Wednesday, September 18, 2013

{Ceramics 1} Focus/Closure for Wednesday, 9/18

{Ceramics 1}  

Focus Activity:  (Write down)

When making your Organic Pinch Pot, make sure that you are pinching your walls to a quarter (1/4) of an inch thick, BEFORE changing your shape so that it is organic.

Foot:  The base of a pot upon which it can stand.


Objectives:

*Continue working on Symmetrical and Organic Pinch Pots.
*Add a foot to pot when it is at the leather-hard stage.
*Burnish pot when it is at the leather-hard stage.
*Write your first name and last initial on bottom of pot when it is done. 


Closure:  (Write down)

Hand-building: Making clay forms by non-mechanical process (not on the wheel), such as pinching, coiling, and slab building.