For your first assignment, spend the weekend brainstorming to come up with a couple ideas of objects to make utilizing at least three of the methods discussed in class today. Your final piece should be between 5″ and 18″ in any dimension.
To recap, those methods are:
Throw and Join – two or more thrown forms joined together
2-Piece Throwing – two thrown things joined together, then thrown more to make a taller/different thing
Thrown Foot -or other throwing onto leatherhard clay
Facet – slicing pieces off of a thickly thrown piece
Carve – carving into a thickly thrown piece
Assembled Parts – multiple thrown parts assembled to create a larger thing, slightly different than Throw and Join
Shaping On/Off the Wheel – throwing without a bottom, making round things NOT round
X-Treme Throwing! – using architecture to make extreme cantilevered or odd shapes
So for Tuesday, here is your homework. Go online and find a couple images of good ideas or creative use of some of the above techniques that you can use for inspiration. Post a link or image here as a comment to this post. Be sure to put URLs in the body of the text in the comments section. Then do some sketching and brainstorming and come up with a couple ideas that we can discuss next week.
Here are a few places to look to get you started:
http://www.ferringallery.com/
http://redstarstudios.wordpress.com/
http://www.garthclark.com/
http://www.mudfire.com/index.htm
http://www.akardesign.com/index.asp
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceramicmuseum/sets/72157603912994995/
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Your goal is to make a set of 4 cups, mugs, or tumblers of the same shape. By trying to replicate four of the same shape you will improve your throwing skill through training your muscle memory to be able to do the same motions repeatedly. This is one of those times where practice makes “perfect”, or at least better.
For Tuesday, please bring in a few sketches of different ideas that we can talk about together. I can help you develop a plan of attack to make the cups you want.
Also, go online and find at least two images of cups that you are interested in and put them in this post under the comments section. This way we can build a visual library of resource images to draw from later, and you can all see what others found interesting. You can either post an address as a link in the comments section, or you can try copying and posting the image itself, depending on the quality of the image.
Here are a few places to look to get you started, but feel free to look all over the place:
http://www.ferringallery.com/
http://redstarstudios.wordpress.com/
http://www.garthclark.com/
http://www.mudfire.com/index.htm
http://www.akardesign.com/index.asp
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceramicmuseum/sets/72157603912994995/
Categorized in Beginning Wheel Throwing
For your technical project for the duration of the semester you will throw 4 identical cylinders. They must be 10 inches tall and 5 inches wide with walls between 1/4 and 1/2 inch thick.
They will be due in their green state for measuring before bisque firing on Thursday April 8th. You may then recycle them or finish them as you wish.
Remember that these cylinders will shrink about 12% from wet to fired size, but not that much during their drying stage. Maybe only about 5% to 8%. Your goal is to get as close as possible to the required size while in their leather hard state.
Categorized in Advanced Wheel Throwing
For your technical project for the duration of the semester you will throw 4 identical cylinders. They must be 6 inches tall and 4 inches wide with walls between 1/4 and 1/2 inch thick.
They will be due in their green state for measuring before bisque firing on Thursday April 1st. You may then recycle them or finish them as you wish.
Remember that these cylinders will shrink about 12% from wet to fired size, but not that much during their drying stage. Maybe only about 5% to 8%. Your goal is to get as close as possible to the required size while in their leather hard state.
Categorized in Beginning Wheel Throwing
Here is the calendar for the semester. There may be some changes as we go on of course, but this is basically how we’re gonna roll.
Beginning Wheel Calendar
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Here is the reading for next week. Please read thoroughly and come prepared for discussion on Tuesday. Be prepared to talk a bit about your dreams and aspirations, too!
Craft Identity in Craft Education
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Alrighty gang… You all did very well today. You made a bunch of work and showed your enthusiasm to get dirty and figure some things out through trial and error.
For Thursday: again I will not be in class until about 3, so I want you to make the tallest thing you can make. It doesn’t matter how many you have to show when I get there, just make it your tallest. You can scrap the pieces you make as you get progressively taller if you want. And remember, this is only a competition with yourself. Try not to judge yourself by comparing to others. You are here to experience personal growth.
See ya Thursday.
Also, if you just added the class, please be sure to bring in your homework.
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Here you will find information for your Advanced Wheel Throwing class during the Spring 2010 semester. Check here for readings, homework assignments, changes in class scheduling and….
The syllabus!… Advanced Wheel Syllabus
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Here you will find information for your Beginning Wheel Throwing class during the Spring 2010 semester. Check here for readings, homework assignments, changes in class scheduling and….
The syllabus!… Beginning wheel syllabus
Categorized in Beginning Wheel Throwing
