round Cylinder S.D. 3 Carving and Incising
Term 2
Intro Handbuilding 5 Altered Cylinder Paddling, Pinching, Darting
Intro Handbuilding 6 Slab Construction Polygon
Intro Handbuilding 7 Combination
Wrap up: Poster Board/Book Presentation