Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Peterson Art Center - Class # 3 & 4

In pottery class number three, I made a mushroom-like cake stand, then proceeded to trim the top of this stand during class number four. however, my trimming was too aggressive and the top detached from the base (the base is the bowl shape on the left and the circle is the top):
I trimmed the other cake stand as well and managed to nick the edge, so it's rather thin and not as even as it once once. Kind of sad, but still OK for a first try so I kept it. It is now waiting to be bisque fired. Then I will glaze it. Perhaps this yellow/brown color (the bottom bowl - I also dipped my stoneware bowl in this yellow!):

While waiting for the wax (keeps the glaze from sticking to the bottom) to dry on the feet of my bisque-fired bowls from week one (we could only find two of them - hopefully the other one will be found next time), I made this cute little bud vase (below). I was attempting to make a taller one, but needed more clay than I used. Next time, I want to make a large bowl (salad size), another cupcake stand, and a tall vase (8" - 10"). It's quite ambitious, but will be lots of fun too!
Once the little vase was as good as it was going to get (it was getting temperamental due to a lot of water), I dipped (glazed) my two bowls. In the top picture, you can see the two bowls. The right one is going to be the yellowish/brown color as previously mentioned and the left one will have a celadon green rim with a white base. More of the celadon got on it than I originally wanted. Hopefully it will still be pretty when it comes out. The bottom picture shows the area where the glazed-items-waiting-to-be-fired and the already-glazed-items are placed.
At the end, I took a few more pictures of the glazing, shelving, and firing areas. These areas are in one long rectangular room. As soon as you walk into the room, the shelves for all of the pottery are right in front of you (third picture). The shelves to the left are for the glazed items and the shelves to the right are for the greenware and bisque fired items. To the far left, is the kiln room. The kiln is HUGE (first picture)! Furthest right is where all the glazing takes place (last picture).
That was an exhausting post, so I will be done for now!
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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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