Art Majors have the privilege of seeing me everyday and working on a piece throughout the week. This week we began discussing shade and tint. I tried to connect that when we are in the shade it is darker, therefore when we shade a color we want to make it darker by adding black. We began by painting their entire 12 x 18 white paper with a tinted color of their choice. Day two we added trees or a tree with the same color but now a shaded version.
The last step was to add snowflakes using the original color.
Here are a few completed pictures:
Hey Brannan!
ReplyDeleteOkay, the kiln....
I know that at least in my kiln (where there is a down-draft ventilation system) it would not be a good idea to put a shelf on the bottom on the kiln. But I actually don't think you should do it no matter what kind of ventilation system you have.
If the shelf is touching the kiln floor then it is going to heat up differently than the shelves that are placed above it that aren't resting on a solid surface. Instead I would put tiny posts at the bottom (like 1/2in posts) so that air can flow underneath the shelf and heat at the same pace as the shelves above it. I am sure the same applies for placing pots directly on the kiln floor. Because the floor of the kiln will heat differently than the shelves above it. Plus if you think about it, if glaze were to accidentally get on the kiln floor, uh-oh! That would be no good.
I am not expert either! I am sure you will grow to love your electric kiln. I have no doubt!