Tranquility and creativity collide in pottery workshops that don’t just embrace Scandinese and Japandi elements—they live by them. These spaces, with their

Les jus d'oxydes sont très utilisés par les céramistes, en utilitaire comme en sculpture. Comment les préparer ? Comment les utiliser ?

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This project was inspired by Salvador Dali’s painting The Persistence of Memory. While I worked on these with my kids, we talked about surrealism and imagination. The info sheet on Dali is at the bottom of the post. This project was a little bit harder than the others I’ve posted and younger kids

Joseph Maria Olbrich was chosen by the duke Erns Ludwig Von Essen to design an artist colony after the success of the Secession Exhibition Hall in 1897. The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony was a creative utopian where artists would work and live to create some exhibition every few years. Olbrich designed the main building but also […]

I put together a booklet for the staff of the primary school I work in. They were wanting to learn about clay and some ideas of what they...

This subtractive clay bust is an awesome high school ceramics lesson that helps students explore figurative art, personal expression and a variety of handbuilding techniques.

I'm sure many of you have seen the packing tape sculpture craze all over Pinterest. As soon as I saw it at the beginning of the school year, I knew it was something I had to try with my art club kids. We looked at the artwork of Mark Jenkins. Jenkins is an American artist who creates packing tape installations. The kids loved his work. It was so fun and unexpected. To start, the kids got into groups of 3-4 to help speed up the taping process. The first layer of tape had to be wrapped sticky side out. The following 2-3 layers were wrapped sticky side in. Once they got a large section wrapped (or when they wrapped too tight and the model started losing circulation), they cut the tape off and taped the form back together. Every student in art club will get to be the model for this project. I cannot wait to see these finished! Some important lessons we learned today was to not wrap too tightly and to not wrap too many layers or you run out of tape quickly. Here are some progress photos! And here is a fun little video of a quick way to wrap the torso... Here are more photos from 2/5/13 "The proposal" Gangnam Style The tangled mess of body parts! More photos from 2/6/13

Ren’s studio is located in the former garage, which she converted into an ADU. Photo 8 of 13 in Construction Diary: A Ceramicist Gets Hands On While Renovating Her Midcentury Home. Browse inspirational photos of modern homes.

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Making ceramics takes a lot of skill, but just about anyone can do this bubble paint DIY. One pro shows us how.

Pour elle, art et art de vivre ne faisaient qu’un. Valentine Schlegel, sculptrice et céramiste, qui triomphait dans les années 1960-1970 avec ses cheminées-paysages à la fois chaleureuses et ascétiques, nous a quittés hier. Retour sur un parcours des plus inspirants.

