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Hand Building with Clay

The Work of Our Hands: Hand Building with Clay 4

March 11, 2019 By Debra Disman

Hand Building with Clay class at Will Rogers School with the CREST Enrichment program has been a joy to teach.

Students learned pinch, coil and slab techniques, creating functional and fanciful items, and enjoying plenty of time to create their own personal visions after completing each class project.

After learning slab (flattening) technique, students created masks from slabs shaped over newspaper armatures/supports.

Both the Kindergarten and grades 1-5 classes let their inventiveness loose!


Employing the heart shape in different ways when class fell on February 14th!


Combining use of coils with use of slab technique.


Cutting out and incising (etching lines and texture into the clay) yields expressive results.


This young maker used a pencil to twist these star shapes into his mask. Big smile!


Cut out eyes, added teeth incising texture and puncturing the clay’s surface to create small round shapes enhance this piece.


This very talented young artist wanted to create Harry Potter in clay…


She succeeded. Her use of acrylic paint pulled the whole piece together into a stunner.

BRAVO to All Our Students!

Filed Under: Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 2-d, 3-d, After School Arts Classes, After School Enrichment, Art Classes, Art Education, Art teaching, Ceramic slab technique, Ceramics, Children's Art Classes, City of Santa Monica, City of Santa Monica Youth Office, City of Santa Monica Youth Services, Clay, Clay slabs, Coil Technique, Community and Cultural Services City of Santa Monica, CREST Enrichment, Dimension, Face, Faces, Hand Building with Clay, Mask, mask making, Sculptural, Slab tecxhnique, Teaching Artist, Teaching Artistry, Three-Dimensional

The Work of Our Hands: Hand Building with Clay 3

March 7, 2019 By Debra Disman

Hand Building with Clay class at Will Rogers Elementary School with the CREST Enrichment program has been a joy to teach.

Here behold first – fifth grade students get their hands in the “earth”…

 

Filed Under: Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 3-d, After School Arts Classes, After School Enrichment, Art Classes, Art Education, Art teaching, Ceramic slab technique, Ceramics, Children's Art Classes, City of Santa Monica, City of Santa Monica Youth Office, Clay, Clay slabs, Coil Technique, Community and Cultural Services City of Santa Monica, CREST Enrichment, Face, Faces, Hand Building with Clay, Mask, masks, Sclptural, Slab tecxhnique, Teaching Artist, Teaching Artistry, Three-Dimensional, Youth Services City of Santa Monica

The Work of Our Hands: Hand Building with Clay 2

February 27, 2019 By Debra Disman

Hand Building with Clay class at Will Rogers Elementary School with the CREST Enrichment program has been a joy to teach.

Below behold students aged 5-6 get their hands in the “earth”.


We had class on Valentine’s Day, which proved to be an inspiration.

From the heart.

Filed Under: Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 3-d, After School Arts Classes, After School Enrichment, Art Classes, Art Education, Art teaching, Ceramic slab technique, Ceramics, Children's Art Classes, City of Santa Monica, City of Santa Monica Youth Office, City of Santa Monica Youth Services, Clay, Clay slabs, Coil Technique, Community and Cultural Services City of Santa Monica, CREST Enrichment, Face, Faces, Hand Building with Clay, Mask, masks, Sclptural, Slab tecxhnique, Teaching Artist, Teaching Artistry, Three-Dimensional

The Work of Our Hands: Hand Building with Clay 1

February 24, 2019 By Debra Disman

Creating masks in our Hand Building with Clay class at McKinley Elementary after school with the CREST Enrichment program has been a joy. With majority boys in the class, the tempo had to be high energy.

Students learned how to “pound out” slabs (flat) pieces of clay the week before, then created “armatures” (support structures) of newspaper, over which they stretched their slabs, so that their masks would be three dimensional.

It was exciting to watch the students develop their mask characters, inevitably thinking in terms of story…inspired by characters from film, television, and books, but always their own. Students used coil, scoring, incising and even pinch pot techniques to create their mask characters.


Creating detail.

 


Two faces, in one?


Creating texture!


Inspired by the zombie craze.


Our one young girl in class that day created…a self-portrait?


Creative use of coils…


Figuring it out…


A very coherent expression.


Tattoo?


What is going on here? Perhaps this young maker is working out his feelings through creating.

It would not be the first time…

All hail, the healing powers of Art.

Filed Under: Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 3-d, After School Arts Classes, After School Enrichment, Art Classes, Art Education, Art teaching, Ceramic slab technique, Ceramics, Children's Art Classes, City of Santa Monica, City of Santa Monica Youth Office, Clay, Clay slabs, Coil Technique, CREST Enrichment, Face, Faces, Hand Building with Clay, Mask, masks, Santa Monica Community and Cultural Services, Sclptural, Slab tecxhnique, Teaching Artist, Teaching Artistry, Three-Dimensional

enRICHment III

May 19, 2018 By Debra Disman

enRICHment III

First through fifth graders have a blast pinching, coiling, flattening, carving and incising clay in  Santa Monica’s CREST Enrichment program which provides a variety of after school classes in Santa Monica Public Schools.

In this class, we invited parents and siblings to join as, as students painted their clay projects from the past month. A wonderful time was held by all!


“Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid…”….


Laying out the work…pinch pot, coil and slab techniques.


Getting messy and loving it!


Careful work done by all three.


Painting mask faces.


Primary colors red, blue and yellow are laid out on one plate/palette, while new and inventive colors are mixed on another.


Little brother gets into the act too!


Sad? Mad? Bad? All three?


Sharing a palette.

A rich and colorFULL way to wind down our class, and wind up for summer.
The creative juices are flowing, and ready to take on more challenges.

Filed Under: Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Acrylic paints, Ceramics, Children's Art Classes, City of Santa Monica, Clay, Coil Technique, CREST Enrichment, CREST Enrichment Classes, Enrichment Classes, FAMILY ARTMAKING, Hand Building with Clay, Painting Ceramics, Pinch pot Technique, Santa Monica Public Schools, Slab technique

enRICHment II

May 14, 2018 By Debra Disman

enRICHment II

Working in clay with Kindergartners…through Santa Monica’s CREST Enrichment program, at Santa Monica Public Schools…after school.

Students “gently pounded” out slabs (flat but not too thin pieces, in this case disks) of clay, and used them as surfaces upon which to create.

They drew into, wrote upon,  incised, built onto and punctured the clay to create faces and designs.
Pencils, paper rolls, wooden sticks and of course hands, became their tools of engagement.

The clay is magical earth, which rocks and rolls, and finds expression, or gives it, to the young makers.

Filed Under: Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Ceramics, Children's Art Classes, City of Santa Monica, Clay, Coil Pots, Coil Technique, CREST Enrichment, CREST Enrichment Classes, Enrichment Classes, Hand Building with Clay, Pinch pot Technique, Pinch pots, Santa Monica Public Schools, Slab technique

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