Dec 17th

What would Ms. S give this mug project?

Nice job guys!

Dec 16th

Lets practice grading a few mugs together.

Dec 12th-continuing

Today we will be talking about handles, and learning how to attach them.

Dec. 11th

Wheel throwing demo today, for those who want a challenge.

Dec 10th

Continuing

Dec 9th

Continuing with our designs.

Dec 5th-continuing

If we are ready, we will begin the introduction to the next project.

Boxes Glazed:

Dec 4th

Our last day to finish our boxes in class, I love the creativity! Lets start thinking about glazing techniques we could apply to our boxes.

Great Job!

Dec 3rd

Daily artist.

Dec 1st-continuing

Welcome back!

My hope is that everyone has or is about ready to put together their box. Today I will demo the next step, cutting the fun lid.

For those who are completely finished there will be slab projects ready for you to begin.

Nov. 21st

Continuing!

Nov. 14th-continuing on the document camera

We will continue drawing the sides to our project. A demonstration on slab, and construction will begin over the document camera today.

Nov. 12th-13th

Today we will turn in our stamp worksheet, and begin sketching for our box project.

Nov 10th

Today I will introduce stains and their application to your wall sconce.

Very nice guys!

Nov. 7th

Lets finish up work!

From Pottery 1

Nov. 6th

We will continue glazing our 5 stamps; if there is enough time we will glaze items already bisque fired on the cart.

Nov. 4th-5th

Lets get out those stamps, and begin various glazing techniques!

Student Sgraffito examples:

From Pottery 1

Wax resist:

From Pottery 1

Color mixing: Lavender then pine green

From Pottery 1

Nov. 3rd

Lets finish up our wall sconces, if finished feel free to glaze projects coming out of the kiln!

Oct 24th

Lets stamp our stamps, and then begin our texture project. Unfortunately Google is experiencing some technical difficulty and I cannot get the power point to load. Stay tuned for the slides.

Oct 21st-23rd

Work day. We will be continuing with our Dia de los Muertos project, and for those who are finished they may glaze projects or work on extra credit assignments.

Oct 20th

Daily artist

Oct 17th

Today we will jump back in to our Day of the Dead wall hanging, these are looking really awesome!

Oct 16th

What a strange week! Welcome back, lets look at a Day of the Dead artist for inspiration, and walk through a few more steps on the document camera together.

Oct 14th

I hope your 4 day weekend was superb! Its the start of a new six weeks, lets change seats and get back to glazing.

Oct 9th

Lets glaze those coil pots! The coil pot project will be on the second six weeks grades.

From Pottery 1

From Pottery 1

From Pottery 1

Oct 8th

The next few steps will be done over the document camera, as well as how to make a rose/flower three dimensionally.

From Pottery 1

Oct 7th

Lets begin on our final composition on the back of the worksheet. I will demonstrate how to slab roll clay, and the first few steps to this project.

Oct 6th

I am excited to introduce our new project, inspired by Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead.
Today we will be working on our worksheet, and designing a final composition for the clay wall hanging.
My worksheet example:
The final product:

Oct 3rd

Our glazed objects are fresh out of the kiln! Lets talk about what we see! Today is a work day; finish projects, glaze etc...

Oct 2nd

Today we will take a look at chops, or oriental stamps. We will continue with our stamp creations.

Oct 1st

Lets transition into a smaller shorter project. Learning about stamps.

Sep 26th-30th

Great job glazing yesterday, lets get back to our coil project at hand.

Sep 25th

Today we will begin our introduction into glazing!

Sep 24th

The coil examples we have seen so far, all have been modern. Lets take a look at some coiled pottery from the Jomon culture.

Sep 23rd

I really like what I am seeing in class! Lets take our time and really create something we are proud of!

Sep 22nd

Today we will be working on our coiled vessels, I would like to share a coil artist before class for inspiration!

Sep 19th

In class work session, lets get COIL-Crazy!

Sep 18th

Today we will be going over the project requirements and completing a few rough sketches.

From Pottery 1

Sep 17th

For most pottery classes we will be beginning an introduction into what and how clay is formed, as well as beginning to watch/make coils.

Your projects are so unique!!

Sep 16th

Quite a few people forgot to sign off on their clean up chart, for participation points please remember to do so, they add up! Today is an all class period work day. These are looking great!

Sep 15th

Today we will go over clean up procedures, tools, and different ways to apply texture to our spoon holder. These are looking great!

Sep 12th

Our bases are formed! Today, over the document camera, we will discuss how to slip and score our added elements as well as how to create legs/tails/wings without them sticking out. Lets get creative!

Sep 11th

Today we will be finishing up our second pinch pot, learning to slip and score, and creating the base for our creature! All slides shown here will be demonstrated in class under the document camera.

Remember, no thicker no thinner, we want all the walls to be even and roughly the size of your pinky on its side!

Sep 10th

Todays exercises will be done on the document camera. We will be sketching ideas for our animal/creature spoon holder made from two pinch pots. If there is time, we will begin trying to make a pinch pot with even walls.

Sep 8th

Lets finish up those clay cranes today. The last half of class I will demonstrate how to make a pinch pot, and we will begin brainstorming animal/creatures for this first project.

Sep 8th

I hope you brought your plastic bags today, because we will be learning how to wedge and starting our crane replica's!

Sep 5th

Today we will finish listening to Sadako, and begin create an origami peace crane ourselves! This mini project will serve as our introductory clay project.

Sep 4th

Lets re-cap for our new classmates. Today is the last day to work on sketchbooks, if finished I have a lot you can help out with!

Sep. 3rd

Welcome! Today we will be going over classroom rules, expectations, and jumping into sketchbook creation.

Class Syllabus -Return this signed by Monday and receive 5pts extra credit!