Saturday, July 31, 2010

Peterson Art Center - Class #2

Somehow, I thought that my class was at noon until I got up there! Oops! It was actually good since I needed to eat some lunch. I also took a picture of the art center:
I also remembered to take some pics of my projects:

Below are the three bowls I made from last class. Today, I trimmed the bottoms and added the foot (the little lip around the bottom. They are waiting on the greenware self waiting to be fired this next week! Then they will be bisque, which also means I'll need to figure out what glaze or finishing technique to use...

The front two are porcelain and the back one is stoneware:
The teacher asked if there was anything I wanted him to throw so I can learn how. Hmmm...well, I'd really like to learn how to make a cupcake stand after the last one didn't work out as I had hoped! Bill showed me one of the techniques he uses to make cake stands (just a smaller version for a cupcake). Once I finished trimming the bowls, I made a cupcake stand as well:
It's thrown upside down. The clay ball is flattened out, then a ridge is made about an inch or so from the edge. From the ridge to the edge becomes the top of the cupcake stand. The middle is then made into a cylinder and flared out at the top (eventual bottom). Viola! An amazing cupcake stand!!

Here it is waiting and curing until next week when I will take it off the bat (the wooden circle). Then it will dry some more, get fired, get glazed (what color...), get fired, and hmmm... Then what will I do with it?
This is the moist room. The cupcake stand is covered with the red plastic, third shelf down from the top of the furthest shelves with my "cookie" on it (a little piece of dry clay with my initials on it).
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2 comments:

katie said...

Elaine Do you still work at Eats Shore?

August 25, 2010 at 8:27 AM
Elaine Shandra said...

Yes, I still work at East Shore.

August 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM

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Creativity Journal

Creativity: to create something novel and appropriate to the situation (see post: "What is Creativity," December 11, 2009)*

1. Create something out of the word simcha (joy/happiness/festivities/celebrations/etc)

2. Finish my chairs (See post, "Update: My Chairs")

3. Pottery

4. Start a children's Art class

5. Teach Art at a Women's Correctional Facility

6. Come up with assignments for the American Arts packet

7. Change the assignments in the Drama Costuming packet - the students will create 4-5 female and male costumes from the 11 time periods included in the packet, plus the final instead of only writing (copying and pasting) info about each time period.

8. Create a book exchange/book club for illiteracy/aliteracy

9. Learn Art in a foreign country

10. Write a book

11. Start a children's magazine for children by children and publish it on the web.

12. Create trees and hands (not necessarily together, but maybe?)

13. Blog book - only novel in the sense that it's my own writing!

14. Create a chess set (even though I don't personally play chess, lol!)

15. S'mores with a twist

16. 3D art - I admire other forms of art, but I personally only truly enjoy the physicallity and manipulative quality of 3D art. There's something truly living in 3D art that I miss in 2D art.

17. Sign language hands (alphabet/words)

18. Hands of twisted metal coils

19. use different types of materials to create imprints in clay (wire mesh)

20. A shelf/centerpiece holder (a couple of bricks on the bottom, long, thin wood, 12" width laying on top, block (thicker than the bricks on the bottom - 6"?) in middle, and a short piece of wood on the very top).

21. vase (fill baggie with rice and seal the bag, wheel thrown then carefully squish).

22. 3D collage out of meaningful paper.

23. Babushka doll style vase with side cutout (possibly put a piece of glass in the side opening)

24. Babushka dolls - make smallest one first, with side opening and something inside(?), then the next biggest - place small one inside next biggest when done with the bottom of it and secure the two together. Continue this process with side openings in each so that you can see all the way through to the inside "jem" in the smallest one!

25. atlas - split into pieces and reassemble into something new - mobile? encase each piece in between glass sheets, hang as a put together puzzle.

26. paper dolls & scenery out of different types of paper, paintings, collages, maps, etc.

27. A storm cloud with a silvery lining (mobile?) ceramic/paper mache

28. "baby ducklings" for each child, somehow uniquely different somehow, name and date of birth.

29. "stained glass" with veggies/fruits & other natural things. Lacquered and soldered.

30. Men's dress shirts with faux cuff links printed onto the cuffs or fancy/fun buttons to replace the buttons on a standard dress shirt. button clips? a button cover-up to go over existing buttons without changing the button itself.

31. A pottery wheel bat that has form attachments in order to create smooth indentations in the "bottom" of the piece being thrown.

32. "Quilt" of the six-day-Christian-creation-period.

33. A dollhouse book for paper dolls! such a cool idea!!

34. print your own fabric using a large "rolling pin" stamp?

35. Cloth nesting dolls

36. map topography - cut out all of the countries and continents and islands, layer then largest to smallest hang them slightly apart. From an actual map? or traced out onto something else?

*Please be creative and use your own ideas and not mine. Although if you are inspired by my ideas and the inspiration and not the idea itself is used, then by all means, use the inspiration!!

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I love visiting with family and friends, reading, teaching, art, and day dreaming about world travel, especially going to Ireland someday. In 2009, I earned a MAED in Elementary Education. In addition, I completed both the Reading and Elementary Math Endorsements during the 2013-2014 school year. Currently, I teach first grade and love it!

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