Tell Your Story/ Fables and Tales Sculpture Final Lesson /Assessment

Tell Your Story/ Fables and Tales Sculpture Final Lesson /Assessment

   

    

Makely's Pottery one Final Project

Lead in: Your life is composed of many stories. How you remember and tell those stories helps to define who you are. This assignment relates to all your journal assignments, or you can depict a scene from a Grimm’s fairy tale or Aesop’s Fable.

Task: You will be creating a sculptural tunnel book with according sides and no spine that “Tells your story” or depicts a scene from a fairy tale. You will be asked to bring some of your own materials to add, such as personal photo(s), fabrics, etc. -Whatever tells your story or adds to your fable! As part of the final critique, you will use the various aspects of the sculpture to tell your story.

Procedure: Think about your life and the many stories of which it is composed. Choose one or more stories to tell about your life. You will be required to incorporate certain aspects in your sculpture. Reflect back on your sketchbook questions that you answered throughout the semester. Your research will be attached to worksheet #1.

Tell your story book sculpture must incorporate the following:

1. Your first and last name or nickname stylized.
2. A repetitive pattern of symbols representing parts of your story or you.
3. A self-portrait – face, partial face, full body( use photos, draw, caricature or realistic)
4. Text/writing – share story from your life
5. Text writing – share a story about your passion(s) ( sports, art, music, poetry, nature, literature, etc.)
6. Share a secret or thought on a clear plastic thought bubble
7. Wire attachments – create  additions that represent some aspect of your life story

Artistic Expectations:

1. A clear and creative visual communication of your story.
2. Well crafted  - your technical use of materials
3. Strong use of art elements- line, shape , color, space, texture
4. Use of  Principles of design to compose your sculpture – Balance, Unity, Repetition, Proportion, Movement and Emphasis
5. Must be able to stand on its own as a 3-D Sculpture in the round
6. Incorporation of writing/text
7. 2 sketches will be turned in for 100 points. Each sketch must incorporate all the requirements to get full credit for this sketchbook grade. You will be presenting your story to your peers.

Tell Your Story Sculpture Rubric         Name ____________________ Pd:_______       

15 points - Reflect on the following: 

1. Do you make your stories or do your stories make you? Explain your answer.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Explain the story or stories your sculpture tells about you.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Describe the meaning of your pattern or symbols.

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Evaluation: Evaluate your work for the following criteria using the scale provided:

Weak/Poor =12, 13                 Average = 14,15                     Good = 18,19              Strong = 20

____Communication               A clear and creative visual communication of your story

____ Well crafted                   Your technical use of materials

____ Art Elements                  Strong use of art elements- line, shape, color, space, texture

____ Principles of Design       Use of Principles of design to compose your sculpture – Balance, Unity, Repetition, Proportion, Movement and Emphasis

____Freestanding                   Must be able to stand on its own as a 3-D Sculpture in the round

____Writing                            Incorporation of writing/text

____stylized name                  creative style

____Repetitive pattern           pattern of symbols representing parts of your story or you

____Self Portrait                     Use of photos or drawings                 

____Extras                              Use of thought bubble and wire attachment

____ Total points earned/ 200 points possible

+          ____ 15 reflections points

            ____20 presentation points

__________ Total points possible 235

Throwing cereal Bowls

Project:  Cereal Bowl

Objectives:

Students will create cereal bowls on the potter’s wheel  and learn basic centering techniques.

Students will learn how to use the potter’s wheel to create wheel thrown ceramic works of art.

Students will add to their ceramic vocabulary and understanding.

Students will apply the elements and principles of art in creating their own works of art.

Students will learn to trim and sign each of their works of art.

Materials:

Clay                                                     Potter’s Wheel                                     Handouts

Plastic Bat                                           Clay Tools                                           Plastic Bag

Sketchbooks                                       

Art Production Steps:

1. Watch the demo and understand how to center the clay on the wheel and create a cereal bowl.
2. Get required tools and materials before you begin and place them at your assigned wheel.
3. Center your ball of clay on the plastic bat.
4. Create a hole in the center of your clay
5. Check to see if the bottom is the correct thickness, about ¼ inch.
6. Open the hole to create the bottom of your bowl.
7. Slowly pull the clay to the desired height.  Your finished bowl must be greater than or equal to 3 inches.
8. Trim top to be even using a needle tool.
9. Shape your bowl as desired
10. Cut a foot.
11. Place plastic bat on storage shelf to allow your work to dry off the bat.
12. Clean up as instructed making sure all tools are clean and your working area is clean, including the wheel and area around it.
13. Don’t forget to put your name on the bottom of your work after you have trimmed it.

