Here's the link to the brushwork video Linda Mentioned in her demo on Tuesday.
Check it out!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWkRJ-u9YEc
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Art 2752
Chris Pickett
Project 3—Containment: Lidded Vessels
Spring 2010
Containment is the theme of this project. You will have an opportunity to build on your technical throwing skills while developing personal concepts. You will use proportion, edge, scale, and surface to make personalized pots about life in the 21st century. You will design lidded pots for a particular use and concept that are descriptive of our time.To begin think about what you would like your pots to contain. You may choose tangible or intangible subject matter. You could design a pot for chocolate truffles or a pot for political power. Your concept should be embodied in your choice of surface, color, and form. Design and make six lidded vessels. The vessels must be different from each other but they may reflect the same concept.
Research:
Look in the library or on the Internet look for lidded vessels from contemporary and historical sources. Look for lidded vessels that reflect their use. Browse the aisle just behind the stairs on the 2nd floor where the NK3 books are located (this aisle is mostly all ceramics). Print out at least 3 examples of lidded vessels that you find relevant to your concept. Tape, staple, or glue the copies into your sketchbooks along with any information you find. Draw 10 sketches in your sketchbook and then choose six of them to create.
You will be sharing your concepts and sketches with your peers in class on Thursday, Feb 25. We will be having an in class discussion and brainstorming session. I expect you to use your sketchbook to work out forms, surfaces, and colors.
Answer the following questions in your sketchbook:
1. What will your lidded vessels contain? What is relevant to a 21st century person? What do you have passion about in your daily life? How is that different today than in the past (i.e., 1920)?
2. What do you want to communicate about your subject to the user?
3. How will your form choices support your idea? E.g. weight, edge, foot, shape, lugs, knob, flange
4. What kind of surface will your pot have? How will you organize the surface treatment and relate it to the form and the concept?
Reading: Chapter 6: The Discipline of Function, Specifically the section on Lids, (pps 84 – 92)
Technical goals:
Make effective functional lids.
Throwing: Consistent wall thickness with vertical form and well formed lips.
Trimming: Well treated feet that support the form of the vessel. No heavy bottoms!
Glazing: Even glaze application of appropriate thickness. Clean line from waxing the foot.
Conceptual goals:
Making appropriate, expressive choice to promote your personal ideas.
How will you express your concept through scale, edge quality, form, foot treatment, and proportion of rim to foot, surface, and color?
Calendar:
February 18: Introduce project 3, Lid Demo, Project 2 and 3 Work Day
February 20 (Sat): Leatherhard/bone dry cups due (Project 2) on class cart
February 23: Project 3 Sketches Due for In Class Discussion, Load Cups (Project 2) into Bisque Kiln, Project 3 Demos and Work Day
February 25: Unload Cups (Project 2), Glaze Project 2, Work on Project 3 (Lidded Vessels)
February 28 (Sat): Glazed Cups (Project 2) Due on Class Cart
March 2: Unload Glazed Cups, Introduce Project 4 (Pouring Vessels)
March 4: Cup Critique (Project 2), Sketches for Proj 4 Due
March 6: Project 3 (6 Lidded Vessels) due on Class Cart to dry.
March 8th-12th: Spring Break ** Have Fun!
March 16th: Work Day Project 3 (Glaze Lidded Vessels) and Project 4 (Make Pouring Vessels)
March 18th: Work Day Project 4
**Sat, Mar 20: Glazed Lidded Vessels (Proj 3) Due on Class Cart by 2pm
March 23rd: Critique Project 3 (Lidded Vessels
AFA Library Resources:
Books on reserve:
Make It In Clay, John Toki, TT 920.S687 2001
Functional Pottery, Robin Hopper, TT 920.H66 2000 106-114 “Lidded Forms;” pgs. 139-144 “Lids and Covers; Chapter 12 “Pots for Storage;” pp. 165-169. Chap. 16 “Considerations”
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
Chris Pickett
Project 3—Containment: Lidded Vessels
Spring 2010
Containment is the theme of this project. You will have an opportunity to build on your technical throwing skills while developing personal concepts. You will use proportion, edge, scale, and surface to make personalized pots about life in the 21st century. You will design lidded pots for a particular use and concept that are descriptive of our time.To begin think about what you would like your pots to contain. You may choose tangible or intangible subject matter. You could design a pot for chocolate truffles or a pot for political power. Your concept should be embodied in your choice of surface, color, and form. Design and make six lidded vessels. The vessels must be different from each other but they may reflect the same concept.
