Elle and Lou: Ceramics

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Ceramic Owls Children's Art

Don't look now....

but our art class have been busy creating a parliament of owls

(isn't that a great collective noun?).

I actually prefer to call them ....

The Broody Bunch

(the owls, not my class)

They are so simple to make.

This broody bunch was completed by my class of 10 years olds,

however, my 6 year old made one just as easily!

My apologies for the quality of these photos,

but I wanted to show you how I displayed them.

I cut out a tree from black paper making sure to include a hole in the middle and lots of spooky branches. Then I attached the owls and tree to the boards with velcro spots.

These owls are found in many fantastic places on the net and I'm really not sure who began them- they look like something left over from the 70's school art scene to me

(I mean that in a good way).

All you need is a:

ball of clay

rolling pin /plastic cup/ dowel (to roll the clay

texta lid ( or anything to create texture)

One Crayola Short has a great owl tutorial to follow,

as does That Artist Woman- so check them out if you are interested.

We painted ours with glazes, but you could certainly use acrylics on air dried clay.

Alternatively, I'd love to try these with a polymer clay too and use vibrant fun colours.

I hope you give them a go...

we certainly had a hoot!