Clay+pinch+and+Coil+pots


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media type="youtube" key="H0tlPdtGzZA" width="560" height="315" Ernabella Designs year 7 2013 Flipchart: Rubric for marking pots. This term we will be exploring the work of the Jomon people which is the one of the oldest pottery traditions in the world and then comparing and constrasting their style and techniques to the [|Ernabella] Artists from South Australia. This is a more modern style but from the First Australians reflecting their hunting and gathering origins as the Indigenous South Australians in the Pitjantjatjara Lands. We will learn about both traditions and see examples of their work and then create our own Jomon inspired cord designs on pots and the Batik and inscribed patterns on the Ernabella pots knows as //wiraku walka "the walka belonging to the gathering dish".// media type="custom" key="22607964" Bridging the Gap project in Ernabella media type="custom" key="22607970"
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 * [[image:Scan-003.jpg width="227" height="320" caption="David M design"]] || [[image:Michele motifs repeated on pot.png width="400" height="280" caption="Michele's motifs repeated on a pot using You Doodle app"]] ||
 * __Term 3 and 4 2010__**

Simple Batik techniques that can be done in class or the art room. media type="custom" key="6530599" I plan to make some mud drums with some of the classes next term and here you can see some history of the [|African drums]that were brought to the UK via the slave trade. The British website would be very relevant to the year 6 topic on Ancient cultures in term 4.

My old [|teaching blog] with Indonesian Arts on one of the pages:


 * __Pinch and Coil pots 2009 Term 4.__**

Year 6's this term will be making clay pinch and coil pots. The pinch pots are quite simple and we will create a dish to contain sand for a [|Japanese Zen garden] for your desk at home. You can rake it when you are doing your homework to remain calm and focused! You can also make a little Buddha or monk to sit in it. I'll show you one I made last year.

6MS and 6EL painted their pots in week 5 and some of them show a lot of detail. See the pictures below:



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Dan Q added this item below in relation to his clay put which he made a design that told the Chinese Creation story so I asked him to put it on the wiki:


 * Chinese creation story**

In the beginning, the world had no heaven or earth. The universe was a black egg, in which Pan Ku slept. After 18,000 years of existing like this, Pan Ku awoke and the egg broke in two. The top part, which was light and clear, became heaven and the bottom, which was dense and dark, the earth. Thus, the concept of yin-yang, the two sides that made a whole.

Pan Ku was born larger than any man and with a hammer and chisel in hand. With these tools, he further separated the sky and the land. He was helped by four mythical creatures: tiger, phoenix, dragon, and tortoise. After another 18,000 years, he had built enough to assure the heaven and earth would never meet again.

When he died, he filled in the rest of the world. His breath created the wind and clouds. His flesh became soil, his bones rock, and his blood filled the rivers and seas. His limbs and body became the five major mountains in China. His hair became the stars in the sky. From his sweat came the rain to nourish the land. His eyes became the sun and the moon. And finally, his soul became all of the gods and demons of heaven and the underworld and one of those gods was Nuwa. Nu Wa became lonely and decided to make copies of herself from mud in a pool. The figures she created came to life and wandered off to populate the earth. After a while, Nu Wa realized that it would take too long to fill the earth with people if she made each one by hand. So she took a rope, dipped it into the mud, and flung the drops of mud in all directions. Each drop became a separate human being. The people Nu Wa created by hand became the rich and powerful people in the world; those she flung as drops from the rope became the poor and the weak. The water god Gong Gong had tried to overthrow the fire god Zhu Rong. When Gong Gong failed, he became angry and rammed Imperfect Mountain with his head. The mountain, which supported the heavens, crumbled, tearing a hole in the sky and causing the ends of the earth to give way. The disorder that followed included fires and floods. Selecting several stones from a river, Nu Wa shaped them to repair the hole in the sky. She also slew a giant tortoise and used its legs to support the heavens. Nu Wa's actions restored the order of the universe and saved the world from destruction.

Read more: [|Nu Wa - Myth Encyclopedia - mythology, god, story, legend, world, Chinese, life, people, fire] [|http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ni-Pa/Nu-Wa.html#ixzz0YPxcKKLN]

Read more: [|Nu Wa - Myth Encyclopedia - mythology, god, story, legend, world, Chinese, life, people, fire] [|http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ni-Pa/Nu-Wa.html#ixzz0YPxVvwOA]