Textured Slab Construction

Add Texture By Using:- Coffee Grounds, Rice, or Sand.

- Wedge into clay before you make slabs.

Al Jaeger

Blip, 2006

Slab-built stoneware with gravel, sand, and coffee grounds.

Al Jaeger

Untitled, 2005

Slab-built porcelain and stoneware with gravel, sand, sawdust, and coffee grounds.

Al Jaeger

First Snow, Franconia Ridge, 2004

Slab-built stoneware and porcelain with sand, gravel, and coffee grounds.

Add a second texture to clay:- Use slab roller to create texture.

- Lay object on clay then roll through slab roller.

Objects You Can Use:

buttons, beads, marbles

aluminum foil

sponges

lace

leaves, sticks, tree bark, anything found in nature

puzzle pieces

Other Ways To Create Texture:

• the bottom of a pair of tennis shoes

• the bottom of a drinking glass to create perfect circles

• if object is too thick for the slab roller, you can create a slab then roll object on the clay

Now You Can Build Your Slab Piece:- Your piece must be 18” in. tall.

- Your piece must be organic. This means your piece must be an irregular shape, or one that might be might be found

in nature, not a geometric shape.

-Be creative, if you used leaves to texture your slab then cut your slabs into

different leaf shapes.

Examples of organic slab

constructed pieces:

Textured Slab Construction:• Objectives:

• Piece must be 18” inches tall.

• Piece must be organic.

• Slabs must have two textures: coffee grounds, rice, or sand and a texture of your choice.

• Piece must be well crafted.

• Grading:

• 5 drawings - 15 points

• template - 10 points

• craftsmanship - 25 points

• slabs have two textures - 25 points

• organic shape - 25 points

• This piece if due on November 15, 2010.