Research:
Look in the library or on the Internet look for lidded vessels from contemporary and historical sources. Look for lidded vessels that reflect their use. Browse the aisle just behind the stairs on the 2nd floor where the NK3 books are located (this aisle is mostly all ceramics). Print out at least 3 examples of lidded vessels that you find relevant to your concept. Tape, staple, or glue the copies into your sketchbooks along with any information you find. Draw 10 sketches in your sketchbook and then choose six of them to create.
You will be sharing your concepts and sketches with your peers in class on Thursday, Feb 25. We will be having an in class discussion and brainstorming session. I expect you to use your sketchbook to work out forms, surfaces, and colors.
Answer the following questions in your sketchbook:
1. What will your lidded vessels contain? What is relevant to a 21st century person? What do you have passion about in your daily life? How is that different today than in the past (i.e., 1920)?
2. What do you want to communicate about your subject to the user?
3. How will your form choices support your idea? E.g. weight, edge, foot, shape, lugs, knob, flange
4. What kind of surface will your pot have? How will you organize the surface treatment and relate it to the form and the concept?
Reading: Chapter 6: The Discipline of Function, Specifically the section on Lids, (pps 84 – 92)
Technical goals:
Make effective functional lids.
Throwing: Consistent wall thickness with vertical form and well formed lips.
Trimming: Well treated feet that support the form of the vessel. No heavy bottoms!
Glazing: Even glaze application of appropriate thickness. Clean line from waxing the foot.
Conceptual goals:
Making appropriate, expressive choice to promote your personal ideas.
How will you express your concept through scale, edge quality, form, foot treatment, and proportion of rim to foot, surface, and color?
Calendar:
February 18: Introduce project 3, Lid Demo, Project 2 and 3 Work Day
February 20 (Sat): Leatherhard/bone dry cups due (Project 2) on class cart
February 23: Project 3 Sketches Due for In Class Discussion, Load Cups (Project 2) into Bisque Kiln, Project 3 Demos and Work Day
February 25: Unload Cups (Project 2), Glaze Project 2, Work on Project 3 (Lidded Vessels)
February 28 (Sat): Glazed Cups (Project 2) Due on Class Cart
March 2: Unload Glazed Cups, Introduce Project 4 (Pouring Vessels)
March 4: Cup Critique (Project 2), Sketches for Proj 4 Due
March 6: Project 3 (6 Lidded Vessels) due on Class Cart to dry.
March 8th-12th: Spring Break ** Have Fun!
March 16th: Work Day Project 3 (Glaze Lidded Vessels) and Project 4 (Make Pouring Vessels)
March 18th: Work Day Project 4
**Sat, Mar 20: Glazed Lidded Vessels (Proj 3) Due on Class Cart by 2pm
March 23rd: Critique Project 3 (Lidded Vessels
AFA Library Resources:
Books on reserve:
Make It In Clay, John Toki, TT 920.S687 2001
Functional Pottery, Robin Hopper, TT 920.H66 2000 106-114 “Lidded Forms;” pgs. 139-144 “Lids and Covers; Chapter 12 “Pots for Storage;” pp. 165-169. Chap. 16 “Considerations”
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
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Project 2– Narrative Cups
Spring 2008
Cups are some of the earliest vessels we encounter in our lives. Their scale is intimate and approachable. Raising a cup to your mouth engages your sense of sight, touch, taste and sometimes smell. The act of drinking makes cups a forum for the maker to communicate with the user. This assignment is about using cups to tell a personally relevant narrative.
Narration is the telling of a story using a sequence of events, images or visual elements. You can use personally nostalgic imagery to show your narrative (i.e. family members in different rooms of a house) or you can depict a historic event (i.e. 9/11). You should use the surface techniques that you learned in project one (Mishima, trailing, sgraffito, and paper stenciling). You may also use glaze application techniques that were shown in the slide presentation.
Read: The Basics of Throwing p 75, 77-83 on mugs and handles and Chapter 4:
Technical Vocabulary and Visual Vocabulary: The Inseparable Language of Design
(pp 48 -61)
Research: Browse the aisle just behind the stairs on the 2nd floor where the NK3. books are located. Look for 500 Cups, Lark Books , The Art of Contemporary American Pottery Kevin Hluch, and others.
