Coil Pots, project #2

The ceramics students explored coil as their second form of hand building. The challenge was to create a 10" tall coil pot that incorporated multiple coil designs and negative spaces, using rhythm and repeated patterns to create a pleasing unity to the finished piece.

Glazed pinch pots

Here are the glazed versions of the pinch pots you saw below in their greenware state. There were varied results with these glazes as we are working our way through some older buckets of glaze that might not have been stirred up quite enough before application. Students learned quite a lot about application of glaze, relative "drippiness" and how some glazes flow more evenly than others.

Peeking in the window

Welcome! I hope you will stop by often, or subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates on the glass, ceramics, metals, art history, computer art & design, and web design classes here at ASIJ. A blog is a simple way to get some of the student artwork out there for people to see when they don't always make it into the hallways where the artwork is typically on display. This way we can share a bit about the processes and stages along the way in addition to sharing the finished artwork. It often takes weeks of work to create a final project!

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To start things off, let's take a look at the first intro to ceramics projects: pinch pots with feet and lids. Here is the set of work at the greenware stage, before the first firing. At some point in the next week or two we should have the glazed versions up. Come back to compare the before and after!