Before reading this post, click here for a complete list of art supplies that you can use to create your own fantastic dessert sculptures (and links for ordering them). Our food art unit started two months ago when my students learned the geometry inherent in drawing cake slices, doughnuts and ice cream. Using my You Tube tutorials they were able to create a backdrop of paintings for a classroom bakery art instillation. Initially my middle school students created flat looking paintings with no sense of three-dimensional form. They were dissatisfied with their attempts and requested instruction to improve their work. At the beginning of the semester I had asked them to write down the things they wanted to learn in art class. Student after student wrote; "I want to learn how to make my drawings look more realistic." Or "I want to learn how to make my drawings look three-dimensional." I decided to give my classes a pretest to see what they already knew about how to draw realistically and realized this was indeed an area of need. Student artwork, prior to instruction As you can see from the photograph above, their paintings initially looked very flat. I asked students to write their names on the back of their paintings instead of the front and deliberately hung up artwork from another age group in each class so that we could focus on improving the work without worrying about anyone feeling singled out. I drew a sample ice cream cone on the board and we compared my work to theirs. I asked the class to identify specific techniques that I used to make my artwork look more three dimensional and wrote down their ideas on the board. Walking around the room and tilting a roll of masking tape, I demonstrated that a circle, seen from the side, will appear elliptical. This is called foreshortening. After listening to my students and determining their academic needs, I developed the You Tube tutorials below: The doughnuts in this backdrop were painted with tempera paint. Shadows were added using a soft pencil and blended with a transparent watercolor wash. Once our drawings and paintings were done, my 5th graders began creating doughnut and ice cream cone sculptures, my 6th graders constructed unique ice cream sundaes and my 7th and 8th graders began to design unique cake slices. Early finishers got to experiment with cookie designs. Once everyone was done with their sculptures we spent an additional two days on cookie making while students worked in small groups to plan their imaginary bakery businesses. Each student was able to work at their own pace and explore the wonderful world of fake food art. For complex multi-step lessons, I often create tutorials on my iPhone and edit them up using the iMovie app. This allows early finishers to work ahead, new student to catch up and anyone with questions to review what they missed. You can see the process videos I created for this project on my You Tube Channel. Once we were done with the project, I created several videos that showed the sculpture process from start to finish. Here is the finished cake slice tutorial: and here is the ice cream and doughnut tutorial: We used this pattern to create our cake armatures from cereal box cardboard After taping together the cardboard, we wrapped the assembled cake slice in tinfoil and covered it with a layer of plaster craft bandages. We then began to add our "icing". After some experimentation, I developed the perfect icing recipe. A friend of mine suggested sculpting with joint compound (Spackle). However we found that it took too long to dry and tended to crack when applied too thickly. Below is my 'perfect cake icing recipe'. We used joint compound, mixed with white latex semi-gloss primer (found in the house paint section of Home Depot or here) and wood glue. Warning: plaster dust is toxic to breathe. We were able to completely avoid all dust by doing a damp sponge clean up after each class, covering our tables with newspaper (and throwing it away at the end of each class) and damp mopping our floor at the end of each day. Handling plaster can also dry the skin. My students used plastic putty knives to spread the frosting (available in packs of five in varying sizes at most dollar stores). I also had disposable gloves available (although most students disliked using them). I never sand plaster with middle school students. THE 'FROSTING' RECIPE DAP joint compound Cover with latex semi-gloss white primer (normal white acrylic paint works well too) Add a few squirts of white wood glue. Stir completely. The mixture above is too thick. Notice it's dry appearance. If the mixture is too thick, add more latex paint. The final mixture should be smooth and creamy like real frosting. When sculpted it should hold it's shape. The above mixture is just right. Notice it's glossy appearance and whipped peaks. We sculpted details using Crayola Model Magic and attached them using low temperature hot glue once the the frosting was dry. Initially, we piped frosting by squeezing it out of the snipped corner of a zip lock bag. Later we discovered that we could create more interesting designs by inserting frosting tips through the hole in the bag first. Here is what our cakes looked like at the end of day 2: The center cake, pictured above, before being painted. Pictured below, after being painted. Grade 8. Cakes by 7th graders on display in our classroom Cake by a 7th grade girl For our culminating activity students will create posters to pitch their imaginary bakery business and new products to investors in a mock episode of 'shark tank'. As students completed their sculptures, I showed the class the video below so they could plan ahead for their sales pitches and posters, while creating some delicious looking cookies: Shark Tank Worksheet Here are some photographs of their finished artwork: Below are the sample tie dye cookies I created in the video: Before my students started on their posters, I showed them a clip from the TV show 'Shark Tank' in which a real baker pitches her business. I skipped through, just showing them the highlights, before asking them to turn to each other and use colorful language to describe and 'sell' their creations: A note about our classroom culture over the course of the semester: Many students got into the habit of watching my You Tube videos at home and arrived at class brimming with ideas. They knew where all the supplies were, so when they entered the classroom they grabbed what they needed and got right to work. I teach in a predominantly Hispanic community where creating delicious and beautiful food is an integral part of the local culture. We discussed how desserts, particularly cakes, are used to mark important occasions, from marriages to birthdays. It was something everyone could relate to. Who doesn't love being given complete freedom to mix paint and concoct unique flavors? About halfway through the drawing and painting process, I did introduce my students to the art of Wayne Thiebaud, mainly because I wanted to expose them to his use of color and light. As I clicked through the slides, I asked the class to discuss with each other as they were painting, the hue of his shadows (often cool colors instead of gray) and how sparingly he used black. I also pointed out his impasto textures and visible brush strokes designed to emphasize form and volume. It was a casual "Here is one artist who paints food, let's look at the techniques he uses." mini lesson. I often deliberately avoid flooding the class in the beginning of a unit with too many 'famous artist" images because I want them to draw on their own experiences first. The technique of briefly showing students something new and suggesting a discussion topic to explore further during independent studio time inspires idea sharing and transforms the student's role from passive learner to artist ("How would you use this technique in your own art?" Instead of "Let's all copy the same way.") When the class finally does see the art others have created, after starting their own projects, they are more likely to view the work with the mindset of harnessing information for their own purposes rather than simply copying. This teaching method trains the mind to view art like artists do. The approach now becomes "Here's a technique I can use to make my OWN message come across more clearly." It gets kids away from the habit of copying and instead inspires the higher order thinking skills of observing, interpreting and creating. While drawing what we see is a necessary first step in the creative process (what artist doesn't have fond childhood memories of copying cartoons?), I wanted my students to train themselves to use observation as a jumping off point to becoming inventors and innovators. My students were fascinated by the idea of creating fake food that was so convincing that it looked 'good enough to eat'. Both the doughnuts and cakes fooled people into thinking they were real. The ice cream sundaes on the other hand had a fun, cartoon quality (they reminded everyone of 'The Flintstones'). We all got hungry looking at them and imagining how the flavors would taste. The kids couldn't wait to bring them home. Special thanks to the following educators: Nicki Newton who first suggested I try sculpting with joint compound Rita Belliveau Martin and Christina Sessums for giving me the idea of using both tempera and acrylic paint to create matte and glossy finishes in different parts of a sculpture. Esther Kamenetsky for doing ice cream sundaes with the kids at Camp Horizons at the table next to me for many years. Eric Gibbons for teaching me to cover cardboard armatures with tin foil to prevent distortion and collapse.

