You have two options for your Clay Challenge. For whichever option you choose, please design three (3) ideas in your sketchbook.
1. Animal Effigy Pottery
Create an Animal Effigy Vessel (a vessel is a container, like a bowl, cup, etc.)
NOTE: Animal effigy pottery is found all over the world. One interesting area is near us! The Mississippian culture in the Mississippi valley (C.E. (christian era) 800-1600) created these pieces. They were found in archeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. (One big site is in Illinois and another is in Arkansas.)
Watch a tutorial (how to video) HERE.
More information on effigy pottery HERE.
Historical (OLD!!) examples pictured below:
1. Animal Effigy Pottery
Create an Animal Effigy Vessel (a vessel is a container, like a bowl, cup, etc.)
NOTE: Animal effigy pottery is found all over the world. One interesting area is near us! The Mississippian culture in the Mississippi valley (C.E. (christian era) 800-1600) created these pieces. They were found in archeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. (One big site is in Illinois and another is in Arkansas.)
Watch a tutorial (how to video) HERE.
More information on effigy pottery HERE.
Historical (OLD!!) examples pictured below:
2. Creative Clay Box
Make a lidded slab box shaped like an object.
Basic slab box construction demo HERE. (Yours will be not be a square, but the general idea is the same.)
Links to sites where the above pictures were found
http://autumntaly.blogspot.com/2010/11/crafting-with-clay-
http://ceramicsvhs.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html
http://blog.creativekismet.com/2006/06/23/boxes/
http://autumntaly.blogspot.com/2010/11/crafting-with-clay-
http://ceramicsvhs.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html
http://blog.creativekismet.com/2006/06/23/boxes/
