SU Fall 2017 Ceramics I
After the first two weeks working on the wheel pulling cylinders, the students receive their first assignment, which is designed to introduce a variety of hand-building techniques:
Ceramics Assignment #1:
6 hand built containers/forms with wheel-thrown elements
*One must have started from a rolled slab cylinder
*One must utilize a paper pattern
*Two must utilize a clay mold or texture in some fashion
*Two must have some portion thrown on the wheel
*One must have some type of handle
~It is perfectly acceptable (in fact, encouraged) to incorporate 2 or more of the above elements into one container
Extra credit will be assigned for containers that delight, surprise, amaze, confound us with creativity, or inspire the viewer to a higher plane of enlightenment.
This piece is approx. 8” square. This piece was burnished with a smooth rock and saggar fired -- a low-fire process, where the piece is placed in another clay container (or in this case aluminum foil = saggar) along with organic material, and other materials that create color and unique surface effects.