Helpful ceramics links

http://www.galleryforrent.com

Great Ceramic Sculpture

http://youtube.com/mudslingerarchive
These are some videos. Once you click on a video the side bar has lots
more throwing videos. It is good to see many people throwing.

http://digitalfire.com/4sight/material/
This link has technical and chemical formulas of the items we work with
in a ceramics lab

http://www.claymaker.com/ceramic_central/info/glazes.htm
Nice site that describes glaze materials in terms of their function in
a glaze recipe. (chemical properties)

http://www.ceramicstudies.me.uk/
********* This is a good site for the history of ceramics including
work, wheels, and kilns

http://www.lagunaclay.com/
The first link is some nice work, the second is a good resource for
finding materials.


http://www.ceramicstoday.com/
Good ceramics references

http://www.studiopotter.org/
Good overall site

http://www.gustavsonstudios.com/
Local ceramic artist who alters thrown forms and Raku's

http://www.anagama-west.com/
I like wood fire so I put this in.

http://www.nmpotters.org/
New Mexico Potters, lots of images of work.

http://www.greatinfusions.com/tpcups.html

http://www.delioceramics.com/gallery.html


>http://www.tariki.com/
Neat totems

http://www.negentropic.com/clay/process/firing-soda.shtml
Some guy's soda firing

http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/3wdev/GATE_DL/BUILDING/BK.HTM
A neat kiln used for making bricks

Doing your thing. w/ structure

Art 7B - CERAMICS: WHEEL THROWING I
Section 52809 MW 8:00 a.m. -11:10 p.m.
Cabrillo Community College
Room - 307
Instructor: Geoffrey Nicastro

Homework #3 Design Your Ideal Assignment.

Define the Criteria for your project.

Discuss: Scale of the work,

quantities you intend to create,

and try to describe the “skill set” you hope to develop.

Bring in imagery related to your project:

Web site addresses, photos, books, and/or drawings.

Consult with instructor to brainstorm and discuss feasibility

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History in the making

Art 7B - CERAMICS: WHEEL THROWING I
Section 52809 MW 8:00 a.m. -11:10 p.m.
Cabrillo Community College
Room - 307
Instructor: Geoffrey Nicastro

Homework #4 Using History to your advantage

The goal of this assignment is to encourage research, and develop a system for discovering more about your own tastes in art.

Search the internet, library, or your favorite source of imagery to find a historical shape that you would like to attempt. Use your sketch pad to plan out how you will divide the form to make it in parts. Make at least one version of this historical shape. If the form is exceedingly challenging parts can be assembled leather hard with or without the use of the potters wheel.

Hints: Throwing in sections is traditionally used to create large or exceedingly complex forms. There is no size requirement, learning the techniques involved in throwing sectional cylinders can be used on any scale.

When presenting this work (ie at final or critiques) please bring images of the original work(s).

Make for a contest.

Art 7B - CERAMICS: WHEEL THROWING I
Section 52809 MW 8:00 a.m. -11:10 p.m.
Cabrillo Community College
Room - 307
Instructor: Geoffrey Nicastro

Homework #5 Plan on putting it out there.

The goal of this assignment is to encourage research, and begin to think about connecting with the ceramic’s world at large. It is also a way to use the outside world to inspire your next studio project.

Part 1 Search the internet, library, or a ceramics periodicals for a ceramics contest or call for entries. If the contest is something you would really like to enter, be sure to discuss time constraints with me, and we can create a time table that will help you meet your dead lines. If you choose a contest that has passed or is annual, take the time to look for images of work that has been selected in the past.

Try to focus on a subject that is of interest to you

http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/

http://www.ceramicstoday.com/links/competitions.html

Discuss project with Instructor

Make at least one work for a contest. Don’t be concern with deadlines, if you find something that has already passed it is ok.

When presenting this work (ie at final or critiques) please bring a description of the contest (ie: name, criteria, juror/s, location, prize ect......

