Pinch Pot Animal

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Created by Kay Wagner, Ph.D., Edina Public
Schools, Edina, Minnesota Drawn images may be
used freely, fair use laws apply to all other
images
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Pinch Pot Animal
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Roll tennis ball sized clay into smooth ball
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Poke your thumb into the ball until you are about
1/2 from the bottom of the hole
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Squeeze your thumb against your fingers, thinning
out the walls of the hole to about 1/2 thick.
Turn the ball as you squeeze to make an even wall
throughout the entire pot
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This is what it would look like on the inside
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This is what it looks like from the out side
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Repeat the pinch pot process with the small ball
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Using a very small lump of clay roll a coil
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Form the coil into a ring around your index
finger blend the ends together
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Any time you attach one piece of clay to another,
follow these steps
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2. Slip is applied.
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3. Score both surfaces.
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4. Press together firmly.
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4. Press together firmly.
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5. Blend the seam.
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5. Blend the seam.
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Attach the ring of clay to the opening of the
small pinch pot.SlipScorepressblend.
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Fit the neck of the small pot into the opening of
the large pot. Adjust the size of the large pot
opening to fit.
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Fit the neck of the small pot into the opening of
the large pot. Adjust the size of the large pot
opening to fit.
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Remove the head from your clay pot ythbvc xz-
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All animals have a snout.
The circle shows the head shape you have now.
Next you will see how the snout changes the head
shape to look more like the animal
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Create a snout for your clay pot creature, start
with a small ball of clay
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Model the clay into the shape you want for the
snout
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Attach the snout to the head shape
Add slip to both shapes
Score both shapes
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Attach the snout to the head shape
Press parts firmly together
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Attach the snout to the head shape
Blend the seam line
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The mouths appear at different places on
thesnouts.
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Cut the mouth open
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Press or carve holes for the eyeballs
Form two equal clay balls for the eyeballs
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Fill the holes with slip
Press the eyeballs into the holes
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Make coils for eye lids
Add the coils over the eyes
Blend only the top of the lid
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Poke holes for the nostrils
or add a nose
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Add ears
and/or horns
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Now we will work on the bottom of the pot, which
will be the animals body
First remove the head and set it aside
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First we will shape the legs.
Think of the different types of animal legs
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Most animals have a hip shape that the leg is
attached to
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Most animals have a hip shape that the leg is
attached to
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The arms are attached directly to the body
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Most animals have a hip shape that the leg is
attached to
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Short fat tails can stick out
Long thin tails must lay against the body
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Place the head on the body, be sure that the neck
fits into theopening.
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Your sculpture is now ready to glaze
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Choose a few small areas to which you will add
color.
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Choose a few small areas to which you will add
color.