Clay Molding and Carving Skills for Unique Place Settings
Enhance your clay molding, shaping, and carving skills with this unit focusing on creating a cohesive and textured place setting. Learn to design and make plates, mugs, and bowls with creative elements like feet. Explore techniques such as slab-building, coil, and pinch to craft your pieces, all while emphasizing creativity, originality, and cohesiveness. Get inspired by the pottery tutorial provided to make a sophisticated dinnerware set. Level up your skills from Clay 1 and ensure your designs are approved before working on clay.
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Lesson Goals Place Setting Unit To work on clay molding, shaping, smoothing and carving skills with the tools used in the classroom. To create a unique, complex, and cohesive place setting, that emphasizes texture, color, form, and unity.
What are the requirements? Design and Make 1. One plate or platter with a foot 2. One mug with a handle that is NOT just a cylinder 3. One bowl with a foot
You will be graded on... Creativity- Make something fresh and new Originality- Don t copy an idea from the internet Cohesiveness- Your dining set belongs together. Each element connects in come way to the the other. Plus...You included feet on your plate and bowl, and your mug is not just a cylinder . And...Your skills are on display! Improve on what you did in Clay 1.
What are some ways you can build your pieces? Slab or press into a mold Coil Pinch
Pottery Tutorial : How to Make a Dinnerware Set with Texture In this tutorial we demonstrate how easy it is to make a sophisticated dinnerware set with clay slabs and a few simple tools. For more information, please visit www.grpotteryforms.com
Creating a coil foot for bowl and plate Keep it even and Score and slip both sides!
Create even feet so your piece doesnt wobble, remember to score and slip
All designs must be approved / stamped before you get out any clay
Resources Texts available in room: 500 Cups, by Lark 500 Plates, by Lark 500 Bowls, by Suzanne Tourtillot
Lesson Goals Place Setting Unit To work on clay molding, shaping, smoothing and carving skills with the tools used in the classroom. To create a unique, complex, and cohesive place setting, that emphasizes texture, color, form, and unity.
