Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Snowflake Stencil Plates
I am pretty OBSESSED with this project... Ceramics students created these stunning plates in class last week. I showed them how to create an intricate cut paper snowflake and we spent a period making those first. The next day, we rolled a clay slab to cut the plate from and pressed it into a paper plate to create a sloped lip. While the clay was moist, we pressed the paper snowflake onto the surface of the clay plate and underglazed three coats of a color on top. Then we peeled up the paper snowflake. After the plate air dried for a day, students used some plastic modeling tools to carefully scrape off any glaze that might have leaked under the paper stencil. Once the plates were bone dry, they were bisque fired, overglazed and fired again. Check out these beauties!:
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You're right. They are awesome! Thanks for sharing :-)
ReplyDeleteHey I'm really interested in teaching this project. Can you maybe explain the transfer of the image onto the clay plate to me? I'm a bit lost and unsure how to do this. Such a cool idea. Love it!
ReplyDeleteKids made paper snowflakes the first day. Next day they rolled fresh slabs and pressed them into paper plates. While the clay was damp, they laid their snowflake on it and glazed it right then (two coats of underglaze). After letting it set for a little bit, they used a needle tool and peeled up a corner of the snowflake and lifted it off. Not all of it came off in one piece so it wasn't that simple for some. In many cases, glaze went under the cutout- so once they all dried completely, those kids could use a needle tool to gently scratch the glaze off where they didn't want it before we overglazed and fired them.
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