1ST CLAY LESSON!

Hello everybody! Today (4th August), the first clay lesson. I'm so excited to share with you what I've learnt today! Firstly Mr Will showed us some clay work done by some other students.

Then he taught us how to cut/slice the clay.

Then taught us how to knead the clay (to get rid of the air bubbles) and score the clay.

Application of the clay slit after scoring is also necessary. 

All along, I thought that the thing used to fire the clay is called 'Oven' but it is called a 'Kiln'...my life was a lie!😂 I have also learnt the importance of scoring the clay if I want to join 2 pieces together so that they will be "locked" and not fall off. Not forgetting that I have to apply the clay slip after scoring and before combining the clay together.

We were told to make an imaginary clay creature, we all had to start of by making a hollow clay ball. Here are some pictures of me attempting.

scoring the clay

applying the clay slip

Do the same thing on both sides of the half ball. Then combine them together.

then I had to score the line too

then I used this thing to make the clay ball smooth

and this is the body of the creature I'm making

Sadly, I didn't manage to finish it because time was up. Then we just cleaned up the class and packed up.

hard working people...

That is all for today, thanks for reading and bye!