Planter

Welcome Back! 
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It is now December and in the spirit of winter we are going to be making winter/ holiday inspired planters. 

Goal- Use your slab building techniques to create a themed planter or container. I would like these to be LARGE! They must be hollow and be able to contain something. You must also build up on your surface to create texture and design.

Choice Project

It is now your turn to create anythingg you would like using the building techniques we have learned this far. You CANNOT repeat a project. For example you cannot make another "zombie" mask if that is what you created for the mask assignment. The projects cannot be smaller then your hand. 
 Have fun and be creative!! 

Positive / Negative

You are going to be creating an abstract outside of the box positive and negative space sculpture

Positive space: an area occupied by something/ filled in 
Negative space: the absence of something/ in this circumstance the absence of clay.

Here are some examples of positive and negative sculptures 

GOALS:
*Create an abstract/ unique positive and negative sculpture ___5 pts
* Make sure there are equal parts positive and negative space_____5 pts
* SMOOTH, SMOOTH, SMOOTH_____5 pts
* you will select one color to glaze your project ( monochromatic) this means you WILL have very even glaze coats ensuring your whole ceramic piece is properly colored and covered   _____5 pts

mask glazing

I will be looking for COLOR and DETAIL!!

MASKS

You will all be crating 3D masks out of clay. Although this is a Halloween inspired project you do not have to create something scary. All that I ask is that you create something stereotypical, that we all recognize.  So for example if you want to create Dracula what comes to mind are the following:
Fangs, white skin, widows peak, boney, dark circles around the eyes, maybe some blood, pointed nose and ears etc. 
Here are some examples of clay masks 
 
Requirements for this project are as follows:
1. Have one very detailed sketch or your stereotype
2. Use plastic mold with a bag over it as your base for building
3. "build up " your features 
4. carve away recessed areas
5. be very selective when glazing, make your colors accurate
6. use lots and lots of color!!!!