Also, if you go to the library homepage on the Internet, then the Art & Architecture homepage, then the Camio database and do a ceramic cup search, you’ll recover some nice images of historical cups. Do not forget the cups in your own daily life, travel mug, paper cup, or juice glass. Photocopy or print out at least 3 examples of cups that you are interested in. Tape, staple, or glue the copies into your sketchbooks along with the information of where they came from the research and sketches are due on Monday February 9 during class. Remember to plan what kind of narrative you will be telling and include sketches. Do at least 8 sketches in your sketchbook of cup ideas. You may do multiple sketches on one page, but give yourself enough room to work. In the sketch book or on a separate paper answer:
1. What do you want to communicate to the user? Is your story sequential?(see jane run to the store, see jane buy a soda, etc.) Or a collage of information? (Jane is an American, who lives in Harlem, who works at the New York times, etc.)
2. How will you form choices that support your idea? E.g. weight, edge, foot, shape, handle.
3. What information do you want to put on the surface of your cup?
4. How will you organize the surface information and relate it to form? If you were telling a fairy tale or a soap opera what kind of form would fit. Think about color, space, form, etc.
5. Do you have a favorite mug or cup why? Describe it?
Your assignment:
You will make 20 cups.
Ten cups are for you to experiment with form, surface, handle placement, and style. I expect them to all be different. From these diverse forms, you will chose one form that you will repeat 10 more times. On these 10 similar cups, you will explore your narrative.
At least 10 of the overall 20 will have pulled or hand-built handles. I am offering you flexibility in this project so take advantage and be creative.
Technical Goals:
• Throwing: I want to see even wall thickness, effective foot trimming, and appropriate weight for vessels which will hold liquids.
• Decoration: Use the techniques of slip decoration that we have discussed, include brushing, mishima, trailing, sgraffito, and stenciling.
• Glazing: I want to see even glaze application of the appropriate thickness and a clean line from waxing of foot.
• Functional goals: Forms should be appropriate to your chosen use.
• Attachments: I will be looking for appropriate decisions in placement, clean attachments to vessel, skill in assembling pieces, and handles relating to the form and function of the cup.
Aesthetic goals: You are to make expressive choices to promote your personal ideas. Your approach to the narrative should be expressed through scale, edge quality, form, foot treatment, proportions, surface, handles, and color.
Calendar:
Feb2: Introduce project 2, , Glaze demo, Glazing and cup making work day
Feb 4: Cup and handle demo, Glazing work day
*Glazed Bowls (Project 1) due on cart
Feb 9th: Unload Glaze Kiln (Project 1), Scrape Shelves. Sketches due Project 2
Feb 11th: Critique Project 1 **Participation Required, Return Sketchbooks
Feb 16: Project 2 Work Day
Feb 18 Introduce project 3, Work Day, Project 2 on Class Cart Friday, Feb 20 by 5pm to dry
Feb 23 Kiln Loading Demo, Load Project 2 Bisque Kiln, Sketches due Project 3
Feb 25 Kiln Unload Demo, Unload Bisque Kiln Glaze project 2 Project 2 Glazed Work due on Class Cart Feb 28 2:00 pm
March Hand in sketches for project 3
March 4 Critique Project 2 Return Project 3 sketches
Evaluation: Your grade will be determined using the following categories:
Research 10 %
Required number of sketches
Clear statement of function and narrative in the cups
Development of design decisions that support function and concept
Technical concerns 45%
Functional concerns
Weight Distribution and Even wall thickness
Well-trimmed foot
Surface Decoration
Glaze application
Handles
Form
Aesthetic concerns 45%
Exploring ideas about function
Clear and consistent expression of formal elements (edge, line, color, scale, proportion) within each cup
Clearly communicated narrative
Spring 2008
Cups are some of the earliest vessels we encounter in our lives. Their scale is intimate and approachable. Raising a cup to your mouth engages your sense of sight, touch, taste and sometimes smell. The act of drinking makes cups a forum for the maker to communicate with the user. This assignment is about using cups to tell a personally relevant narrative.
