Monday, January 7, 2013

Advance Ceramics: Week 13

Students are busy working away on my lesson plan for the TPA; "Line in Real Life".  Students were face with a challenging project of creating Applied Art (functional objects with an artistic flair). Students are creating open coiled bowls that depict real life images from their every day lives.  Some of the students have incorporated lines from crosses, spider webs, metal gates, roots, hair, railroad tracks, headphones, etc.  I'm loving the students' creativity and they are working so well under the strict deadline.  I am very pleased to see how efficient the students are with the limited amount of time they have to finish their projects.  Below are examples of students' work in progress--I can't wait to see their finished projects!


 
 
 

11 comments:

  1. Love these! What are the students forming the bowls around? Does the whole thing go into kiln and burn off?

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  2. I'm curious, too. What did you use for the form?

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  3. It looks like a bowl covered with plastic wrap.

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  4. It does look like plastic wrap on a bowl. I am curious how to let it dry though. Won't it crack since it shrinks slightly as it dries?

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  5. What are these project built on? You can email me at linda.vanvleet@k12.sd.us and let me know! thank you!!!

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  6. Can you please give instructions so I can also use the lesson? How do you let dry w/o cracking? mblouin@ beecher 200u.org

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    1. My guess would be to cover them with more plastic and let them dry out slowly. When nearly dry remove bowl carefully from the former using the cling film to help. Let dry out again slowly and then biscuit fire. I am a ceramic artist and this would be my solution.
      Happy potting. Joy Wardell

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  7. I have done a similar project and I got my students to create their bowls over plaster molds which I made. I also got them to cover the mold in strips of newspaper or clingfilm first to make it easier to get the bowl off.

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  8. Would styrofoam balls work? They would burn off and not be so rigid S to cause shrinkage breakage maybe

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  9. New Age gurus were quick to grasp onto these concepts because many of the New Age religions are based not on sin and redemption but the power of one's own mind and spirit. a course in miracles

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