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.