Mrs. Edwards art class
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      • Gridding farm animals
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      • Rodeo
      • foreshortening
      • Graphic Novel illustration
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      • Distortion art glitch
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      • Replicated eyes
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      • Deconstruction project
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      • Name design drawing
      • 3 pinch pots
      • Big coil pots sgraffito
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Start with a ball of clay about the size of a fist.

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The first step to making your pinch pot is to start the opening. Cradle
the ball of clay in one hand and gently press the end of your thumb into the clay.
A good method is to press down a bit with your thumb and then give the clay a bit of a turn — press down some more and then give it another little turn. This helps to keep the hole you are making
centered and the walls an even thickness.
When you sense that you are getting close to the other side of the clay ball, stop before you go through.

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Gently press the clay from the inside with your thumb against your fingers on the outside. Each time you press a bit with your thumb, give the clay a bit of a turn before you press again.

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It doesn't matter if you turn the pot clockwise or counterclockwise, just work in a way that seems natural to you.

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​If you curve your fingers slightly, you can control the shape a bit better and make a more rounded form.
If your fingers are held flat against the outside, the pot rim will flare out more to make an open bowl shape.
Experiment to see what kinds of forms you can make. Continue the pinching and turning method until the walls of the pot are thinned out to a thickness that seems about right to you.

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The main thing to remember while working is to try for an even wall thickness as you pinch your way around the bowl.
Use slightly damp sponge to smooth the sides and the top edge of the bowl.

You will need to make two pinch pots the same size. 
Follow the directions to score and slip them together. 


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  • Home
  • Elements and principles of design
    • The elements of design >
      • Line
      • Shape & Form
      • Value
      • Color
      • Space
      • Texture
    • Principles of design >
      • Contrast
      • Balance
      • Proportion
      • Repetition
      • Emphasis
      • Unity
  • composition how to
  • Art 1
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Creating a sketchbook
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Day of the dead sugar skull >
        • intro to ceramics: Clay termanology
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Winter/Holiday card
      • Rodeo (optional)
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Self portrait with a twist >
        • Drawing the face and gridding
      • Printmaking
      • Oil pastel flowers >
        • Oil pastel Rubric
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Perspective assignment >
        • Perspective worksheet
      • Hands and collage
      • Scratchboard
      • Zentngle boxes
  • Painting
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Color Wheel
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor mandala
      • Watercolor candy
      • Gridding farm animals >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Portrait grid in opposite colors >
        • Acrylic Lesson 6 mini assignments
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor project
      • Anatomy, mixed media multi medium
      • Rodeo
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Painting techniques
      • Oil painting a pear >
        • Oil Painting color theory
      • Oil painting reflective surfaces
      • Draped fabric
      • Naturally occuring patterns
      • Dynamic Hands
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Children's' book illustrations
      • Independent study #1
      • Independent study
    • Syllabus
  • Drawing II, III, IV
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • Color Wheel
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Gridding farm animals
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Rodeo
      • foreshortening
      • Graphic Novel illustration
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Distortion art glitch
      • Printmaking
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Replicated eyes
      • Draped fabric
      • Deconstruction project
  • Sculpture
    • How to set up your sketchbook >
      • Color Wheel
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • 3 pinch pots
      • Big coil pots sgraffito
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Cardboard city
      • Paper Mache Animal/creature wall mount
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • whimsical storefront dioramas
      • Big heads
      • Plaster forms
      • Creature heads
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Deconstruction project
      • Ceramic shoes
      • Soft sculpture
    • Syllabus
  • AP
    • Writing an artist statement
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • AP Art and Design Selected Works Rubric Terminology
    • 2 D drawing and Design
    • Color Wheel
    • Calendar assignments >
      • Rodeo
    • 3D AP >
      • Contemporary museum of craft
      • 3 D criteria
      • 3D AP Calendar
    • How to page >
      • Blending Color Pencil
  • VASE artwork
    • 2D
    • 3D
  • About me