Asymmetrical Coiled Vessels

Ceramics I
Cleveland Heights High School

We studied different Cultures of Coiled vessels

Japanese Jomon Vessels

French Biot Rope Jars

East Asian Coil Throwing

Pueblo Potter Maria Marinez

and Modern Ceramic Artists in Ceramic Daily Online.

Students combined two silhouettes

to inspire an asymmetrical design

for their Coiled Vessel.

First Quarter Projects

Cultural Tile Study

Ceramics I 

Cleveland Heights High School 

We studied ancient Islamic and Spanish tiles,

Moroccan Tiles,

and  Roman tile work.

tiles in our school display case.

Zen-tangle Animals

9th Grade Art

Cleveland Heights High School

Students practice patterns

Final Collaborative Display
(with Ms. Skehan)

This Summer has been such a Joy at the Orange Art Center

I must say that this Summer I have had the most talented and patient students which made it such an enjoyable teaching season!  I am going to miss it at the Orange art Center, but cannot wait to teach at Heights High School in two short weeks!  Here are some of the highlights from this summer:

The Smallest Successful Bowl I have seen thrown on the wheel! 

Carved Model Cars

Bobble head Mouse

Watercolor Wreaths

Silhouette Printing

Nature Rubbings

Finding Frogs

Charcoal Shoe Portraits

Model Student Work

In the past few weeks I have been extremely impressed with my students hard-work and finished products at the Orange Art Center and Shaker Heights High School.  Here are just a few examples from the past few projects we have been working on.

Multi-media Kitty (K-2nd Drawing and Painting)

Symbolic Pinched Box ( New Directions)

Elephant Teapot (New Directions)

Magritte phone-apple (3-5th Drawing & Painting)

Sumi-e Ink Drawing (3-5th Drawing & Painting)

Volcano Island (High School Mixed-Media)

Tea Pot (Teen/Adult Ceramics)