Warm up: (in sketchbook)
Draw and label the followingFettling Knife
Clay
Banding Wheel
Clay Sponge
Wooden Rib
Wire cutter
Wire Loop Tool
Needle Tool
Clay Vocabulary
• Wedge – knead clay (like dough) to align platelets and expel (AKA…get rid
of) air bubbles.
• Score – Scratching the surface of clay in order to attach 2 pieces together
• Slip – Clay water
• Greenware- Clay that is not fired*
• Bisqueware- Clay that has been fired once
• Glazeware- clay (bisqueware) that has been silica coated and fired a
second time.
• *leather hard –clay that is strong enough to hold shape but can still be
smoothed
• * bone dry – when clay is dry and no longer cold to the touch and can be
fired
• Kiln- oven used to bake clay at high temperatures.
• Pinch Pot- the method of making a vessel by which the clay walls are
thinned by pinching with the thumb and forefinger
• Coil Pot- the method of creating a vessel by stacking and joining coils of
clay one on top of the other
A Bit of Clay History
• Originally clay vessels were
rounded so as to avoid sharp
edges, which could crack easily.
• Clay was originally fired in pits,
known as pit firing.
• The potter’s wheel was invented
in Mesopotamia between 6,000 Earliest known figures
from
and 4,000 bce.
Red
• Stone glazeware was created in 29,000-25,000 bce. Etruscan
Figure Ware Vase,
th
Chine as early as 15 c. bce.
330 BCE, south
Italy.
• Artisans usually got clay from the
earth that was available around
them.
The Funk Art Movement
• An artistic movement that
began in the Bay Area of
California in the 1960’s.
• Like Pop Art, Funk Artist’s
often depicted objects from
our consumer culture.
• Unlike New York, which was
the center of the art world
and focused mainly on
abstract painting at the
time, Funk Art depicted real
objects in ceramics.
• Images were often funny to
the point of self deprecating
absurdity.
Robert Arneson, Self Portrait.
Viola Frey, Firesuit, 1983, Man Observing, 1984, and Weeping Woman 1990-91.
http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/pro
file.jsp?essid=4954
Viola Frey, Man with Jar II, 1999.
Standing Woman, 2003.
TRANSFORM
1
a : to change in composition or structure
b : to change the outward form or appearance of
c : to change in character or condition : convert
2
: to subject to mathematical transformation
3
: to cause (a cell) to undergo genetic transformation
Your mission: to transform a coil
pot into….
Blue Cocoon on white semi-porcelain,
Judit Varga, 2013.
Twisted Yellow semi-porcelain Cocoon,
Judit Varga, 2013.
Flora?
…fauna
…a sea creature?
…something with wings?
…what else can you imagine?
Planning Your Design
1. Define Transform.
2. What will your clay pot look like? Sketch a design for
your pot.
3. What will you transform your clay pot into? Sketch a
design for the final transformation.
4. How will you combine your coil pot with your
transformation?
5. Create a design for your sculpture.
1. The sculpture may not be any smaller than the palm of
your hand or larger than your hand.
2. You must have designs for your sculpture from at least 2
sides.
3. You must include at least 2 patterns and 3 different types
of texture in your drawing.
Warm Up: Write down Coil Pot Building directions
1. Make a clay slab with
a rolling pin
2. Cut a slab based,
¼ inch thick
5. Cut coil as illustrated 6. Pinch coil onto slab
on the inside
3. Roll coils by hand
7. Merge coils,
Using both hands
4. Score and slip base
And apply coil
8. Do the same with
The outside
Completed Pot Example
Today
• Warm Up
• Open Up to your design for your coil
transformation
• Intro. To Coil Building
• Create a coil pot using the correct methods:
1. Did you score and slip?
2. Is the inside as smooth as a cereal bowl?