This vessel is called Terracotta Calyx Krater. It was made in 490 B.C. .It is 18.5 inches tall and the diameter is 20.25 inches.  It is used to mix wine and water. It is shaped like a bowl or a pot so the shape is perfect for holding liquids. The embellishment is men putting on…

My idiom is ” couch potato”. Artist Collaborate~ I received helpful feedback from the members of my table. The most helpful feedback I got was to make the arms of my couch even thickness and to make them the same sizes. Another piece of helpful feedback I got from another person was to smooth the…

My favorite piece is my  miniature pinch pot (the one with the blue polka dots and the light blue base. I like this pot the best because it was the first pot I glazed so it was like my trail run. I like the polka dots that I used to embellish. The technique was easy because…

this pot was made by Jun Kaneko pot is untitled  The potter that made the piece of art on page 152 figure 6-1. This pot looks skinny at the bottom and flares out in the middle and get skinnier at the top. It was probably made on the wheel. The glazes used were black and…

Tools and materials~ In potttery there are many different tools that do a variety of things. For example the loop tool helped me to embellish my coiled bowl. To make my toothbrush holder different I used a serrated edge scrapper to make little loops on the outside of the bowl. I used a small loop…

STRETCH AND EXPLORE~ I tried making a lid for my toothbrush holder. I have never put anything on on the top of my pot. The toothbrush holder came out pretty good. Adding the lid was interesting because making the lid look like it was a part the original pot was difficult. I had to make…

While I was embellishing my pot I was looking for stamps I could use but the stamps were not working out. I ended up using the loop tool. I used the loop tool to press the shapes into the outside of my bowl. I pressed the tool into a abstract pattern all over the outside….

 When I came across any problems such as cracks while making my pinch pots I used my fingers to smooth over the cracks. If that didn’t work I got a little chunk of clay to cover the crack and I smoothed the cracks using a paddle. The last pot I created, the wall was too…

Using ceramic art vocabulary can help us understand art by making us aware of different parts of each pot. When we want to make one of the parts of the pot different we can know the specific vocabulary to better understand the parts of each pot. It is also helpful to know vocabulary for when…

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