Class 23

Homework - For All
Please make a small maquette of how your work will be completely installed in the gallery.
To prepare for final, all green ware work needs to be out on the firing shelves and drying by this Sunday, November 11th. If you do not meet this deadline, you will likely not have glazed work for final. Please remember that this will mean that you will not have photos of your completed work to turn in for a grade which will affect your performance in the course considerably. 

As soon as you have work that comes out of the kiln, make sure you glaze it and get it back on the shelves with a note that states the firing temperature [Cone 6] and wads glued to prop it off the shelves. If you are being experimental with any glazing, make a diaper for your work. You may use existing diapers, but some of these do have glaze on them. Please make your own if you want it to be free of debris and try to have it bisqued before you fire it to glaze temperatures. 

Refer to the calendar for the last days to bisque and glaze. The deadlines are very soon.

Homework - Figure Sculpture

Statements
Please start making a rough draft of your statements for the last piece of the semester


Portrait Bust
These should be gutted and put back together by this Sunday, November 11th. Once you have done this, cover it in plastic for 24 hours. After this point I will be making a 'drying tent' for the work and this will accelerate drying immensely. We all caved work out in beginning. The only thing changing this time is that your form is larger and more complex. This means you will probably have to cut it a few time to get everything thinned out, just like we did with the hands. Once we put it back together, we still slip, score, and use coils to hide the seams. Making sure that the final form is completely enclosed will keep the bottom from cracking. Be sure that any slab you add to do this is as dry as the form you are adding it to. To dry well, your pieces should be left as thin as possible, but no so thin that it breaks under its own weight. It also cannot be so delicate that it cannot be moved without breaking once bone dry. I would like to put your work in the drying tent by the end of class on Tuesday, November 13th.