OBJECTIVES:

  • Students learn to generate, sort, and develop ideas for content in their artwork. 
  • Students learn to assemble and finish a lidded box-like form from slabs of clay half way between soft and leatherhard. 
  • Build a frame of reference for the work of art by accomplished artists who have made similar work.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Use slab or coil method to construct
  • Must have a hidden lid
  • Your lid must have a lip
  • Must have a foot
  • Height Requirement: 5"-6"
  • Must have a theme or texture or sgraffito
  • You can use red terracotta clay or white earthenware clay
  • Slabs should not be thinner than 1/4"
  • Create a cardboard template for slabs

WHAT TO DO:

  • Roll out your slab to 1/4″ – 3/8″ thick.
  • Lay templates on top of the clay and use a needle tool to cut them out. 
  • Stack them with a piece of plastic wrap or paper between them. Put the template on top so you know which pieces is what!
  • Allow to harden to leather-hard.
  • Use the 4 S’s of Joining Clay to attach the pieces together
  • Add coils in the corners to strengthen the joints.
  • Smooth all the sides.
  • Use additive and subtractive techniques to add your theme elements to the 4 sides of your box.
  • LID: construct the lid by adding a coil on the bottom of the lid that fits inside the walls of the box. Add theme elements to the lid. You must add a handle that goes with your theme.
  • FEET: Don't forget to add feet to your box. 
  • Plan your color.... will you use underglazes? Glazes? 

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