Fourth 9 weeks Ceramics
MUSHROOM MAN
The student will use clay and various tools to create a mushroom house/guy (or box) out of a slab of clay. Students will then use glaze to decorate their mushroom houses after they’ve been fired in the kiln. Student will also learn: Properties of clay, how it is made, what it is made of, firing techniques, wedging, score & slip, and proper storage. History: Students will view PP slides and video of how clay has been used since the beginning of mankind Artist Reference: Past Students Examples & in class demonstrations Vocabulary: wedging, quartz inversion, score & slip, firing, Grade: 1 participation 1 classwork 1 final project TEKS: Art Level 1 C. 1 A B C; 2 A B D 3. A Mini Room Diorama or Mini Landscape
For this next project you will be making a little diorama of a room. A little replica of a room, from a real life or fictitious situation. You will want your room to have interest to its viewer, something about it needs to catch the viewers eye and bring them into the room and make them ask questions. have it tell a story or evoke an emotion. Where is your room? Is it in a hospital? A home? A school? A castle dungeon? Is it in a space ship? In the future? In a different culture? Is the room new and pristine? Is the room old and abandoned? Not only making the room you will need to add all the stuff in detail that belongs in the room… Furniture, trash, animals, rugs, windows, wallpaper, pealing plaster, people? Who knows...? you are the artist!
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TIKI MUGS
Aloha ! Ready for an Luau! For this assignment students will use a subtraction relief techniques to carve designs in to slab made cylinders creating Tiki Mugs. History of the idea behind Tiki Statues. Māori mythology, Tiki is the first man created by either Tūmatauenga or Tāne. He found the first woman Marikoriko in a pond; she seduced him and he became the father of Hine-kau-ataata. By extension, a tiki is a large or small wooden or stone carving in humanoid form, although this is a somewhat archaic usage in the Māori language. Carvings similar to tikis and coming to represent deified ancestors are found in most Polynesian cultures. They often serve to mark the boundaries of sacred or significant sites. FREE CHOICE!
You have learned so much in ceramics... building methods and techniques... glazing techniques and the potters wheel. now it is you chance to make something awesome. Think back to all the different artist and their artwork Bettge has shown you over the school year. |
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