Unit: Handbuilding Techniques Lesson: Coil Grade Level: High School. Introduction: Clay has been used for many things throughout human history:

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1 Unit: Handbuilding Techniques Lesson: Coil Grade Level: High School 1 Introduction: Clay has been used for many things throughout human history: a writing surface building material money (e.g., In the Near East, the Babylonians issued hollow balls of clay with little stones inside. A mark impressed on the outside showed how much it was worth.) storage containers for food and drink cooking vessels and serving plates ballast (weight placed in a ship to enhance stability. Clay vessels filled with spices, olive oil, and wine were shipped and traded throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia.) chamber pots ceramic shields or tiles on space ships, in engine parts, electronic device parts and in communications a major tool for dating cultures in archeology studies In this lesson, we will construct cylindrical vessels using coil handbuilding technique with the assistance of a form such as a container. The finished products are flower vases. The finished pieces must have exterior decorations or textural designs. You can use the tools we have in our studio or your own personal tools from home to create the designs. Exterior decorations will give life to your finished art piece, because they add interests, value and meanings to your work. To be successful, you must treat the surface of clay as a drawing surface. Pay close attentions to your clay and follow all proper procedures to prevent problems. It should take atleast 7 days to create the vases: 3-4 days to create the vessel and 2-3 days to decorate or design the piece. The finished vases will take 3-5 days to dry, 2 days to get it bisque, 1-2 day/s to get it glaze, and 2 days to get it glazed fire. As you can see, this is a long process so stay on schedule and follow all proper procedures closely to prevent unnecessary problems and headaches. As always, ceramics can be messy so wear proper clothing for this lesson.

2 2 Rationale for Teaching Lesson: Students will become familiar with basic coil handbuilding technique. Students will construct 4 wide by 10 tall by ¼ thick vases. Essential Understanding: Lesson Objectives 1. Learn how to use clay as a medium for expression in art through exterior decorations 2. Learn some basic handbuilding techniques : coil 3. Become familiar with the procedures and processes of working with clay 4. Use coil method to create a vessel that is around 4 wide X 10 tall X ¼ thick 1. Ceramics are clay objects fired to a high temperature 2. Artists use clay in many ways to create art as well as functional pottery 3. Form and function must work together as a unit 4. Exterior decorations add value and interests to a finished piece 5. Clay can be form to create useful objects in everyday life 6. Clay follows specific guidelines to achieve quality finished products Materials and Tools Earthenware clay, 4 X7 shape or container, canvases, rulers, wedging wires, wooden strips, clay knives, metal ribs, wooden ribs, sponges, water buckets, slip, plastic bags, glazes, etc. Vocabulary Clay, ceramics, earthenware, slab, coil, leather hard, mold, wedging wire, rolling pin, fettling knife, metal rib, wooden rib, wooden modeling tool, slip, synthetic sponge, kiln, bisque, greenware, firing, glaze, vitrify, etc. Wisconsin Learning Standards:The links below will How the Standards are addressed in this lesson:

3 give you the complete Art Education Standards for Wisconsin. A.12.6 Use art as a basic way of thinking and communicating about the world C.12.9 Use ongoing reflective strategies to assess and better understand one s work and that of others during the creative process C Assume personal responsibility for their learning and the creative process E.12.1 Communicate ideas by producing sophisticated studio art forms, such as drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, jewelry, fibers, and ceramics G.12.1 Use visual images as tools for thinking and communicating I.12.7 Work independently, collaboratively, and with deep concentration when creating works of art 3 A.12.6: Manipulation of materials and tools successfully to express and communicate feelings of accomplishments. C.12.9: Experimentations with materials and tools to find creative solutions to an art problem through trails and errors. C.12.10: Being true to the art process and investigate it fully through self-discipline and readiness to learn. E.12.1: Understand how a message can be delivered through a well crafted artwork. A picture worth a thousand words. G.12.1: Understand the importance of staying true to an original content and use it as a reference through careful observations. I.12.7: Actively engage in the process through experimentations and investigations using the tools and materials creatively to produce a quality piece of artwork. Lesson Time Line Phase 1 (Day 1) 1. Discuss lesson plan, process, clay techniques, and show examples with the class using LCD projector. Phase 2 (Day 2) 1. Demonstration on coil technique 2. Explain proper procedures and processes for working with clay 3. Go over some basic ceramic terms 4. Create a 4 X10 flower vases using coil and slab techniques Phase 3 (Day 4-7) 5. Student construct and decorate the vessels Phase 4 (Day 7-Project due at end of class) 6. Students let finished pieces dry (This process will take atleast 3-5 days for the clay to dry thoroughly) Phase 5 (Day 12) 7. Bisque finished pieces Phase 6 (Day 14) 8. Discuss glazing techniques, procedures and safety 9. Show students glazing technique and process 10. Students glaze their bisquewares Phase 7 (Day 10)

4 4 11. Students finish glazing their pencil holders Guided Instructions Students will use the whole allocated class period to work on the assigned project until the project is finished or the designated due date. All activities during Art class must be relevant to the assigned art project only. Not doing anything educational during the allocated time for art is not acceptable. No daily class participation points will be awarded when student is not working on the assigned project. Students may read a book or do other homework quietly if the project is done to the highest level possible, an A quality. This is usually true for very gifted and talented students who are extremely motivated and work incredibly hard. ART IS AN INTELLECTUAL AND PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS THAT REQUIRED STUDENTS TO INVESTIGATE AND FULLY EXPERIMENT WITH THE MEDIUM TO LEARN PROBLEM SOVLING SKILLS AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE FAVORABLE SOLUTIONS. Modification/s Students may take the project with them to work on, but the project must be brought back to class the next day so students can continue with the learning process in class. All images are at different level of difficulties. Students with IEP and known learning disabilities may use less challenging images for their projects. Projects may be extended beyond the due date if need be without penalty according to their IEP s. Students with EXCUSED ABSENCES during the project will receive extra and outside of class time only to complete the project without penalty. Students can get extra guidance and help with the project from teacher between 2:45-3:30 on most days if the teacher is available. Pottery Tutorial Coil Construction This is another technique using coils to construct a piece of pottery. This technique involve both making coils and pressing them into a pattern. (Roll coils) Roll coils in a circular fashion.

