Pinch and Coil Skillbuilder: Adding Surface Design to the vases and bowls in Ceramics I

This video is a follow up video to the pinch and coil vase and bowl skillbuilder. In this video, I show several examples of how to add surface design to the vases and bowls through the means of additive and subtractive techniques through slabs and sculptural elements, texturing through carving, slip trailing, and carving and sculptural carving. I made this video for my Ceramics I students at Mason High School. This is the second exercise (non-graded) that the kids do in clay for their semester Ceramics I class. They are adding to their learning and building skills they will use throughout the semester. The learning goals are to add surface design to their forms, reinforce the technique of pinching, while adding coils for additional height. They will learn how to roll round even coils, and score, slip, and blend them to the pinched forms. They will then learn how to shape the forms, and in some cases, paddle the forms by stretching the clay in the direction they want the form to go.
We are using Standard 225 for this exercise. It is la grogged midfire light brown stoneware which will be bisque fired and glazed.
Check out the first video in this series here: • Pinch and Coil Skillbu...
The second video which shows the surface design: • Pinch and Coil Skillbu...
The third video in which I show the kids how to glaze their forms here:
• Glazing the Pinch and ...
For the great tools I used in the video (including the mudtools ribs and needle tools) check out this link to a live Googledoc I continually update with lots of my favorite tools on Amazon using my associate links! docs.google.co...
Here is a playlist of all the videos for the Ceramics II (slightly more advanced) pinch cups: • Pinch Cups with Handles
I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 28 years, the past 20 have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site;
www.etsy.com/s...
I also have wood tools for use in pottery making available in my Etsy shop!

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