Artists will use tools appropriately as they create a pinch pot face mug.
To plan out our faces, we will use cut paper to create some shapes that we can build in the clay.
Picasso was a famous artist who made some crazy faces.
What will your faces look like? Here is mine...
Are we ready for clay?
Here is the how to video...
Students will create a ceramic mug in the style of Polynesian Tiki Masks using a slab for the mug and coils and spheres for the facial features.
Here is some information about Tiki Masks. The Art of Polynesia
Here are some Tiki Mask samples.
We will start out by drawing our Tiki Mask Faces to be prepared when we have our clay.
Next, we will sculpt our mug using a slab. Like this...
And then add our Tiki's Facial features. Like this...