Clay art lessons

This is a perfect slab lesson for artists will a little prior clay experience. How to use simple steps to create a clay animal face of your choice while applying slip and score to attach all clay pieces together. Perfect slab clay lesson for artists will a little prior clay experience.

A simple and brilliant idea to be realized at school with clay slabs: colored tiles imprinted with different shapes of pasta. Farfalle, penne, fusilli or spaghetti become interesting tools to creat…

Clay can be the best and worst thing to happen in an art room. It can be a magical and intense experience for both the students and the art teacher. Once students get over the messy aspect of clay, they are completely mesmerized by the tactile and time consuming process. The illusive kiln, the obsessive smoothing, the endless need to score and slip…. I LOVE …

Art lessons for kids ages 5-12 - fresh from the art room!

Animal pinch pots are a fun clay lesson for older kids and middle school students. Build a clay elephant with step-by-step instructions.

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Before reading this post, click here for a complete list of art supplies that you can use to create your own fantastic dessert sculptures (and links for ordering them). Our food art unit started two months ago when my students learned the geometry inherent in drawing cake slices, doughnuts and ice cream. Using my You Tube tutorials they were able to create a backdrop of paintings for a classroom bakery art instillation. Initially my middle school students created flat looking paintings with…

Ceramic bobble heads 2 parts. This is just after they have been fired and brought out of the kiln. The basic idea is to make a pinchpot for the head and add features to make it look like a face, or head. The base is the body, and the pinch pot balances atop the base. These will look neat finished with acrylic paint. Here is the link to a video with good directions.