Unit 2: Pinch Pot Bottles

Requirements

For this unit, you will build on your pinch method skills to create three pinch method bottles.

• 3 sketches where you draw what you would like to make due before you begin building.

Recommended sizing

• 1 small bottle: 3 inches minimum height (2 limes of clay) 

• 1 medium bottle: 4 inches minimum height (2 lemons worth of clay) 

• 1 large bottle: 5 inches minimum height (2 oranges worth of clay)

• 2.5 lbs of clay maximum per bottle

For this unit, you will build on your pinch method skills to create three pinch method bottles.

• 3 sketches where you draw what you would like to make due before you begin building.

Recommended sizing

• 1 small bottle: 3 inches minimum height (2 limes of clay) 

• 1 medium bottle: 4 inches minimum height (2 lemons worth of clay) 

• 1 large bottle: 5 inches minimum height (2 oranges worth of clay)

• 2 lbs of clay maximum per bottle

• Each bottle must be a minimum of 5" tall and a maximum of 8"

• Each bottle must have a body, shoulder, and neck

• Wall thickness MUST NOT EXCEED 3/8"

• One bottle must be sprigged/have a minimum of 30 small pieces of clay added to it or 75% must be covered by added clay (make thinner bc you will be adding clay to it).

• One bottle must be incised or carved (Make thicker bc you will be carving clay off the wall/from it) MUST BE CARVED WHEN CLAY IS LEATHERHARD 

• One bottle must be “pierced” at least ten times or more. NO hearts, stars, or daisies, etc--representational piercing. MUST BE PIERCED WHEN CLAY IS LEATHERHARD 

• Each bottle must have a least one neck

• Each bottle should have an additive foot

• NO wobble of form due to uneven foot

• All evidence of the pinch method (pinch marks) is erased

• Your work should not be “representational” (no snakes, hearts, wings, octopi, stars, moons, sun, etc.) This includes your piercing and decoration and not just the forms.

Pacing: One bottle a week for three weeks