| Ceramics students worked with coil construction
techniques to complete some beautiful ancient Greek style pots. As 2004 was
the year for the return of the Olympic Games to Athens, students paid
tribute to the ancient Greeks by creating some large pots that were inspired
by the distinctive red and black pottery styles of the past. These pots were made with red Shigaraki clay which looked a lot
like terracotta and then brushed it with several layers of black engobe.
Patterns and images were then scratched back into the leather hard clay to
reveal the red clay under the black glaze. |
Catherine incising a design onto her pot
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Jeff spent a good deal of time working on his pattern
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Justine paints several coats of rich black
engobe over the red clay |
Molly has just completed her decorating
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Miyori decided on some graceful flowing forms for her pattern |
Ryan works on the strong bands of colour that radiate around
the pot |
Rachel has just finished working on her hexagonal pot |
Stephen incises the image of a warrior on his pot
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The whole class gather for a photo before work goes into the
kilns |
Fumie works on joining her coils carefully |
After the coils have been smoothed Fumie paints the clay with
the black engobe
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Jeff working on his coils |
A happy Justine after she has finished incising her large
trophy form |
Ryan shows us how he adds the coils |
Allie selects a traditional Greek repeating pattern to circle
her pot |
Anne's pot is almost bigger than her! |
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