11 weeks in… 8 more to go! SO MUCH TO DO!

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Recognizing Strengths, Self-confidence, Self-efficacy

I can use my knowledge of my strengths, weaknesses and future hopes to set a goal and plan to make positive change.

6th Grade: Photos are a part of our DAILY existence. We make more photos in a day that were made… well it seems like ever. Let’s learn to make them STRONGER photos and BETTER images.

Lesson Plans

Somehow, I don’t think Anakin would have even pushed Luke or Leia on a swing. Unless it was made of light sabers!

Photography Assignment HERE

7th Grade: Neurographic Portraits – Let us work with the FACE and the SELF and see what we can come up with!

Lesson Plans

What is happening in this portrait by David Najib Kasir that is the SAME as the ideas that a CONTINUOUS LINE portrait would use?

Neurographic Portrait in Watercolors – HERE

8th Grade Sculpture: Kiln Guardians and WRAPPING UP the Wheel and Totem Inspired Sculptures.

Lesson Plans

Kiln Guardian Lesson – 2 Day Work to allow for finishing up for others AND to protect the firings in the kiln.

Who wouldn’t want a little extra protection in the kiln? Let us try and follow some specific guidelines and make our OWN kiln guardians! Just for fun of course (or is it?). Image from Martie Geiger-Ho PhD’s The Worship of Kiln Gods: From the Temples of China to the Studios of Western Potters – Available on Amazon HERE and a PDF Article HERE and another one HERE.

Your tools and the wheel should look like this when you BEGIN and are DONE

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• Florian Gatsby’s List of videos – 12 Videos – Above
• Earth Nation Ceramics List of Beginner’s Videos HERE – 30 TOTAL but you don’t need them all. – Below

• Worksheet on Totems – HERE
• Techniques
  • Slab
  • Coil
  • Pinch
  • Sculpt
  • Wheel
• Clay Use
  • Covering it during work time to keep it moist
  • Recycling it at the end of the class if it is too dry – MENARDS BUCKET in back or front of studio for recycling
  • Storage in BOXES and BAGS for safekeeping between classes.
  • Foam Mats to work on – wipe them down and stack them up on BACK WORK TABLE (under the paint brush color wheel).
• CLEANING UP
  • Wipe off all tools to remove extra clay
  • All extra clay goes in bucket or bags
  • No clay should go down the drain
  • 6 buckets and 6 sponges for washing tables are available – each table is responsible for their own work space.