Saturday, October 6, 2012

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
 


Non Traditional Glazing


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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