Winter plates

Here are a few of my winter plates that just come out of the kiln.  They look great.  

Coils under the sea

This is one of my 3rd grade coil projects. The student first drew a picture.  Using lines to make the pictures.  Then they rolled coils and placed them on the paper.  After it was fired they colored with crayons and painted black paint on it. Then washed it off.  

Coil, slab flowers. Update

Well I been trying to do new clay projects each year. So instead of doing fish with my 3rd graders.  I went with flowers. My students did a drawing on a 6x6 inch square and only using lines to make there flowers.  They I had my student roll coils out and recreate there drawing. We smooth it all out and combine them all together.  After they were fired we coloed them with crayons and put black paint over it and then washed it all.  I love doing that with the clay.  Over all a great project.  

Update:  Yes after my student recreated their drawing with the clay coils. They do this by making it right on top of there drawing.  When they are done they smooth out.  The. I would take a rib, and make sure they were really smooth and combined.   So when you flip it over you get your design.  The only problem I had is when they are drying they curled a bit.  So I think if I would make sure the smooth size was facing they would curl so much. 

Clay owls ver. 2.0

Ok I do t really post stuff unless we are all the way done with a project. But I wanted you all to have a tasted of what we are doing. Well last year the other art teacher I work with changed are clay owl project to a slab rectangle one. But I still did the old one which you can find on the my blog. So this year I tried the slab one out but with a circle. I know what you are thinking what a rebel I am. Anywho this is what they look like so for. I will post when we are all way done with them.
Over and out.