Wheel Throwing Demo & Eval.

Wheel Thrown Cylinder: Self Evaluation

Name: ____________________________   Date: ___________   Block: ________

Please reflect upon both your process and resulting products in answering the following questions:

1)  Did you throw a bowl and a mug on the wheel and glaze it?

Yes _____ No _____

2)  Did you successfully center your vessels?

Yes _____ No _____

3)  Are your vessels symmetrical?

Yes _____ No _____

4)  Are the walls of your vessels a consistent and even thickness?

Yes _____ No _____

5)  Do your vessels have an interesting profile?

Yes _____ No _____

6)  Are the rims of your vessels level and smooth?

Yes _____ No _____

7)  Are the bases of your vessels successfully trimmed?

Yes _____ No _____

8)  Is your glaze application free of technical blemishes (bare spots, drips, “crawling”)?

Yes _____ No _____

9)  Do your vessels feel light?

Yes _____ No _____

Beg. Ceramics: 5th Grader Paintings

The Beginning Ceramics students are collaborating with the 5th grade students at Cape Elizabeth Middle School on a fun project!  The high school students have crafted a large coil pot.  They chose a painting created by a 5th grader and are interpreting it onto their coil pot.  Below are all the 5th grader paintings.

Adv. Ceramics: Altered Teapot

Ally W.

Morgan C.

Allison B.

Matt F.

Sarah S.

Kia H.

Liz R.

Altered Teapot

Self Evaluation

Post a picture of your finished teapot.  Download the image of your teapot from this blog post.

Explain how each feature is integrated into your teapot.   example:  Giraffe Teapot

                                                                                           Body:        Body of the giraffe

                                                                                           Lid:           One spot on its back

                                                                                           Spout:       Neck

                                                                                           Handle:     Tail

What techniques did you use in building your teapot? Wheel thrown, pinch, slab, coil...

Did you have any challenges in creating your piece?  How did you resolve them?

What is the most successful aspect of your finished piece?

Art Fundies: Final Painting

Entire still-life display

1. Looking through a cardboard viewfinder, observe the entire still-life display.  Find a few compositions that you think work well.

2. Use my iPad Mini to take a picture of your favorite composition.

3. Adjust the colors and levels of the photograph on iPhoto on my computer.  Crop photograph.

4. Print.

5. Trim off white border.

6.  Measure and draw a 1-inch grid on your photograph:

7. Pick the size of your canvas.

8. Tape all 4 sides of your canvas, creating a 1" border.

9. Grid your canvas PROPORTIONATE to your printed photograph.  You will end up with the exact same number of squares in your grid, but they will be larger than 1".  Use fractional math to figure out how large to make your squares.

10. Draw the photograph onto your canvas.

Art Fundies: Betty White!

Students are learning about basic color theory and how to achieve the illusion of form with acrylic paints.

We worked on "test strips:" blending paints to make a seamless transition.  We painted a value (monochromatic) scale, a warm-to-cool scale, and a complementary scale.

We are using these test strips to "paint" a portrait of Betty White! I found an image of Betty White (wearing bunny ears, of course!) and projected it onto the wall and traced her outline onto a large piece of paper.

I color coded the shadows of her face so it would make applying the cut up test strips easier.  Stay tuned for updates!