1. What makes a successful design?
5 minutes
Swap your sketchbooks
Look at the design produced last lesson.
What makes a successful design?
Leave some feedback on how what is successful and how they could improve their design

2. Learning Objectives You will… Develop your skills in ceramics.
Learn to give feedback and evaluate design work
Understand how to produce trials to test out ideas to be used in the final piece.
What I’m looking for…
Your ceramic trials should show a range of textures which could be used on the final relief piece.

3. Watch the teacher demonstrate how to produce your ceramic trials
5 minutes
Watch the teacher demonstrate how to produce your ceramic trials

4. 2 guide sticks of the same thickness Object with different textures
Collect:
A piece of sugar paper
A rolling pin
A water pot
A knife
2 guide sticks of the same thickness
Object with different textures
Clay
3 minutes

5. Roll out your clay between the guide sticks on the sugar paper.
40 minutes
Roll out your clay between the guide sticks on the sugar paper.
Score around the water pot 5 times with the knife to cut out 5 circles.
Make a small hole at the top of each circle to string your trials together after firing.
Now on each circle try out 2 different textures. Think about how you can use the objects creatively to make a range of patterns and textures
Score your initials on the back

6. Which textures have worked well? Which textures haven’t worked? Why?
5 minutes
Reflect on your trials.
Which textures have worked well?
Which textures haven’t worked? Why?
Which textures could be used on your final relief?
Learning Objectives
You will:
Learn about the work of the Suprematist artists.
Understand the concepts and themes of their work.
Create a Suprematist collage.