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Teachers and Clay - is for teachers or club leaders wanting to use clay with junior high age or older students. It covers the making of a basic pinch pot including suggested pinched lids. The techniques of making pinch pots are used to teach the basic clay skills needed when working with clay. Pinch pot people uses an upside down pinch pot as the starting point for creating cartoon-like figures, birds and fish. A wide variety of pinch pot heads are illustrated with step by step instructions. Starting with a simple cartoon pinch pot head students are led through semi-realistic and realistic pinch pot heads and finally realistic pinch pot people.
Teachers and club leaders will find suggestions for working with pinch pots in the junior and intermediate art classrooms or in a club setting. Basic information including a discussion of materials and costs of making pinch pots, the arrangement of the classroom and classroom routines, marking rubrics, drying and firing in the kiln, glazing and detailed lesson plans. A gallery of examples and student work is included.
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Pinch Pot Tutorials Step-by-step illustrated instructions for the suggested activities for the senior public or junior high school students.
One of my interests is figure sculpture. The pinch pot is a surprisingly good starting point for sculpture. I have created a number of pinch pot people with much more realistic faces - faces that would not look out of place on modern sculpture. The technique is not difficult. In fact most of the techniques are the same for pinch pot cartoon characters or more realistic sculpture. The main difference lies in the proportions used. With most of the pinch pot people the faces are larger, often filling most of the body. The more realistic faces take up less of the pinch pot or have more realistic features; smaller noses, ears, chins, etc.
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Pinch Pot Gallery. Example of pinch pot heads, people and animals.
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Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 David Ducker
Created Sept. 2003
updated Aug 2004, May 2005, Sept 2005, Dec 30, 2005, Jan. 2006, March 2, 2006, Jan 10, 2008
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