Pinch Pot Evaluation

Attach a picture of your finished pinch pot.

1. CRAFTSMANSHIP: Is your project will made?  (All cracks smoothed out, consistent wall thickness, no heavy bottom?)  What technical difficulties did you have in putting it together?  Did you include a foot and one other applied clay feature (i.e. a handle, lip)?

2. DESIGN QUALITY: Were your design ideas original and imaginative?  How did you create texture?

3. EFFORT/AMBITION: Did you work hard?  Did you go beyond the basic requirements of the assignments (explain)?

4. Any other thoughts?

5.  Grade yourself for                   EFFORT ___/10
                                        VISUAL SUCCESS ___/10

Band Member Paintings

My students are creating Punk Heads out of clay, inspired by the wonderful artwork by Pond Cove Elementary students.  Below are photographs of the original band member designs by the younger students.  Finished ceramics pieces are soon to follow!

Wild Creature Self-Evaluation

Attach a photo of your finished creature.  Place your creature on a dark background.  Your creature should take up at least 75% of the photograph!  Take a few pictures so you can choose the best one.

Attach a photo of the original design that you received in your sketch book.  Make sure the page is straight and flat.

Answer these questions:

• What was the organism that you sculpted?  What do you know about this organism?
• Did you interpret the creature in any way?  Or did you stay true to the original drawing?
• What was challenging with working in clay for the first time this semester?  What was easy for you?  What did you learn that will help you in future projects?

Punk Heads

Punk Farm by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The Beginning Ceramics students are teaming up with students from Pond Cove!  The elementary school students are reading Punk Farm and creating artwork inspired by the book.  Punk Farm is about a group of farm animals that create a punk band and rock out while the farmer is in bed!  The second graders painted their own original punk rocker.  My ceramic students are taking these paintings and creating a punk head inspired by the paintings:

DECIDE: Choose a 2nd grader's band member

OBSERVE: Sketch the band member.

DRAW: Design your Punk Head

         - Start with an egg shape for the head

         - Be inspired by the band member, do not duplicate

CREATE: Make 2 pinch pots equal in size and attach them together at the mouths.  Create the skeleton first: make indents for the eye sockets, under the cheekbones, and mouth.  Sculpt clay and attach to clay head.  Work in layers: i.e. attach eyeballs first and then eyelids; attach teeth before lips.

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Library Exhibit

Wild Creatures

Each student is given a sketch book for my class.  In it they take notes, doodle, sketch ideas, and finalize projects.  I inherit these sketchbooks from the high school biology teacher (yay recycling!).

One of the last assignments in the biology sketchbooks was this: The Future is Wild.   Students were asked to hypothesize and sketch what one chosen organism may look like in thousands of years.  As an introduction into working with clay, I asked my students to sculpt the biology student's drawing into clay.  

The Flying Shark
Sculpted by Nick P.

The Taintor Squirrell
Sculpted by Tucker P.

Eagalus Americanus V3
Sculpted by Emma S.

Grey Scale Composition

Using the principles and elements of design where appropriate, please respond to the following self-critique questions.  Be sure to answer all parts of the question.

1.  Reflecting back on your process in creating your final design, what difficulties did you encounter?  Did you overcome these challenges?  How so?

2. What feedback did you receive from peers and Ms. DeWan?  What did you agree or disagree with?

3.  Discuss the quality of your craftsmanship?  (Shapes cut out carefully, everything glued down completely, etc)  How does this affect your design?

4.  Which principle of art did you choose to represent?  Do you think it was successful?  Why or why not?

5. How successful do you think your final design is aesthetically?  Use art vocabulary in your response. (click here)


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Utilizzando i principi e gli elementi di design, se del caso, si prega di rispondere alle seguenti domande auto-critica. Assicurarsi di rispondere a tutte le parti della questione.

1. Riflettendo sul processo nel creare il vostro disegno finale, quali difficoltà avete incontrato? Avete superare queste sfide? Come così?

2. Che risposte avete ricevuto da colleghi e Ms. DeWan? Che cosa è d'accordo o in disaccordo con?

3. Discutere la qualità della tua arte? (Forme tagliato con cura, tutto incollato completamente, ecc) che modo questo influisce il vostro disegno?

4. Quale principio dell'arte hai scelto di rappresentare? Pensi che è successo? Perché o perché no?

5. Quanto successo pensate che il vostro disegno finale è esteticamente? Utilizzare arte vocabolario nella vostra risposta. (click here)