Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Semester 2- Intro- Divide and Conquer

4 Components of Visual Design 

  • Style
  • Subject Matter
  • Elements 
  • Principles


4 Components of Ceramic Forms

  • Handbuilding
  • Technique
  • Form
  • Function


List of techniques... each student will work with a partner to Research examples and tutorials on the following Project Ideas

Groups will post examples to their blog and share during class while students take notes and create thumbnail sketches





Link to Murray Curriculum overview below:
lynseymurray.dms-curriculum-overview

Scraffito Tutorial



Pinterest Ideas

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Carving on the Surface of a Form- Process


Step 1 Create a Design using Simple shape and Line


Practice with tools the technique of carving using radial Balance


Research Symbolism


Sketch more ideas using symbolism

 Finalize Design with Shapie

On the back of the FINAL use water-soluble marker to trace over lines




Transfer line design front Face #1

transfer line design back Face #2
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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Altering the Cylinder- Tripod Pot-Pinching-Surface Design

The demo below is really cool... If you would like to make you form a slightly altered cylinder there are many possibilities...

Tripod pot



Vocabulary

Found objects for Texture

Template

Lugs


Paddling
Pinching
Darting

Another persons Blog


Volume

Cylinder in the round

Equilateral Triangle

Planes

Various Stages to ADD Surface Design



Below a student made this squared form