Skip to main content

My Clay Day

My New Year's resolution was to make time for my art. So.....Needing to make clay pieces for another Raku fire day at Eric Orr's studio next month, I made four pieces. I also needed to make items for a PDH next month on glazing. I loved using the Trinity Raku clay. It is so gritty. I made several pieces following the how to on Gary Jackson's  site. I also made leaf bowls using stoneware clay from Trinity Clay in Dallas.










Labels:

Comments

  1. Mrs. CJanuary 27, 2013 at 8:22 AM

    Can't wait to see these glazed! :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 7:06 AM

    I just tried this with 4th and 5th graders in my after school program. Most were very successful. I love the idea. I wanted to test it for use as a 3rd grade slab project for next year but I'm not sure I can pull it off with 3rdgraders. I may stick to wall pockets for them. I do love the vases and will make a few for myself. I'm think an under glazed wiped off to enhance the texture and the just a clear glaze. I'll look forward to seeing your glazed version.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Beth CarterFebruary 8, 2013 at 10:34 PM

      We are having a glaze workshop next week and that is my goal. I also did a two for a Raku fire. I really liked the rubber texture plates for clay. I think it would be hard to do this with a large group of kids.

      Delete

Post a Comment

Thank you for visiting and leaving a comment. Beth

Most popular post

Kandinsky Trees

My first graders really need help with their fine motor skills this year. After completing a very successful Kandinsky Concentric Circle painting lesson noted below, I followed up this past week with a tree inspired lesson. Once again, I found my inspiration from  Jen Draw the Line At  and I used her lesson suggestions for this very successful lesson. My student's used Crayola Metallic crayons instead of the Crayola Construction paper crayons and we used juice lids for some bigger circles in the stamping part of the lesson.  Day 1 On day two constructed the trees and circle leaves. I passed out a 12 x 4 inch piece of black paper and had two different sizes of  square paper for the circles. Yes, this was a challenge since we did not use pencil, but we drew with our scissors. Day 2 I will definite repeat lesson for next year! I will be displaying these soon.  Displayed artwork is posted  HERE ...
6 comments
Read more

Monet's Pond

The Dallas Museum of Art  has a wonderful   Monet Painting  in a beautiful gold frame which inspired me to create this lesson for our Big Art Day which is fast approaching in Texas schools.  For our Big Art day this year I have a Theme....Circle Art!  Themes are the way to go when organizing events.  I love this new lesson that was inspired by one of my favorite artists,  and two favorite bloggers:  Painted Paper and Cassie Stephen's who also use themes.  I ordered the 10 inch cardboard circle rounds for this lesson, the same size  Cassie used in her Dot Day Art .  School Specialty has various sizes. The kids loved painting on this canvas instead of paper.  We read about Monet's garden and look at prints of his masterpieces. I even show them some of my pictures that I took when I   visited his garden in France.   On day one, we painted the pond and the water ...
24 comments
Read more

Clay and Weaving!

I'm brave, I tried a new lesson again.... I can say as we are completing these clay frames that you have to follow some basic rules or you will have broken frames. We have had only 3, but I did make extras.  My 4th graders tackled this lesson with stoneware clay, and finished them with oil pastels, one color of watercolor paint and I painted modge podge on them when dry.   The texture is the key part of the coloring process! I have rollers and rubber texture mats.  At least pencil think and more than 2 fingers in width.  You need some lid tracers and a pin tool. Don't try to cookie cutter it.  I strongly recommend 15 or 19 holes punched with a straw. You must have an odd number!! If they go hole craze, pop out the clay from the straw and plug the holes.  I found the directions for weaving the warp threads here on Cassie Stephen's blog.   I am also doing her plate weaving at the same time with...
28 comments
Read more