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Electric Kiln Firing Below is a picture of an electric kiln as it reaches Cone 06. Cone 06 is what students' clay and pottery is fired to, which is around 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Wow! That is much hotter than your oven at home can cook food at. The chart on the right shows the difference between various cones while firing ceramics.
Artwork by 7th Grader Alex Sesker
Students will learn about clay terms, stages of clay, and how to hand build using both coil, slab and wheel techniques.
Mug by 7th Grader Costner Pruess
POSITIVE/ NEGATIVE ART Students used natural forms as a starting point to make cut out card templates.
They drew around these templates to create regular or irregular repeating patterns. Students were encouraged to draw shapes that touched without overlapping.
Students had to look for the negative spaces created as a result. These were completed with black felt-pen. Students looked at the resulting relationships between the positive and negative shapes.
COLOR, SHAPE, PATTERN Students used their card templates from positive shape and negative space to create a second design to fill a regular 8x11.5 sheet of paper. This time, they used blended color to complete the positive shapes, focusing on tertiary hot and cold or opposite colors.
The negative spaces were completed using a pair of complementary colors to create a linear pattern. Students were encouraged to look back at a previous work on Hundertwasser for ideas regarding their use of color and line.