Feb 29th

First priority is your slab project which is due, finished and glazed by March 7th. For those who are finished or waiting for firings, you may begin the next project.

Feb 26th

How did the Maori's tiki change to the tiki today, lets find out!

Feb 24th

We will be continuing learning about Polynesian art and the history of the tiki. Keep in mind projects are DUE Monday March 7th, that is finished and glazed.

Feb 22nd

Some students are finished or waiting for their slab project to be fired. Lets begin learning about Polynesian art and culture, in which students who are finished may begin on.

Feb 19th

Paper stencils are a piece of cake! Lets apply colored slip!

Feb 17th

Lets take a look at stencils and sticker-ing for surface manipulation, I will then demo "burnishing" our final projects.

Feb 12th

Lets take a look at a few artists who use the surface decorations that we talked about last class period! Afterwards I will demo the next few steps to my project.

Feb 10th

Lets take a look at an artist who uses slab's, then talk about suraface decorations. I will demo sgraffito with glaze and underglaze in class.

Feb 8th

Today, over the document camera I will demonstrate using a template to cut pieces out, as well as a re-cap on slipping scoring and smudging our pieces together.

Feb 5th

Great start with those sketches! Lets begin/finish our template construction and recap how to put slabbed leatherhard pieces together!

Great templates so far!