ART 2752
Chris Pickett
Project 1 – Bowls
Spring 2010
This project introduces throwing skills. You will choose a specific use and a particular attitude, or concept for your bowls. Your design decisions about proportion, edge, beginning, termination, scale, and surface will be expressive elements in making personalized bowls that are effective for your chosen function. For example, bowls for a hot comfort food, like chili, are intended to be comfortable and casual. They may look different than bowls that are meant to showcase expensive, highly visual finger foods like chocolate truffles.
Reading: Page 65 – 73: Open Forms
Research: You should browse the aisle just behind the stairs on the second floor where the NK3. Books are located (this aisle is mostly all ceramics). In addition, if you go to the library’s homepage on the Internet, click Art & Architecture homepage, then click the Camio database and do a ceramic bowls search. You will recover images of historical bowls. Keep in mind during your searches that our bowls will be low-fire, slip-decorated works with red clay. Photocopy or print out at least three examples of bowls that you would like to study further. Tape, staple, or glue the copies into your sketchbooks along with the information of where they came from.
Do at least eight sketches by January 19th in your sketchbook of potential bowl ideas. We will look at and discuss your sketches in class. You may do multiple sketches on one page, but give yourself enough room to work. Applying color to your sketches and considering surface treatment is strongly encouraged.
Consider the following and note your answers in your sketchbook.
1. What kind of attitude or feeling do you want your bowls to have? How will you use the foot, rim, and curve to establish your idea? For example, a bowl that expresses hearty, comforting sentiments would look different from one that conveys a pristine elegance.
2. What is the function of your bowl, and what considerations are necessary in the form for this? E.g. size, shape of curve (offering, enclosing/containing), etc.? Mixing bowls meant to contain liquid contents during stirring have a different shape than serving bowls that are meant to invite the hand to select something from the bowl.
Your assignment: Make 10 bowls. You may make all 10 about the same function and attitude, or choose two functions and attitudes. The bowls are not meant to be identical, but rather are research about the ideas you choose. Bowls must be at least fist-sized.
The bowls must be slip decorated. Use at least three different slip techniques for leather-hard application: brushing, stencil, mishima, sgraffito, marbling, or trailing. We will talk about these techniques in class January 14.
Technical goals:
--Throwing: Smooth continuous curves from the center to
the rim with even wall thickness.
--Trimming: Effective foot trimming that results in even
walls.
--Slip decoration: Develop techniques of slip decoration that
include brushing, mishima, trailing, sgraffito,
--Glazing: Even glaze application of appropriate thickness
and clean line from waxing of the foot.
Aesthetic goal: The goal is to make appropriate, expressive choices to promote your personal ideas. Your ideas can be expressed through scale, edge quality, form, foot treatment, proportion of bowl to foot, surface, and color.
Calendar:
Jan 12: Introduction of Project 1 Examples of Bowls, Throwing demo.
Jan 14: Trimming demo and Slip/ surface decorating demo. Practice day w/ one-on-one help
Jan 19: Sketchbooks and research due, Practice day w/ one on one help.
Chris Pickett
Project 1 – Bowls
Spring 2010
This project introduces throwing skills. You will choose a specific use and a particular attitude, or concept for your bowls. Your design decisions about proportion, edge, beginning, termination, scale, and surface will be expressive elements in making personalized bowls that are effective for your chosen function. For example, bowls for a hot comfort food, like chili, are intended to be comfortable and casual. They may look different than bowls that are meant to showcase expensive, highly visual finger foods like chocolate truffles.
Reading: Page 65 – 73: Open Forms
Research: You should browse the aisle just behind the stairs on the second floor where the NK3. Books are located (this aisle is mostly all ceramics). In addition, if you go to the library’s homepage on the Internet, click Art & Architecture homepage, then click the Camio database and do a ceramic bowls search. You will recover images of historical bowls. Keep in mind during your searches that our bowls will be low-fire, slip-decorated works with red clay. Photocopy or print out at least three examples of bowls that you would like to study further. Tape, staple, or glue the copies into your sketchbooks along with the information of where they came from.
Do at least eight sketches by January 19th in your sketchbook of potential bowl ideas. We will look at and discuss your sketches in class. You may do multiple sketches on one page, but give yourself enough room to work. Applying color to your sketches and considering surface treatment is strongly encouraged.
Consider the following and note your answers in your sketchbook.
1. What kind of attitude or feeling do you want your bowls to have? How will you use the foot, rim, and curve to establish your idea? For example, a bowl that expresses hearty, comforting sentiments would look different from one that conveys a pristine elegance.
2. What is the function of your bowl, and what considerations are necessary in the form for this? E.g. size, shape of curve (offering, enclosing/containing), etc.? Mixing bowls meant to contain liquid contents during stirring have a different shape than serving bowls that are meant to invite the hand to select something from the bowl.
Your assignment: Make 10 bowls. You may make all 10 about the same function and attitude, or choose two functions and attitudes. The bowls are not meant to be identical, but rather are research about the ideas you choose. Bowls must be at least fist-sized.
The bowls must be slip decorated. Use at least three different slip techniques for leather-hard application: brushing, stencil, mishima, sgraffito, marbling, or trailing. We will talk about these techniques in class January 14.
Technical goals:
--Throwing: Smooth continuous curves from the center to
the rim with even wall thickness.
