Projects
This project, which focused on the element of shape, could be used to hold paints.
Personal Palette Project
Plastic
This tool is used for sculpting and pushing around clay. It is mostly made of wood, though it can be plastic.
Modeling tool
This method is used to create flat pieces of clay. You can create it by rolling or throwing clay.
Slab
This element focuses on how something feels or how something looks like it feels. Examples are rough, bumpy, smooth, etc.
Texture
This was the only project this semester that directly required artists to use the pinch method.
Pinch Pot Animal Project
This stage of clay can be used to "glue" pieces of clay together.
Slip
This tool is used for carving out clay and creating subtractive texture or hollowing out a form.
Ribbon tool
This is a method of creating texture where artists add clay onto more clay.
Additive Texture
This element is defined by length, width, and height, creating something 3-D.
Form
This project required artists to reflect on how food builds community in their life.
Festive Food Sculpture Project
This stage of clay is a great time for carving and detail work.
Leather hard
This tool is used to flatten clay evenly.
Rolling pin
This is a method that requires artists to roll long, snake like pieces of clay.
Coil method
This element focuses on characteristics like saturation, brightness, and hue.
Color
This project challenged artists to use the coil method to explore types of line.
Coil Letter Vessel Project
This is the stage that clay needs to be before being fired in the kiln.
Bone dry
This tool is perfect for getting into hard to reach areas and smoothing bumps.
Sponge on a stick
This method of construction keeps clay sticking together and ensures attachments do not fall off
Score, slip, smooth
This element has many types, such as straight, wavy, diagonal, zigzag, etc.
Line
Artists learned how color portrays emotion in this project.
Moody Mug Project
While not actually clay, this is what clay turns into after being fired in the kiln once.
Bisqueware
This tool is used for smoothing and blending large areas.
Rib tool
You can use a hump or slump piece for this method.
Mold method
This principle focuses on harmonious, cohesive parts to create a balanced whole.
Unity