For this first unit students experiment with simple handbuilding exercises to explore pinching, coiling, and slab building, as well as both physical and visual texture and color via slip painting. The first steps should result in a series of 10+ forms (minimum required).
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Nathan Prouty, grouping of various forms
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Once the 10 forms (hollow, enclosed volumes both geometric and organic) are constructed the will be used to create composite forms by stacking and combining some of their first studies. The project culminates with a series of three sculptures that explore composition and visual relationships established through arrangement and/or surface/color/texture.
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| Dennis Gallagher, Man & Broken Column, 2004 |
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| Tony Hepburn |
Many options exist for how students can interpret this unit, which is designed to develop basic skills in forming, joining, understanding the various stages of clay drying, development of both surface texture and color. There is not really any one right or wrong answer here, which provides the opportunity for students to discover what shapes, images, colors, textures and building methods are most interesting to them.
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