Studio 605: Schubert

Clay candle lantern

Clay Lantern

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Clay rainstick by Christian Echeverria

Clay rainstick by Areli Tovar

Clay whistles

Clay candle lantern opened to show seat for votive candle

Clay candle lantern

Mundane to Sublime
Students use watercolor glazing technique to create "sublime" 
compositions of everyday mundane articles.

Lessons in Landscape Painting

Students in Adv. Art Concepts are learning the essentials of landscape painting like, foreground, middle ground, background, overlapping, and scale. The method for introducing these concepts is to create tiny landscapes in Altoid tins and small boxes.

Ceramics

 

Students have been exploring the possibilities of slab construction. Stiff slabs, requiring careful control of moisture , were used to create clay bottles. 
Soft slabs and paper armatures were used to create clay cars inspired by the U.C. Davis "funk arts" movement.

Funk Art Movement

Where Was Funk Art Created? The movement got its start in the San Francisco Bay area, specifically at the University of California, Davis. In fact, many of the artists who participated in Funk Art were on the studio art faculty.

Stiff Slab Box wit keyed lid

Double pinchpot pumpkin with stem lid

Tree-Owl with detachable bobble-head

Excise carved stiff slab box

Students explore different handbuilding methods. Pictured below are traditional and free form coil pots.

Free form coil pot under construction

Double pinch pot rattle. This pot is constructed with two hemispheres and has clay beads inserted to create sound

Traditional coil pot under construction

Advanced Ceramics students were challenged to create an imaginary creature constructed with double 'pinch pots'. Each segment in the caterpillar created by Bryan Lazoya is actually a hollow pot made of two joined pinch pots The ladle was made with coils wound and woven together on a potter's wheel

Bryan Lazoya

Double pinch pot rattles

Ivan poses for a trick photo

Advanced Art Concepts

Using Values
Students explore how use of the correct values (light and dark tones) to enhance 3D appearance in their drawings.
Students practice both pencil shading and cross hatching. 

Students construct paper still life models, then draw the white on white shadows to create abstract designs. This exercise sharpens powers of observation and pencil shading skills.