Yasuhisa Kohyama

No Fear Monday! Attach well, mash-compress-slip and score- clay and you can do anything.

Student Work: Sneaker inspiration

Test Tile due Tuesday

6x6x1 inch square White Stoneware tile.

Half smooth/ Half Textured. Put 4 hole in corners.

Paint each of the slip in a stripe across tile: 1/3 1 coat, 1/3 2 coats, 1/3 3 coats
This will show us 1, 2 and 3 coats of the slip below glazes that will be assigned later.

Remember to finish your pinch cup... make another and make it better! Push even thickness of walls. Height, slip work, carving and creativity!

Also research a minimum of 3 Marilyn Levine sculptures.
Review Vocabulary and have a good weekend.  See you Tuesday!

Project 1: Trompe l'oeil Sneakers Due Sept 25th

Look, look again and learn. Using pinch and slab building techniques make an exact replica of a pair of sneakers. Reference the real shoe as well as your large black and white photographs to recreate and learn about building, modeling, carving and ultimately slipping with a gray scale your shoes. The best sculptures and learning will come from a pair of sneakers with variation of texture and a history of wear. The older the better!

remember the importance of slipping and scoring to attach. Think about all sides as well as interior and exterior of sneaker. really look at texture, stitching and rips or holes of your shoe(s). I'll give more details and demo the slab roller. Project due dry greenware in 3 weeks Thursday September 25th at the start of class.

For next Tuesday September 9th have your slab test tile (tbd) slipped and dry ready to put into kiln room. Complete your cup (there is time to start over or do 2 if your looking for that A and to learn) Have clay, tool, photos and be ready to start your shoes. Look up Marilyn Levine and print 3 of her sculptures to put into your sketchbook for reference and inspiration. Note title and say why you choose each work.

Have a good weekend!

Lucille Ball -Pottery Inspirational Wednesdays!

Decorating with Slip

Slip is a versatile and wonderful part of ceramics. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware. We made slip for attaching clay parts to each other aka slipping and scoring in class last week. This slip is not used for decorating. Decorating with slip that has colorants and/or other materials to make it flow and form to your pieces is a great way to paint your surface and get color and drawings on you forms. It can be used to create contrasting imagery or designs on your surface.

Here is a video from ceramic arts daily.
Remember a variety of brushes will give you more line variation. Best when applied to leatherhard ware. Building layers of color and scraping back or etching through drawings works well too! Stamps and stencils can give you more ideas to work with as well.

Here are some examples on Pinterest. More info during my demo in class.

Historic cup... our ancestors had a sense of humor

A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup, a Greedy Cup or a Tantalus cup) is a form of drinking cup that forces its user to imbibe only in moderation. Credited to Pythagoras of Samos, it allows the user to fill the cup with wine up to a certain level. If they fill the cup only to that level, the imbiber may enjoy a drink in peace. If they exhibit gluttony, however, the cup spills its entire contents out of the bottom (onto the lap of the immodest drinker).