Pinched pots
With a tribal design
Gently insert thumb into center of clay
Slowly Pinch pot & rotate
Make Consistent (even) walls
Using underglaze glaze (paint) your piece
onto either:
Greenwareor
Bisque
Greenware
• Clay objects that have dried but have not yet been fired
Bisque
•Ceramic pottery that has been fired but not glazed
Underglaze•Use underglaze for all detailed
•paintings
• letterings
Under glaze
• Frit contains silica which is one of the main ingredients in glaze.
• silica causes the underglaze to "melt”
Graded on:• Consistent walls
• Uniqueness
• Tribal design (repetition)
• Professionalism
• Written statement: TBD
The Anasazi tribe• located in the Four Corners
region • New Mexico • Colorado• Utah• Arizona
Anasazi home Mesa Verde, CO
Pictograph (found on the cave walls)
a graphic symbol or picture representing a word or idea
Anasazi existed around two thousand years ago
• thought to be the ancestors of modern Indian tribes like the Hopi, the Zuni and the Pueblo
Most Anasazi pots were made with round rather than flat
bottoms.
• The pots were made from sandstone and shale clay, and covered in beautiful black or red geometric designs.
Firing• Pots were fired in a pit
• Charcoal, bones and animal fat feed the fuel
• The colors are carefully painted on with "brushes" made from the yucca plant.