5 (Make a pattern) 5 Line up coils rolls as seen here. Then place a couple coils on top above and below the coil rolls. (Fill in gaps) (Scrape and Smooth) Press a ball of clay in each gap that you can see through. pattern will still be visible. Scrape all the coils together. Don't worry about the other side, your coil (Straighten edges) After the coils have been scraped and smoothed, you might want to

6 6 straighten the edges by tapping a yard stick against the edge. Your piece is now like a slab, however, your coil pattern will still be visible on the other side. (Lift carefully) (Make a bottom) Carefully lift your coil slab. (Bend and attach to the bottom) Cut out a shape for your bottom. I used a cup as a guide for my bottom. around the bottom you cut out. Carefully bend the coil slab

7 (Smooth the bottom) 7 Flip over your piece then scrape and smooth the bottom. A finger that has been dipped in water works great for smoothing. (Finishing touches) the coil pattern back onto the piece. On the area where the coil slab was put together use a pencil and draw (Finishing touches - Smooth the top edge) Smooth out the top and you piece is ready to dry slowly. It is important to dry the piece slowly because the grooves from the coils will crack if drying occurs too quickly.

8 Name Class Project: COIL VESSEL Due date: Category Artistic ability / growth/readiness to learn Efficient use of studio time Application of the given process (follow the directions and processes as demonstrated to complete a project, etc.) Quality & craftsmanship of the finished piece / presentation Use of Elements of Design: line, shape, space, form, color, texture, value Use of Principles of Design: balance, contrast, movement, rhythm, pattern, repetition, emphasis, harmony, variety, proportion, unity Use of materials and clean work space (Daily responsibilities) Creativity/Originality (Exterior decorations and unique form to add interests to a finished product) Minimal 5-6 artistic growth and maturity, finished art piece exhibits maximum art skills, beyond expectations, came to class on time and prepared, initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently, using intellectual skills consistently to produce quality art student worked quietly the entire studio time enthusiastically, independently, collaboratively, and with deep concentration on assigned art piece full understanding and successful engagement with the art process, concept, or technique excellent care, very high quality finished art piece, ready for show excellent application of the Elements and Principles of Design in sophisticated ways no or little evidence on use of materials and tools successfully and cleaned up personal work area appropriately with little reminding art piece is not interesting with simple details and boring to look at, evidence of thorough experimentation with the creative process is not visible, art piece is not true to original Basic 7-8 Somewhat strong evidence of artistic growth and maturity, finished art piece exhibits maximum art skills, beyond expectations, came to class on time and prepared, initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently, using intellectual skills consistently to produce quality art somewhat strong evidence of student worked quietly the entire studio time enthusiastically, independently, collaboratively, and with deep concentration on assigned art piece somewhat strong evidence of full understanding and successful engagement with the art process, concept, or technique somewhat strong evidence of excellent care, very high quality finished art piece, ready for show somewhat strong evidence of excellent application of the Elements and Principles of Design in sophisticated ways Somewhat strong evidence on use of materials and tools successfully and cleaned up personal work area appropriately with little reminding art piece is somewhat interesting with few details and somewhat boring to look at, evidence of thorough experimentation with the creative process is somewhat visible, art piece is true to original Proficient 9 strong evidence of artistic growth and maturity, finished art piece exhibits maximum art skills, beyond expectations, came to class on time and prepared, initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently, using intellectual skills consistently to produce quality art strong evidence of student worked quietly the entire studio time enthusiastically, independently, collaboratively, and with deep concentration on assigned art piece strong evidence of full understanding and successful engagement with the art process, concept, or technique strong evidence of excellent care, very high quality finished art piece, ready for show strong evidence of excellent application of the Elements and Principles of Design in sophisticated ways Strong evidence on use of materials and tools successfully and cleaned up personal work area appropriately with little reminding art piece is interesting with many details and pleasant to look at, evidence of thorough experimentation with the creative process is visible, art piece is true to original Advanced 10 artistic growth and maturity, finished art piece exhibits maximum art skills, beyond expectations, came to class on time and prepared, initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently, using intellectual skills consistently to produce quality art student worked quietly the entire studio time enthusiastically, independently, collaboratively, and with deep concentration on assigned art piece full understanding and successful engagement with the art process, concept, or technique excellent care, very high quality finished art piece, ready for show excellent application of the Elements and Principles of Design in sophisticated ways very strong evidence on use materials and tools successfully and cleaned personal work area appropriately with no reminding art piece is highly interesting with many details and beautiful to look at, evidence of thorough experimentation with the creative process is highly visible, art piece is true to original 8 Out of 70 points: Your My grade grade Project is complete; an incomplete project will not get higher than a 50% due to the learning process is not complete YES NO Late ( 1 letter grade off for each day) Rubric (5points off for missing rubric) Overall Grade for Project Total %