Introducing students to relief sculpture is easy when you have a bunch of clay, a slab roller, and some carving tools. It was just a matter of having them come up with ideas, and decided how much to take away. Carving is a subtractive process and future ceramic projects will be an additive process, so there is yin and yang in my curriculum throughout the school year. Each student did some sketches. Rolled a slab, cut out the shape, and by the next day it was leather hard and ready to carve.
Once the pieces were fired and glazed, ribbons were tied through pre-made holes so that they could be hung on the wall. We had some trouble with our first glaze since the kiln didn't get hot enough.
