Slab+Built+Vessel



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=Reflection Criteria:=

You’ve spent a lot of time on. You’ve put your hard work, hearts and hopes into it. Now’s the time to share those moments with your viewers. You’ve made deliberate artistic choices to convey a message with you audience. Please explain your choices and how they help you to reflect your message of hope.

On your iWeb- please answer the following questions on your page titled Hope Vessel. You should already have your brainstorm sheet scanned and posted to you Hope Vessel page. Your Reflection will go underneath the brainstorm.


 * 1) Restate the criteria of the rubric. ( //Our challenge for this project was to...)//
 * 2) Tell me what your Hope was.
 * 3) Explain the artistic choices you made to help convey your message of Hope to your audience. In your response, include which Principles of Art you used and how they helped you to convey, (show or tell), your message.
 * 4) //(My hope was to stop Global Warming. In order to show this, I chose to make my vessel in the shape of a tree that was strong and healthy. On the surface of my vessel using the Principles of Art, variety and pattern, I created a design of many flowers that overlap each other and are intertwined by vines and crawling with industrious ants and bees. I wanted to create a vessel that was so full of life that it could combat all of the destruction that is happening around the world with clear cutting and careless growth. I plan on filling my vessel with beautiful wild flowers, twigs and grasses that I find each season.)//
 * 5) Explain, step by step how you built your Hope Vessel using the following vocabulary:
 * 6) Leather-hard, slip, score and coil, template, needle tool, gauge, sgrafitto, underglaze, smoothing
 * 7) As you explain each step- please tell me which you found to be the most challenging and which were the most fun.

After you’ve answered questions, have a classmate read your reflection and do a peer edit. As you peer edit your classmates reflection- be sure to be supportive but also helpful.

=Student Reflections:=



Healthy and Happy World Said Aram Our challenge for this porject was to create a vessel based on our hopes for the world. My hope was to have a healthy and happy life for me and for everyone else. I hope to help all the people who don't have food or money. My Hope Vessel is in the shape of a king. It has two holding hands that form a smiling mouth. At the bottom of my vessel is a hole that you can see through. To create my vessel I used the principle of art Movement by making everything lead to the middle. The spikes, hands and nose all draw your eyes to the middle of my vessel. I also used the principle Emphasis by creating a see through hole that takes most of your attention. I plan on filling my vesel with different coins from different countries.



Hope and Dreams Lucas Pumarejo For this art project, the goal of the class was to make a sculptural embodiment of a hope we had our our life, the world, or anyting else we hoped for. My hope was that someday I will become a famous drummer and that the music I make will inspire many other drummers to play better. The upward curve of my lines represents a flowing and changing beat, naturally changing direction, and flowing outward. Like the vessel, the lines start off with a strong base, like any good drum beat, changing and evolving into something new and different.



The Desirable Life Max Yu Our challenge for this project was to think about our hopes for the future and make a clay vessel with illustrations representing our hopes. My hope for this project was for me to have a relaxing life in the future with a happy family. I used the thin line tools to make my project because I needed thin lines for the small details. I think that the main principle shown throughout my work was balance. For example, on the relaxation scene there is an umbrella and the other derails on the right side. To balance that out, there is a small island with buildings on it. It took many steps for us to finish the project. First of all, you get the clay slabs and you used a template to cut the shape of your vessel out. After, we used two wooden sticks as guages to make the sides of the vessel. At this stage the vessel is leather-hard. We then used a needle tool to score the sides and used slip to connect the pieces. We used coils to fill in the cracks for a firm hold. After that, we smoothed out the sides and the surfaces. Then we applied two layers of underglaze. Once it dried we used the tools to sgraffito on the surfaces. I think the most challenging part was making the actual vessel because sometimes the sides were not proportional so it was very hard to align the sides. My favorite part was the sgraffito because I enjoy drawing and I represented my hopes clearly through the designs.

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