1. Ceramics Coil and Slab Methods

2. There are 3 main hand building techniques for making 3D ceramic forms (pots). These are the pinch, coil and slab techniques. Since ancient times these techniques have been used to create large, imaginative and exciting vessels or pots. Until quite recently they have usually been functional but now they are made as decorative works of art. Many of the potters and artists who make these pots have become well known and their work is collected and displayed in galleries, much the same as paintings and sculpture.

3. Assignment For this project you will research the work of a culture, eg the work of Chinese, African, Greek, Native American, Nigerian, Roman or other pottery. Notice what techniques are used, how large the pots are, where they were made, were they glazed, do they have patterns on them, what techniques were used to create the pattern? Have the pots been made for a particular reason, are they just decorative, or do they have a message - is the artist trying to say something? When you have gathered all this information, put it all together in an interesting way, along with some illustrations, in your sketchbook – remember presentation is important. Using the resources you have found, design a coil pot of your own that reflects the essential design qualities of the culture you have selected. Draw 3 proposed vessels in your sketchbook. Keep the drawing in front of you as you work on your vessel.

4. Coil Pots

5. Building a coil pot

11. Nigerian stoneware coil pot decorated with a traditional Nigerian incised pattern

12. African incised vase

13. African - Niger Delta

14. African Storage Jar

15. Japanese Ritual Vessel

16. Egyptian Storage Jar

17. Unglazed earthenware jar decorated with darker slip Egyptian, about 3300 BC.

18. Chinese Hill Jar

19. Chinese Spirit Jars

20. Tang Dynasty - China

21. Unglazed earthenware jar decorated with a pattern of green and brown slip. Coil pot. North west China. About 2000 – 1500 BC

22. Roman Storage Vessel

23. Unglazed earthenware jar. Part thrown, part coil pot. Applied decoration. About 1450-1400 BC. Knossos, Crete.

24. Greek Amphoras

25. Andalusian Amphora

26. Acoma Vessel

27. Acoma vessel

29. Contemporary Acoma decorative techniques

30. Hopi

32. Joy Navesie Hopi Potter

33. Santa Clara Pueblo Carved Decoration

34. Santa Clara Pueblo

35. Contemporary sculpture using coil method - Derrick Wilshaw

36. Derrick Wilshaw. Large slab and coil stoneware pot 1967

37. Grayson Perry ‘Everything Else in the Room is Rubbish.’ Coil built with black slip, applied and overglaze decoration.

38. Grayson Perry ‘Two Children Born on the Same Day.’ Earthenware coil pot, sgraffito, applied decoration, photographic transfers, copper oxide. 1996

39. Slab Construction

40. Fiona Hannon. Slab built lamp. 2007

41. Ken Eastman. ‘Still Life With Seven Forms.’ Slab built and painted.. 19 x 23 48 cm. 1997

42. Stoneware slab pots. 20 th century

43. David Faithful. Lidded Pot. Slab buit. 1970’s

44. Shoji Hamada. ‘Vase’ Japan 1938

45. Toini Muona. ‘Chamotte Vase’ Finland 20 th century

46. Steve Irvine. ‘Ceramic Pinhole Camera.’ 2007

47. Kazuo Yaqi. ‘Walking’ Japan

48. Building a slab pot

50. Slab pots.

52. Lisa Pritchard

53. Slab Houses

54. Chickadee birdhouse

55. New England architecture

56. Temples GreekRoman

57. Cottages Irish cottageScottish cottage

58. Cottages CotswoldThatched roof

59. Cottages Key WestVictorian

60. Huts AfricanThai

61. Chinese House

62. Chris Theiss. ‘On the Bridge.’ Slab and coil work with sgraffito. 1989