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Michael Chandler is an artist, designer, curator & shop owner. His passion for antiques and the visual history of the Cape influences his many creative endeavours, including his unique hand-painted ceramic work.

Earlier this year, my co-worker Jayne found the idea to make a collaborative school-wide paper mural based on the artwork of Thank YouX. The idea for a student mural originally came from Jenell Novello and you can see the lesson plan write-up on Artsonia. She also so generously provided the lesson plan and templates on Google docs. Thank You X got his name by accident. In 2009 Andy Warhol’s spray painted portrait was spotted on a city street in L.A.. … Read more... →

Ho usato dei piatti di polistirolo, che di solito contengono la frutta e la verdura nei supermercati, per realizzare queste piccole stampe. Il colore utilizzato per la stampa è la tempera acrilica,…

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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #HugtheMess #cbias #CollectiveBias The kids have been begging to do their own Jackson Pollock inspired art project since attending

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Kintsugi (also known as kintsukuroi) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold in order to highlight and show off the imperfections caused by the breakage. Traditionally you would use liquid silver, liquid gold, or lacquer with powdered gold to both join the broken pieces and embelli

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It brings me so much joy knowing that my daughter loves art as much as I do. My five-year old spends the vast majority of her free time drawing, painting or crafting. It is wonderful to be able to share this with her. I introduced her to the great artists early on and her curiosity […]

Learn how to make ceramic doodle houses. This is such a cute craft and she provides great tips and tricks as well as source info and detailed photos to copy

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This glaze recipe has very quickly become one of my favourite bases, and the variation with minor changes in colourants makes it one of the most interesting.

This “Feeling Sculpture” may be the most relaxing clay project you’ll ever do. My students loved it so much, they asked to do it again the next week! Ages 5-85 can all have fun with this project that could double as therapy. Credit for this awesome project goes to my daughter’s high school Ceramics teacher, Mr....