small tiles for wind chimes

Small Shapes cut from slabs

Radial Design and Engobes

Cute Pinch Pots - Laura Davidson Fort Point Studios

Monogram Mug

Criteria for Success

Design imagery, Line & Shape in a composition (use of Space) that is 5x12"
1. PLAN

• What will you use as Symbolism of Shape?
• Will you create a pattern that you will superimpose your initial to?

2. PREPARE:
Template to create Form.. cut slabs

Transfer image using method used previously for initial stamp..

• What are the Steps?
• Why do this

3. PRACTICE

Using Scraffito tool begin by carving beginning lines

1. Tools and Tips from another Artist
2. and another....
3. and another!
4. Inspiration abound!!!

4. Keep removing clay material to create low relief Sculpture

Side 1

Front

side 2

Tamoku and Robins Egg Glasze

Example pf low relief in Culture: Ancient Civilization

Conception of limestone relief of "Dying Lioness" from Nineveh, circa 650 B.C.

Add caption

Add caption

Planning & Preparing- Illuminated Letter Comp

It takes time to Plan:
Sometimes I look at ideas that others have done and then I begin to adapt those ideas into something original. I knew I wanted to use my Initial for my compositions and I love Illuminated Letters

  

From there I begin to make my beginning sketches to PLAY with the possibilites

 I also enjoy working with Symbolism so referring back to the motif research.. I think of and look at symbols that represent aspects of my PERSONAL identity. I believe anything we create should be something that we connect with personally

 Once I had my letter design I realized I had to do something with the negative space so I created this pattern varying the size of one motif

 all of a sudden it came to me!!!!.. I abandoned the pattern I created and created my final composition using larger shape to break up the whole space of the cylinder template

 I then created this to do my transfer onto the clay this is particularly important if your letter needs to be in reverse to transfer correctly (ie letters B, C, D, E, F, G J, L, N, R,  P, D, S, Z)

Creating Cylinders with Slabs

Glazing the high fire

The Shelf

High Fire Laguana

Fall Motifs for Forms! agggh!

Plan - Shapely Tiles/Ornaments

Ceramics 1

Week 6

This week here you will:

Turn in a PLAN for a pair of salt and pepper shakers or votive

Begin to hand build with pinch pots a SPHERE form using two hemi-spheres 

see PINCH POT TAB for details http://murrayceramics.blogspot.com/p/pinch-pot-ideas.html

In between and in addition:

You will use your stamps or texture rolls and or found texture objects to create:

Ornaments/Tiles

Using “cookie cutter” Shapes or create your own stencil to reproduce your shape…cut slabs into tiles or ornaments and texture them.... 

These will be painted after firing using acrylic or other media 

You may also use Engobes and scraffito a Line design into the shape

 

Click HERE for more ideas of how any medium can be used on Bisque

Non Traditional Glazing

Rubric for Blog Post Reflections

Tealight Votives

Same Objective, combining forms using the pinch pot method... different Function!!!

Combining Forms- Pinch Pots -Step by Ste

 

Salt & Pepper - Planning and Preparing

Things to cover...
How to draw simple Forms
Cube, Cylinder, Sphere, Cone

Brain storm How to TRANSFORM a Form into something
Altering a Form

Things that have Basic Sphere Form
Basic Sphere- Cylinders

Form & Function

Cut Holes only when leather hard... use a template for Uniformity...

5/8" Stoppers