1) I am in 8th grade and am forecasting for highschool, and am looking at the electives and one of them is Ceramics 1. In the description it says Handbuilding techniques will include pinch, coil and slab methods. What does this mean? Also, I‘m not really good at art, but I want to get good. I‘m not looking to go into a career in art, but I think it looks like fun. 2) Is this class hard? 3) The Forecasting sheet is due tomorrow
If you take a ball of clay, push a thumb into it and then pinch around to thin it and form it - that is a pinch pot. If you roll lumps of clay out into ropes or snakes or coils, you can put them down round and round the edges and build up the walls of a pot, blending the coils together. If you use a roller to make flat slabs of clay of uniform thickness and cut shapes out with a knife, you can put the shapes or slabs together into vessels or sculptures by joining the edges in slab construction. No its not hard.
