Prelude to Coil Pots

COIL TRIVETS

CERAMICS I

clay, glazes, oxides, melted glass shards

Coil making is a fairly difficult technique to master,

 so rather then jumping right into Coil Pots, 

I have the kids make Coil Trivets first.

They use a much smaller coil length which is easier to master.

This is an inlay technique as well.

The students pierce or cut out a window,

then replace with other things.

Above we have the work of junior Klyne Madayag

 who is establishing quite a name for herself because of her beautiful craftsmanship.

The students are required to replace their window with coils, 

small slab pieces, 

and small balls of clay.

I also require a certain amount of surface design,

thus the stamped edges on both pieces above.

Into the small slab piece they are to carve a simple shape for later melting glass shards into.

I also require a certain amount of surface design,

thus the stamped edges on both pieces above.

The two beauties above were created by junior Christine Kim.

I usually always give my students choices in how they want to glaze their work.

Many of the kids in this assignment stained their pieces with oxides first,

then some also put glaze over top the stain like senior Nikita Govind above.

She used her skull stamp to melt her glass shards into.

Below junior Christina Hur stained her entire piece with cobalt carbonate

 then dipped it into our transparent glaze.

She topped that off with blue glass shards for a lovely monochromatic color scheme.