Creative “Slab”    
                          

This lesson will require you to build and embellish a bowl, vase, or cup made from a slab.    BE CREATIVE and EXPERIMENT with techniques that you aren’t familiar with.   We don’t want the same old slab! 

• This first step in this lesson is to find inspiration! Sights like Pinterest and Etsy will have examples of beautiful pottery created using slabs.  Print out the picture you are using for inspiration AND locate a tutorial on the way the piece was made.  If there isn’t any tutorial available, how else can you figure out how to make the piece?  Write the steps needed to create the piece.  Put all of this information in your sketchbook. 

• Draw a sketch of the piece you are going to create.   This will be a graded sketchbook assignment.  Review the sketchbook rubrics.  Include Elements and Principles of design, size, color...etc.

REFLECTION

Advanced Ceramics

Sketchbook Entry:

Between construction and glazing take a few minutes to view your work.  Review the vocabulary words and write a brief reaction to the stage you are at in this project. Draw a picture of what your artwork looks like and DESCRIBE it. 

Also  answer the following questions:

                How  and why has my piece changed since the initial sketch?

·                          What do I like most and least about my piece?

·                          What  did I have the most difficulty with during construction?

Designing for the Web

There are tools in Photoshop that can make elephant skin look like lizard skin. In this lesson you will delve deeper into the magic of photoshop. Take a look at your next lesson to find out more.

Creating a unique creature in Photoshop