Clay Pendant (TEXTURE) project

"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting
 up and taking action."

Honore de Balzac   May 20, 1799

So I went out and bought the clay, hauled it up to my room on the second floor, cut it up, demonstrated various ways to texture the clay to arrive at a pleasing composition, helped the students achieve some very nice pendants, packed them all up carefully and hauled them home where they now sit to dry.  I will then load them up in the kiln, pay for the electricity to fire them, haul them back to school on Monday, have the students paint them with watercolor, and have them cover them with gloss transparent medium.  Once they are dry, I will give each student a piece of lace to attach to the pendant so they can be worn.

Doe EVERY art teacher do stuff like this?  I don't know.  I DO know, however, that when I do things like I just described, it bothers me a WHOLE LOT when I get a text from the teacher with whom I share the classroom and who teaches air brush that one of my students crammed clay down one of his air receptacles and he had to spend a lot of time cleaning out.  Not to mention the danger of having this act possibly injure one of his students because the line is under 70 pounds of pressure.  

Here are some pictures of the pendants drying out in my studio.  I'll fire them tomorrow over night so they will be ready by Monday morning.