Unit 1: Pinch Method

Sketchbook Requirements: Minimum 3 pages of notes (8 ½” x 11”) Sketchbook or double that for smaller sketchbooks. Due at the end of the unit. 

You will make 3 different Pinch Pots using a different creative techniques for each.

Creative Technique Options:

• Stretch and Compress It

• Imprint It: wet or leatherhard

• Imprint  It and then Stretch It

• Add to It/Sprig It: Score and Slip all Additive pieces

• Carve It: Leather Hard clay only

• Paddle It: Begin with a thick-walled piece (See demo)

• Kurinuki It: Japanese Carving Method (See demo)

Each must have one of the following feet:

• Add a Foot: Carved-in Foot, Coil Foot, Slab Foot, Pinched Bowl Foot, Pushed-Out Foot, Pushed-in Foot, Nodule/Pod Feet. (Make sure your additive feet are in the same stage of dryness as your form).

Other Requirements

• Work is neat, clean, and refined

• Max 1lb of clay per form; minimum ½ pound per form 

• Minimally visible pinch marks

• Cracks have been compressed or removed

• Work shows the application of lessons and skills taught during the demos

• No wobble of form due to uneven foot

• No part of your pot can be thicker than 3/8”  

• Keep walls consistent thickness (avoid thick and thin areas by completing the Flattening Pinch

• Must be at least 3” tall

• Each pot must have an additive foot

• Must have your name and period on bottom

• Non-representational (does not resemble an animal, emoji, flowers, heart, etc)

• Your vessel must hold liquid

• Rounded and smooth rim (no cracks or unevenness in rim.

• No handles

• Do not carve pot from a solid block of clay

Length of Unit: 2 Weeks