First time on the Potter's Wheel

When I walked into the door to Enrich, Katie said "Are you excited about the clay today Madison?". And I said "Yes". I had NO idea what she was talking about.

When it was time to do affective, Katie told everyone but the clay kids: Briana, Samantha and I, to start on their Affective. I remembered that Marie (the person that was coming to Enrich to teach the clay kids stuff on the wheel) was coming in.

When we went over to the shed, I was wondering what a potter's wheel looked like. I thought it was a big black like plate on top of a spinning cylinder. But no, it didn't look anything like that.

While Marie was making a bowl, she talked us through it. She told us all the tips and steps.
Of course we all wanted a turn on the wheel first, so Marie made us pull a number out of the hat. I was number three, which meant I had to go last.

When I hopped onto the wheel I had to make it spin flat out and throw the little ball of clay into the middle of the spinning plate shaped thing. After that, I had to make the piece of clay turn into a tall cone. To do this I had to hold my hands together like a tunnel and move them up around the clay slowly. At first I wasn't really good at it but now I've got the hang of that. Next we had to push the clay down until it looks like a ball of clay with an almost flat surface, while the wheel was spinning. It sounds like it's really easy, when really it's not.

After a couple more steps I was up to the fun part, shaping the clay into the shape of a bowl. To do this I had to get a little sponge, hold my right hand on the outside of the clay, and with my other hand on the inside of the clay bowl I pushed the sponge outwards.

I was finally finished. After I'd finished my first one I made a second one.

I like pottering on the Potters Wheel. It's fun.

My favourite art: Masking Tape Painting!

 Finally. It was time to do art with Katie. In the last few weeks the whole class at Enrich has been doing Teacher-led workshops. A Teacher-led workshop is when you go to a workshop and get taught by a teacher in a little group. Also, in the last few weeks we have been learning new types of art. Like: drip painting, masking tape painting and impressionist. On the last week of the Teacher-led workshops, Katie gave us the choice of doing a: masking tape painting, drip painting or impressionist painting. Everybody in the art group chose to a masking tape painting because it's so fun.

As you can see, in my picture I have used the four colours: yellow, blue, red and green.

This is my group painting our masking tape paintings.

This is me and my second masking tape painting.

My Mask

Hello everybody!

Today for passion time I did clay again. First Darryn gave us a little lesson on how to score two pieces of clay together. You have to score (scratch little marks) on the piece of clay you want to join onto the bigger piece of clay. You also need to score the piece of clay you are attaching it to. After that, we started to make a mask. We made a mask because we can practice scoring.

In the end I thought that my mask looked quite cool. (For someone that hasn't made a mask before).

This is my mask:

My Bunny!

Hi!

Today when we did Passion Time/Talent Development I couldn't think of anything to make with my clay, so I thought and thought and thought. I thought of making some plates. I thought of making a snail then I decided to make a bunny. It was confusing 
to make because I had to
remake the feet like twenty 
times, AND I forgot what a
bunny looked like. 

This is what I want it to look 
like:

Bye, see you next time!

Clay time

Hi everybody!

Today was a little different from the rest for two things. 1. I had a half day because I had to go to a choir practice. And you'll have to find out what the other difference is. 

When it was time for Passion time/ Talent Development, when I looked at my lino prints they were finished. So instead of making another lino print I started working with clay. The only thing that I knew how to make was a bowl. With the bowl I made a lid, so you can put things in it and cover it up. I also made a jug. The jug didn't turn out so good though. But I thought that it looked cool for a beginner like me. I haven't made much things with clay so I hadn't had much experience. Here's what the jug and bowl look like:

Bowl

Jug

Bye. See you next time!

Ink and Fingerprints...

Hi Everyone! 

Today we had our last rotation with the teachers. The rotations were all about patterns.

Instead of learning about migration we learnt about fingerprints. But first of all here's some information about migration. Migration is when a group of animals or people travel somewhere to look for a better life, safety, land, or food. We have learnt that there is a lot of migration happening up in the Middle East I think. They have been going on boats to Australia. Why would they go to Australia you may ask? Well, that's an easy question to answer, it's because Australia isn't very far away.  

I should start talking about what I did TODAY. Here it is....

We first had to print our fingerprints by using ink. After we had gotten them perfect we got out a dinoscope and looked at our fingerprints. I also looked at my scabs. They didn't look very pretty. And also freckles look a bit disgusting. Look at this picture. 

Doesn't it look a bit disgusting?

And did you know that none of your finger lines on your fingertips are the same. Well, you wouldn't really know though. It's not like somebody's going to go all around the world and look at every single person's fingerprints on their fingertips to see if they're the same. 

Bye, see you next time!

Chisel Chisel Chisel.

Chisel, chisel, chiseling. Thats right I had to chisel out a lot of my Lino print. The WHOLE THING! Nah, just kidding. But I did have to chisel out a lot of my lino print. All the others were printing their lino print. Which SUCKED! Although it was kind of fun.

I finally got up to printing. I was very far behind from everyone else because I was only up to my test print. A test is well, a print that is a test. Not an exam test thing though. By then EVERYONE (except me) was up to their over print. An over print is a print that has printed on top of another print. Sounds confusing but it's not.
I'm still not up to my over print.
Bye, for now.