--Trimming: Effective foot trimming that results in even
walls.
--Slip decoration: Develop techniques of slip decoration that
include brushing, mishima, trailing, sgraffito,
--Glazing: Even glaze application of appropriate thickness
and clean line from waxing of the foot.
Aesthetic goal: The goal is to make appropriate, expressive choices to promote your personal ideas. Your ideas can be expressed through scale, edge quality, form, foot treatment, proportion of bowl to foot, surface, and color.
Calendar:
Jan 12: Introduction of Project 1 Examples of Bowls, Throwing demo.
Jan 14: Trimming demo and Slip/ surface decorating demo. Practice day w/ one-on-one help
Jan 19: Sketchbooks and research due, Practice day w/ one on one help.
Jan 21: Workday (valuable time to practice, produce and ask questions).
Jan 26: Workday (valuable time to practice, produce and ask questions) Bowls on shelf in kiln room on Friday Jan 30.
Jan 28: Kathryn Finnerty Workshop and workday if time allows.
Jan 26: Workday (valuable time to practice, produce and ask questions) Bowls on shelf in kiln room on Friday Jan 30.
Jan 28: Kathryn Finnerty Workshop and workday if time allows.
Saturday, Jan 30 – Mon Feb 1: Firing Kiln
Feb 2: Kiln Unloading Loading. Glaze Demo. Wax Resist and Masking Techniques. Work Day. Glaze Proj 1
Feb 4: Glazing workday and Kiln Loading Demo. Glazed bowls due on rack or in kiln by the end of class.
AFA Library Resources:
Books to look at:
In Functional Pottery, consider Robin Hopper's information on p. 20, Eating; on p.35, Feet; ch. 10, Pots for Eating From pp. 154-158. Also, read ch. 16 183-184 on Considerations, and pp 133-137 on Base Terminations.
Make It in Clay, John Toki, TT 920.S687 2001Functional Pottery, Robin Hopper, TT 920.H66 2000
The Technique of Throwing, John Colbeck, 738.142 C684p Pottery on the Wheel, Elsbeth Woody, TT 920.W661975 A Potter’s Workbook, Clary Illian, NK 4225.I45 1999
Middle Eastern bowlVideos: May be viewed in the library or checked out by students for 3-day loan:
Craft of the Potter, Throwing. Michael Casson. #2 of the series TT920 .C731 1983 #2
Making Pots on the Wheel: Video 2: Throwing and Tooling Bowls and Plates by Tom Rossi, in cooperation
with Jerry Horning and Tom Langdon. TT920 .R671 1993 video 2
Beginning to Throw on the Potters’ Wheel, Robin Hopper. TT920 .H661 1995
Web sites:
Try your own gallery search for contemporary pottery. Akar Design: www.akardesign.com
Evaluation: Your grade will be determined using the following categories:
Research 10 %
Required number of sketches
Clear statement of function and content in the bowls
Development of design decisions that support function and concept
Technical concerns 45%
Even wall thickness
Curve is smooth and continuous
Well-trimmed foot
Form supports the function technically
Good craftsmanship in glazing
Required slip techniques evident in bowls
Aesthetic concerns 45%
Design decisions in form support concept (bowl shape, choice of footing, edge, proportion, et al.)
Surface (slip and glaze) supports concept
Feb 2: Kiln Unloading Loading. Glaze Demo. Wax Resist and Masking Techniques. Work Day. Glaze Proj 1
Feb 4: Glazing workday and Kiln Loading Demo. Glazed bowls due on rack or in kiln by the end of class.
AFA Library Resources:
Books to look at:
In Functional Pottery, consider Robin Hopper's information on p. 20, Eating; on p.35, Feet; ch. 10, Pots for Eating From pp. 154-158. Also, read ch. 16 183-184 on Considerations, and pp 133-137 on Base Terminations.
Make It in Clay, John Toki, TT 920.S687 2001Functional Pottery, Robin Hopper, TT 920.H66 2000
The Technique of Throwing, John Colbeck, 738.142 C684p Pottery on the Wheel, Elsbeth Woody, TT 920.W661975 A Potter’s Workbook, Clary Illian, NK 4225.I45 1999
Middle Eastern bowlVideos: May be viewed in the library or checked out by students for 3-day loan:
Craft of the Potter, Throwing. Michael Casson. #2 of the series TT920 .C731 1983 #2
Making Pots on the Wheel: Video 2: Throwing and Tooling Bowls and Plates by Tom Rossi, in cooperation
with Jerry Horning and Tom Langdon. TT920 .R671 1993 video 2
Beginning to Throw on the Potters’ Wheel, Robin Hopper. TT920 .H661 1995
Web sites:
Try your own gallery search for contemporary pottery. Akar Design: www.akardesign.com
Evaluation: Your grade will be determined using the following categories:
Research 10 %
Required number of sketches
Clear statement of function and content in the bowls
Development of design decisions that support function and concept
Technical concerns 45%
Even wall thickness
Curve is smooth and continuous
Well-trimmed foot
Form supports the function technically
Good craftsmanship in glazing
Required slip techniques evident in bowls
Aesthetic concerns 45%
Design decisions in form support concept (bowl shape, choice of footing, edge, proportion, et al.)
Surface (slip and glaze) supports concept
Are we required to bring in anything besides the bowls? Like a typed statement or something?
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