Narration is the telling of a story using a sequence of events, images or visual elements. You can use personally nostalgic imagery to show your narrative (i.e. family members in different rooms of a house) or you can depict a historic event (i.e. 9/11). You should use the surface techniques that you learned in project one (Mishima, trailing, sgraffito, and paper stenciling). You may also use glaze application techniques that were shown in the slide presentation.
Read: The Basics of Throwing p 75, 77-83 on mugs and handles and Chapter 4:
Technical Vocabulary and Visual Vocabulary: The Inseparable Language of Design
(pp 48 -61)
Research: Browse the aisle just behind the stairs on the 2nd floor where the NK3. books are located. Look for 500 Cups, Lark Books , The Art of Contemporary American Pottery Kevin Hluch, and others.
Also, if you go to the library homepage on the Internet, then the Art & Architecture homepage, then the Camio database and do a ceramic cup search, you’ll recover some nice images of historical cups. Do not forget the cups in your own daily life, travel mug, paper cup, or juice glass. Photocopy or print out at least 3 examples of cups that you are interested in. Tape, staple, or glue the copies into your sketchbooks along with the information of where they came from the research and sketches are due on Monday February 9 during class. Remember to plan what kind of narrative you will be telling and include sketches. Do at least 8 sketches in your sketchbook of cup ideas. You may do multiple sketches on one page, but give yourself enough room to work. In the sketch book or on a separate paper answer:
1. What do you want to communicate to the user? Is your story sequential?(see jane run to the store, see jane buy a soda, etc.) Or a collage of information? (Jane is an American, who lives in Harlem, who works at the New York times, etc.)
2. How will you form choices that support your idea? E.g. weight, edge, foot, shape, handle.
3. What information do you want to put on the surface of your cup?
4. How will you organize the surface information and relate it to form? If you were telling a fairy tale or a soap opera what kind of form would fit. Think about color, space, form, etc.
5. Do you have a favorite mug or cup why? Describe it?
Your assignment:
You will make 20 cups.
Ten cups are for you to experiment with form, surface, handle placement, and style. I expect them to all be different. From these diverse forms, you will chose one form that you will repeat 10 more times. On these 10 similar cups, you will explore your narrative.
At least 10 of the overall 20 will have pulled or hand-built handles. I am offering you flexibility in this project so take advantage and be creative.
Technical Goals:
• Throwing: I want to see even wall thickness, effective foot trimming, and appropriate weight for vessels which will hold liquids.
• Decoration: Use the techniques of slip decoration that we have discussed, include brushing, mishima, trailing, sgraffito, and stenciling.
• Glazing: I want to see even glaze application of the appropriate thickness and a clean line from waxing of foot.
• Functional goals: Forms should be appropriate to your chosen use.
• Attachments: I will be looking for appropriate decisions in placement, clean attachments to vessel, skill in assembling pieces, and handles relating to the form and function of the cup.
Aesthetic goals: You are to make expressive choices to promote your personal ideas. Your approach to the narrative should be expressed through scale, edge quality, form, foot treatment, proportions, surface, handles, and color.
Calendar:
Feb2: Introduce project 2, , Glaze demo, Glazing and cup making work day
Feb 4: Cup and handle demo, Glazing work day
*Glazed Bowls (Project 1) due on cart
Feb 9th: Unload Glaze Kiln (Project 1), Scrape Shelves. Sketches due Project 2
Feb 11th: Critique Project 1 **Participation Required, Return Sketchbooks
Feb 16: Project 2 Work Day
Feb 18 Introduce project 3, Work Day, Project 2 on Class Cart Friday, Feb 20 by 5pm to dry
Feb 23 Kiln Loading Demo, Load Project 2 Bisque Kiln, Sketches due Project 3
Feb 25 Kiln Unload Demo, Unload Bisque Kiln Glaze project 2 Project 2 Glazed Work due on Class Cart Feb 28 2:00 pm
March Hand in sketches for project 3
March 4 Critique Project 2 Return Project 3 sketches
Evaluation: Your grade will be determined using the following categories:
Research 10 %
Required number of sketches
Clear statement of function and narrative in the cups
Development of design decisions that support function and concept
Technical concerns 45%
Functional concerns
Weight Distribution and Even wall thickness
Well-trimmed foot
Surface Decoration
Glaze application
Handles
Form
Aesthetic concerns 45%
Exploring ideas about function
Clear and consistent expression of formal elements (edge, line, color, scale, proportion) within each cup
Clearly communicated narrative
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