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Ceramic Phone Holder with an Additional Function

This project involves students creating hand-built ceramic phone holder with an additional function.

Students will learn ceramic building techniques: wedging, attaching clay with the four s's, slab, coil, pinch, as well as, focusing on surface quality.

Ceramic Phone Holder has an Additional Function

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Amplifier plus Phone Holder
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Glasses Holder plus Phone Holder
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Pencil Holder plus Phone Holder

Ceramics is an Art Medium


Project Requirements

Holds Your Phone

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Phone fits and sculpture doesn't fall over when holding phone

Charging Cord Hole

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Make a hole in the bottom and the back for the charging cord. There should be space for the phone to be charging while in the sculpture. Don't make it too hard to plug in the phone.

Additional Function

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In addition to being a phone holder, the sculpture also does something else, like a pencil holder or sound amplifier.

Texture Added

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Carved textures or attached clay textures make the surface more interesting. Smooth is the default. Textures are added on smooth clay

Wedged Clay

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Wedging removes air bubbles from the clay to prevent the clay from blowing up in the kiln.

Scored & Slipped

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Scoring helps create more surface area between the two parts being connected. Slip helps join the two pieces like glue.

Right Size

Your sculpture should be BIGGER than the minimum sizes of 2" wide,  3" tall and 3" deep.

Name Carved

You should carve your name, your teacher's initial, and period number inside or on the bottom of your sculpture. No name on there? You might not get a grade for your work!

Rough Sketch

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Idea #1
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Idea #2
  • Side or 3/4 View and Front View
  • Phone Holder
  • Other Function (Amplifier, Pencil Holder, etc.)
  • Cord Hole
  • Added Clay
  • Texture
  • Name + Teacher Initial + Period Number

Sculpting Instructions


Step One

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WEDGING : Take 2 minutes to wedge your clay. Start by forming your clay into a ball. Then, with both hands on either side, push the clay in and down towards the wedging mat at the same time. Then, flip the clay and do it again. You should end up with a little pyramid.

Step Two

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MAKE A PINCH POT : Cut your wedge in half. Put half under a wet towel. Use the other half to make a pinch pot. The walls of the pinch pot should be no thinner than a 1/4" thick, but no fatter than 1/2" thick.

Step Three

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ADD BIG STUFF : Add Function Parts (Amplifier pictured). Remember to SCORE the parts you want to attach, add SLIP to the scoring, STICK them together, and SMOOTH out the attached parts.

Step Four

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CUT PHONE HOLDER SLOT : Cut Phone Holder Slot. Remember that clay shrinks a bit as it dries, so make the space for your phone a bit larger than your phone.

Step Five

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CORD HOLE : Cut a hole for the charging cord to exit out the back.

Step Six

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ADD SMALLER STUFF : Add the extra parts that will make your sculpture interesting to look at from all sides. Remember to Score, Slip, Stick, and Smooth any time you add clay.

Step Seven

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ADD TEXTURE : First smooth the surface of your sculpture with a damp sponge. Then, add a texture to make part of your sculpture more interesting. You can make impressions by pushing a tool into the clay in a repeating pattern. You can also add texture by adding small bits of clay in a pattern.

Step Eight

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CARVE NAME : On the inside or the bottom, carve your NAME, your teacher's initial and your period number. Example: Name R1

In-Class Demonstration Videos

New Supplies + Ceramic Project Description
Ceramic Demo - Helmet Sound Amplifier
Adding Texture to Helmet Demo
Ceramic Demo - Dinosaur Amplifier
Three Building Techniques: Pinch, Slab, Coil
Ceramics Demo - Phonograph
Helmet - Turn in Checklist
Dino Checklist Before Drying
Phonograph Turn in Checklist
Turning in your Bone Dry Clay
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Helmet Demo

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Dinosaur Demo

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Phonograph Demo

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Turning in your Bone Dry Clay

TURN IN YOUR SCULPTURE TO THE "READY TO BE FIRED TABLE" 
IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE BONE DRY - IT CAN BE LEATHER HARD.

Photos You Need to Have of Your Sculpture

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Right Side
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Front
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Back (cord hole visible)
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Top
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Left Side
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Name Carved into Sculpture

Painting Your Ceramic Sculpture

VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS
Period Zero
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Starting to Paint
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Painting Day 2
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Painting Day 3
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Painting Day 4
Finishing Painting
Photographing Ceramics
Period One
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Starting to Paint
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Painting Day 2
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Painting Day 3
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Painting Day 4
Period Two
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Starting to Paint
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Painting Day 2
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Painting Day 3
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Painting Day 4
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PAINTING YOUR SCULPTURE REQUIREMENTS
  • LIMITED COLOR PALETTE (3 Colors with 2+ values of each color)
  • PAINTED DETAILS (added details that weren't sculpted)
  • IN THE ROUND (all sides are equally interesting)
  • CUSTOM COLORS (mixed own colors, did not use out of bottle)
  • CRAFTSMANSHIP (take your time to get smooth lines)
  • UNITY (linked areas of the composition together with multiple details)
  • PHOTOS (colored paper background create contrast with sculpture)
  • 7 PHOTOS (front, front with phone and cord plugged in if possible, left view, back view, right view, top view, underneath view; all files labeled with view name and your name - ex: RossFront.jpg)

7 Photos of Finished Sculpture

1 - Ross - Front
2 - Ross - Right Side
3 - Ross Left 3/4
4 - Ross - Top
5 - Ross - Back
6 - Ross - Underside
7 - Ross - with Phone
1 - Ross - Front
2 - Ross - Right Side
3 - Ross - Left 3/4
4 - Ross - Back
5 - Ross - Top
6 - Ross - Underside
7 - Ross - with Phone

Tempera Color Charts

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M = Magenta, R = Red, O = Orange, Y = Yellow, G = Green, B = Blue, T = Turquoise, K = Black, W = White

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