Today with the Art 1's we started the awesome process of building a clay sculpture. With our ideas planned out and having been introduced to the history and techniques associated with clay building the students were excited to get to work.
Before getting started we did a quick review of the "10 Golden Rules of Ceramics".
Shout out to the awesome contributes of the INCREDIBLE @RT DEPARTMENT.
A link to their page and the 10 rules is below.
To get a true understanding of the entire building process we started with wedging our own pieces of clay. We learned that the reason we wedge our clay is to remove any air bubbles that might be trapped underneath the surface of the clay. They were told the horrible story of my experience with poorly wedged clay (or a really bad scoring & slip method, I can take the blame where blame is earned).
For whatever the reason my ceramic piece and from my mistakes my students learn and hopefully we don't have any unfortunate accidents this year.
You know for a broken vessel, these are still some great photos... :)
Updates coming soon!
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