Welcome! My name is Heather Bunnell, and I am your child's ceramics or jewelry teacher. Three dimensional arts are my passion, and I love teaching your children the creative problem solving involved in making.
Please contact me with any questions or concerns you might have: [email protected]
You can also sign up to be on my 'Remind.com' list for your student's class. Email me for the enrollment instructions. This will enroll you in the same summative assessment reminders that I send your child.
Additionally, you can sign up for Powerschool email notifications for all of your child's classes.
I have an active Moodle. You do not need a login, select 'guest access' and you can view course overview and policies, project pictures and handouts, links to my Pinterest boards for projects, and links to homework, quiz review guides and any other handouts students receive in class.
We have already been hard at work in Art 2.
Click the student work button below to see the work that students have been making!
Please contact me with any questions or concerns you might have: [email protected]
You can also sign up to be on my 'Remind.com' list for your student's class. Email me for the enrollment instructions. This will enroll you in the same summative assessment reminders that I send your child.
Additionally, you can sign up for Powerschool email notifications for all of your child's classes.
I have an active Moodle. You do not need a login, select 'guest access' and you can view course overview and policies, project pictures and handouts, links to my Pinterest boards for projects, and links to homework, quiz review guides and any other handouts students receive in class.
We have already been hard at work in Art 2.
Click the student work button below to see the work that students have been making!
Jewelry I has completed a hemp bracelet project and has moved on to the tricky task of learning how to work with metal. This week we are focused on learning how to use the pliers to manipulate the metal. Students created individual design based off of ink and pinterest planning exercises, then proceeded to bend the wire match the drawings. The next steps will be doing three tests: wire to paper for each to test for accuracy, wire to wire to test for similarity of movement between the pair, and butteryfly to test for similarity of space between the pair. |
Ceramics I has been working on a clay monster. Each student practiced wedging, pinch, feeling and measuring the thickness of the clay, and attaching parts with score and slip. We learned how to use paddles, sureforms and scrub sponges to smooth the surface of the clay, as well as how to create additive and reductive textures. After adding lots of fun features, we then selected the important elements, and created contrast and emphasis by removing unintended shadows and texture.
Ceramics II students have been hard at work mastering the pottery wheel, and refreshing slab construction skills. It takes practice, but each student is mastering centering-the tricky task of stabilizing your core so that the clay conforms to your hands, making a tuna can in the center of the wheel. Next comes the challenge of teaching the hands the muscle memory of raising and thinning the wall, known as 'pulling'. You can check out a video demonstration by clicking here. We've also been working with altering slab forms as in this video demonstration here. Next, we'll continue developing our skills by trimming off excess material, by hand, and on the pottery wheel, and 'activate' our surfaces for glaze through the use of reductive texture.