Art Criticism:  We will have a short class critique on the due date for this project.

Evaluation:  See Rubric 16 points

Vocabulary Words:

Centering                                           needle tool                                            loop tool

Bat                                                      Rib                                                      Trimming

Foot                                                    wire tools                                             Throwing

3 Idea Sketches for my Cereal Bowls

Sketchbook Reflection
60 pts. possible
Throwing on the Wheel

Reflect about the difficulties you experienced the first time working on the wheel.

Decorating Techniques on the various states of clay

Decorating Techniques on the various states of clay

Soft

Paddling – stick used to smooth the wall and strengthen the joins, and at the same time the surface is textured.

Inscribing (roulettes, combing, stamping) – scratching designs into the clay

Agate – mixing two different colors of clay

                               

Leather-hard

Fluting – making grooves or furrows on the surfaces of thrown pieces

Faceting – cut facets evenly into thrown pieces

Openwork – the walls of a piece are perforated or fretted

Carving – cutting below the surface of a piece

Cloisonné – fine strips of clay are attached to the surface used only on flat surfaces, after bisque-firing glazes are applied to the spaces

Relief – adding pieces of clay to the surface

Combing – a tube or a quill of a feather is used to mix different-colored engobes either in parallel or at a different angle

Marbling – different color engobes are applied to the surface and the piece is moved around to mix engobes

Burnishing - to polish clay while it is in the greenware stage by rubbing it with a smooth tool

Encrusting – a colored clay is embedded into a different color

Dry

Oxides – painted onto the surface of a piece

Sgraffito – scratching designs through colored slip to allow the body color to show through

Bisque

Underglaze – glaze used to add color to a piece with a matt finish unless covered with clear glaze, can come in the form of pencils or watercolors too

Wax Resist – wax can be used as a resist to draw motifs that you want to keep free of glaze

Resists –anything that is used to keep areas free of glaze, examples: paper, tape, etc.

Superimposing Glazes – different glazes are applied over the top of each other is some manner, results are difficult to predict

Tips and Suggestions

Tips and Suggestions

Let your projects dry out slowly.  Keep all clay projects covered with a plastic bag.  This helps prevent stress cracks, and breakage.

Use a spray bottle to keep projects moist until they are ready to dry.  Instead of leaving project out to dry, try placing them in a bag that is open on one end to let some moisture out but not all and dry more slowly.

Always score with deep groves over the entire surface on both pieces that you want to join and use lots of slip that is very runny.  Use a sponge to clean up excess slip after you have attached your two surfaces.

Never try to score and slip bone dry surfaces.  The clay should be moist and at the same moisture level so that they join and dry at the same rate.  Clay shrinks as it dries so it will pull away from the attached surface if they are different moisture levels or drying at different rates.

Remove any excess water from the bottom of any projects that are made on the wheel.  Leaving a puddle in the bottom prevents the piece to dry out at an even rate, increasing the chance for cracks to form in the bottom.

To reduce thickness if the clay is no longer pulling up, use a rib to scrap off excess clay.  A ribbon tool can also be used to carve away the extra thickness of the clay after the piece has become leather hard.  Waiting until the leather hard state (with the piece still on the bat) allows the shavings to drop off the work rather than stick to the piece and get in the way.

Keep finger nails cut short.  Long nails easily get in the way and ruin projects, especially when working on the wheel.

To seal a crack, wet your finger and rub out the crack until the surface is dry again.  This takes patience.

Clean up is easiest with a wet sponge or wet towel.  It goes much faster and picks up the clay so that it does not end up on the floor.  Be sure to rinse out the sponge or towel for the next person.

Clean tools are nice to use so make sure to clean-up after yourself each day.

Use a damp sponge to apply ink into the cracks of the satin white glaze.  Wipe clean.

Move projects to the greenware shelf to be fired only when they have completely dried out, graded and are ready to go in the kiln.  This opens space on the cart and lowers the possibly for your project to be broken by others.

Check the bisque ware shelf each day for your projects.  If you find yours move it to your self to glaze at a later time.  This will prevent projects from going missing or accidentally being claimed by the wrong person.

Check the glaze shelf each day for your completed projects.  This will help ensure you get your own and it is not claimed by someone else accidentally.

Always double check that your name is on your project.  This will help prevent others from claiming yours on accident.

60 pts sketchbook reflection

Reflect on the tips you just read.  (What tips were useful to you?  Do you have any other tips that were not on this list?)