Tag Archives: clay project

Day of the Dead

My Art-8 students created these fabulous Sugar Skulls. They came out of the kiln yesterday just in time for a Day of the Dead celebration. We used the slab technique over a plastic head mold. They added and subtracted clay. I helped them remove the sculpture from the form replacing it with paper towels, slashed the cheekbones to create the skeleton shape and added holes to weave a wire through them.

Projects were bisque fired then glazed with these great confetti style glazes. Now they can hang on a wall to be enjoyed for many years to come! <3

New Year for the New Year

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My Studio in Art students just finished these mugs.  So – it was a glazing project.  They were ready-made bisque-fired cappuccino mugs.  Students used Mayco and Amaco glazes to create an animal of the Chinese Zodiac in honor of Chinese New Year.

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Nobody picked the monkey though!

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I took these images to post here.  Their response?

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“Oh, you and that blog!” with an eye roll, lol.

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