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!