Recently in art class, we've been working on a new project. Its possibly one of my favorites –and the most difficult, so far. Ceramics. So for the past couple weeks I have been rolling and patting and marking slabs of dark gray colored clay, and somehow creating it into (hopefully) beautiful cups, bowls, plates, and platters. So how do we do this? First we roll out a slab of clay with a rolling pin (like making cookies, but harder). Then we drape it across a plaster form of either a bowl or plate, and form it to the mold. Cut of the exess, dry the clay, and take it off the mold. Voila! You have a half-finished product. Then you fire it up in an oven (it really is like making cookies!), and paint it with a colorful glaze of your choosing. The possibilities are endless. Our shelves are already piling up with hundreds of artistic and imaginative creations! And for a good cause too. Next year, all these will be served with soup at our school for anyone to have, and all the money send to a charity for the homeless. And it makes me glad to realize that doing something that I love can actually help someone! It's pretty cool actually.
