Line Relief Pottery Lesson

For this pottery project, you will create your own raised design.
A raised design in an artwork is called a ‘Relief’.
You will be using a Styrofoam plate for this project.

This ceramic lesson can be taught to all of Secondary.

This could be a 3 one-hour lesson:

1. Create your design and Styrofoam plate - the theme could be a pattern or link to another art task.
2. Build your pot and use the Styrofoam plate
3. Paint your final design with Watercolours or Acrylics.

Tips:
Try and limit the use of water in stage 2.
Press hard on the Styroplate to capture the design; it doesn’t matter if the Styrofoam plate breaks.
If you use air-dry clay, Acrylics might work better than Watercolours, as the water could ruin the pot.

Have fun!