Experimentation

1. Experimentation Discovering the Ceramic Surface

2. Decoration • Designed to adorn, beautify, embellish or enrich in an aesthetically pleasing and considered way. • Simple as a line or impression or as complex as a patterned grid of tightly defined strokes.

3. Wheel Assignments • Plate • Bowl • Lidded Container By Semester’s End!

4. Each project will have one (or more) refined surface treatment beyond what was finished on the wheel. • Many techniques to choose from • Research and find your own

5. Design first in 2 dimensions! • Ideas should begin in sketches • Think line and shape

6. Sign & Symbol • Beginnings of human graphic communication • Early man

7. Pattern & Space • Looking at the environment

8. Marking Divisions • Pencil burns off- use it! • Tools for helping make divisions Your process of making marks and how you place them on your form can make or break your piece.

9. Marks of Slash, Scratch Carve & Cut • Variety of tools (classroom and found objects) • Artistic individuality Frank Boyden

10. Scratch/Sgraffito

11. Faceting

12. Fluting

13. Joseph Meyer

14. Ron Meyers

15. Jim Connell

16. Celia Rice-Jones

20. Marks of Addition & Removal • Low-relief decoration • Glazes or stains emphasize edge and depth

23. Donna Ball

24. Washed Wax • Paint wax on dry greenware • Damp sponge to remove background • Leaves brushwork pattern raised

25. Marks of Impression • Texture Tiles • Stamps • Sticks and Wood • Bones • Fossils, seashells, nutshells • Fibers • Stone • Paddles • Plastic Mesh • Sodium Silicate

31. Marks of Liquid Clays • Trailing • Combing • Marbling • Feathering • Dotting • Slips and Engobes

32. Engobes • Colored slip • Applied only to leatherhard ware. • Often used with scrafito • Painterly effects, blending possible

33. Slip Trailing Feathering

35. Marks of the Brush • Different types of brushes for different marks • Requires practice • Should look loose and easy • Cotton swabs for dots or lines with controlled thickness • May be done on the wheel with practice

37. Marks of Resistance • Wax resist • Wax crayons and candles • Paper cut-outs (stencils) • Masking tape (only on bone dry or bisque ware)

38. Wax resist and underglaze/ slip inlay • Step 1: Paint slip on leather hard piece. • Step 2: After the slip dries (no longer tacky), paint wax over entire surface.

39. Step 3: Using a small loop tool, carve in your lines.

40. Step 4: Paint underglaze into the carved lines.

41. Step 5: Wipe away any excess underglaze.This is a great way to get make a nice clean, sharp line in the leather hard stage.

42. Marks of the Glaze & Application • Stippling: edge or tip of a brush or sponge (creates a broken texture) • Spattering: toothbrush or similar stiff-bristled brush, knife blade pulled across the bristles • Sponging: to create a repeated pattern or texture • Trailing: similar to slip trailing with squeeze-bottle (glaze should be thick!) • Multiple glaze application: 2+ glazes, thin application

44. This is merely the starting point.Experiment!