Nutcrackers 2019!

One of my favorite projects and this year's 6th grade did not disappoint! They are finishing up this week and hoping we can get them all completed before Christmas break!  Love these gorgeous paintings!

Candy corn!

6th grade observed real candy corn, studying how the lights and shadows look as they lay on paper. Then used what they noticed to add shading and highlights to their larger-than-life painted candy corn art.  This is one of my favorite projects every year!

First round of glaze firings - 6th grade coil pots!

I had planned to wait until I had more pieces ready to post, but these are so beautiful I had to post a few pics! This project has been a lengthy process, between all of the steps and so many students missing days for the flu that hit our county hard.  Now the weather has turned warm and everything outside is blooming and beautiful, just like these amazing pieces!

I know... those paper sculptures have lived in the display case for a while, but they looked so great with the pottery so I left a few. :)

In case you missed my previous post, the underglazes made our pieces look like this:

 Easter pottery anyone? 

Then we coated with a few coats of clear, which really made my students anxious! The clear gloss glaze has an aqua tint that completely covers their beautiful colors, but fires clear.  I had to reassure them over and over that it would not ruin their colors! 

These houses, along with 7th grade’s gnomes, are in the kiln firing to their beautiful splendor as I type! More pics to come! 

6th grade coil pots

Hooray!  My kiln is fixed!  I was able to fire 1st semester art projects a few weeks ago and get them out of the way so we could start clay with 2nd semester.  My 6th graders are working on coil pots, and they are so beautiful my other grade levels are wanting to make these too! I'll post their projects later, but 7th is making gnomes and 8th is making houses!  I can't wait to see these finished up!