Elements, Principles and Pinch Pots

Footer Text 9/1/2015 1 Elements, Principles and Clay • Elements: • Principles: o Form: o Emphasis: • When space is • Calling attention to an added to a object by using a focal shape. point • 3 Dimensional • One object stands out objects have more than everything Height, Width, else! Depth. (geometric or organic.)

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Footer Text 9/1/2015 6 Footer Text 9/1/2015 7 Elements, Principles and Clay • Elements: • Principles: o Texture: refers to o Contrast: the surface quality • the arrangement of opposite elements or "feel" of an (light vs. dark colors, object (ie. rough, rough vs. smooth smooth, soft) textures, large vs. • Actual texture -can be small shapes, etc.) in a piece so as to felt create visual • Implied (or simulated) interest, excitement textures – shown and drama. through drawing

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Footer Text 9/1/2015 12 Clay • Made from earth, water and fire • Clay is different from mud, since it has plasticity: ability to hold together while it’s being shaped

Footer Text 9/1/2015 13 Clay Terms • Ceramics: Clay objects that hold their shape after they have been heated to specific temperatures.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 14 Clay Terms • Pottery: Functional ware, such as vases, pots, bowls or plates

Footer Text 9/1/2015 15 Clay Terms • Wedge: pushing the clay on a flat surface to improve the workability of the clay and eliminate air pockets.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 16 Clay Terms • Kiln: A structure built to fire clay at high temperatures

Footer Text 9/1/2015 17 Clay Terms • Fire: Heating pottery or clay sculptures to a temperature high enough to render it hard and durable.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 18 Clay Terms • Hand Building Methods: o Pinch method: Technique that involves squeezing the clay, usually between thumb and fingers.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 19 Clay Terms • Hand Building Methods: o Coil Method: Attaching rolls of clay together to form pottery.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 20 Clay Terms • Hand Building Methods: o Slab Method: Technique that involves shaping clay into a broad, flat, thick piece.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 21 Clay Terms • Clay Stages: o Plastic: clay is fresh out of the bag. Very soft and able to use.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 22 Clay Terms • Clay Stages: o Greenware-unfired pottery or sculpture o Leatherhard: between plastic and bone dry, when clay is dry, but can still be carved or joined to other pieces o Bone dry: Stage of drying when moisture in the clay body has evaporated. You can no longer work with this clay. Ready to be fired.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 23 Clay Terms • Clay Stages: o Bisqueware- has been fired once. Ready to glaze. o Glazeware- has been fired with glaze which forms a coating of glass on the surface.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 24 Clay Terms • Joining Techniques: o Score: Scratching the edges of the clay before joining them together.

Footer Text 9/1/2015 25 Clay Terms • Joining Techniques: o Slip: A mixture of clay and water used to join scored pieces of clay.

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Footer Text 9/1/2015 27 Pinch Pot Ideas Organic Organic Geometric Geometric Sketch Your Ideas: Sketch Your Ideas: Give Color to Your Sketch • This is just a sketch, not a final drawing • You are just taking notes on what you want to do for your pinch pot • The color is the glazes you will chose after we have fired the piece Remember to show: • Texture • Form • Emphasis • Contrast • And Creativity o These are the objectives you will be graded on You will using the pinch pot method, but you can create anything from functional to simply decorative.

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