Design a bowl

Art 7B - CERAMICS: WHEEL THROWING I
Section 52809 MW 8:00 a.m. -11:10 p.m.
Cabrillo Community College
Room - 307
Instructor: Geoffrey Nicastro

Homework #4 Design the perfect 2 lb. bowl

The goal this assignment is to broaden your vocabulary in bowls.

“Repetition with variation” is a common tool used across all art forms. This assignment will use the repetitive task of making many bowls to lead you your perfect design.

The criteria for this assignment:

Part 1

a. Make between three and eight unique 2 lb. bowl shapes.

b. Vary the shapes; wide and low, steep and tall, bowls with the rim smaller than it’s widest point, or bowls with a flared rim.....

c. Vary the lips/rim ; Folded, split, simple, or altered.....

d. Finish the foot of each bowl differently: Traditional trimming, added foot ring,, trimmed round with feet added, or artfully carved.....

Part 2

Consult with instructor and select a form from part 1 to make a set .

Complete a set of 4 bowls following the design chosen from part 1

Part 3

Use bowls from part 1 to find a glaze combination you will use on your set of 4. Hold off glazing set of 4 till glaze tests return. KEEP A GLAZE LOG

Part 4

Glaze your set of 4 with your chosen result from part 3

Plate Assignment

Art 7B - CERAMICS: WHEEL THROWING I
Section 52809 MW 8:00 a.m. -11:10 p.m.
Cabrillo Community College
Room - 307
Instructor: Geoffrey Nicastro

Homework #2

Making Plates and Altered Rims.

Goals: The emphasis of this assignment is to challenge your creativity with rims, practice your trimming skills, and to work with measured amounts of clay.

Assignment #2 Create a MAXIMUM total of 12 minimum total of 4 plates with at least 3 different style rims using 3 distinct weights of clay.

• 3.5lbs Dinner plate
• 1.5lbs Sandwich plate
• .5 lbs Saucer

1. Use the scale to weigh your clay.
Starting with a known amount of clay will give you a platform for consistency.

2. Measure with your hands!!
A regular amount of clay will produce the same size plate each time. If you learn to use your hands for measuring your centered ball of clay it will help you make consistent forms over long periods of time. Try to make a set of 4 the same size.

3. Be creative with the rims on each plate .
This can be done while the clay is moving on the wheel, or at any point in it's stages to bone dry. Developing a style of your own will make your work stand out. The rim, or lip, can make your form speak.

4. Finish the underside of each plate.
Plates will provide a trimming challenge if you do not take care to manage the drying of your work. Feel free to explore beyond the traditional foot ring. NO CRACKED or UNFINISHED bottom plates should be fired.

5. Experiment with engobes and scraffito.
The plate is an ideal surface for design work. Save at least 2 plates for scraffito glazing.

Make it tall

Art 7B - CERAMICS: WHEEL THROWING I
Section 52809 MW 8:00 a.m. -11:10 p.m.
Cabrillo Community College
Room - 307
Instructor: Geoffrey Nicastro


Homework #1 Throwing a cylinder.
Greenware Due ~Sept. 26
Assignment #1
A musician learns to play scales as a foundation for their music, as the potter must learn to make cylinders as a foundation for their forms. The cylinder is the foundation of all forms on the potter’s wheel. The assignment is to complete 10 simple cylindrical forms.

The goal of this assignment is to train our hands to make cylinders, including; wedging, centering, opening, pulling, forming, trimming, and cut-off. To keep this exercise interesting I have divided the project into parts.

Part 1. 4 trimmed cylinders. devoid of character. Use the same size ball of clay and vary the diameter of each cylinder. Cylinders should have straight and even thickness walls,.

Part 2. 4 formed and trimmed drinking vessels. Use the same size ball of clay and vary shape and lip in each form.

Part 3. 2 formed and trimmed cylinders with handles and/or spouts.

Part 4. Demonstrate at least 3 different methods for glazing these 10 works (ie: Dipping, pouring, scrafitto design, stencils, brushwork with oxides) Glazing handout to follow.