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

 

Events to stay Inspired!

 

Fort Point Studios- Southie

Local Ceramisist Artist- Linda Huey