{Ceramics 1} Focus/Closure for Monday, 9/16

{Ceramics 1} 

Focus Activity:

Pinching:  A hand-building technique that involves squeezing the clay, usually between fingers and thumb.

Symmetrical Pinch Pot:  A pinch pot that is the same all the way around and the rim resembles a circle.

Organic Pinch Pot:  Free-flowing shape that can remind one of a shape found in nature.

Objectives for today:

*Sketchbooks will be graded and photographs of assessment pots will take place today and tomorrow.

*Continue working on Symmetrical Pinch Pot.

*Add foot to Symmetrical Pot if the pot is leather-hard.

*Start working on Organic Pinch Pot.

Closure: 

Plastic Clay: Moist clay that is capable of being molded, formed, or modeled.

 

Leather-hard Clay:  The stage between plastic and bone dry when clay has dried, but may still be carved or joined to other pieces.

Bone dry Clay:  Stage of drying when moisture in the clay body has evaporated so the clay surface no longer feels cold.  Your pot will look chalky and light colored.  This is a very fragile stage and pots can be easily broken until fired.