The document provides instructions for creating textured slab construction pieces in ceramics class. Students are told to add textures like coffee grounds or sand to clay slabs and also use objects like buttons or leaves to create additional textures when rolling out the slabs. The finished piece must be at least 18 inches tall, irregularly shaped like something found in nature, and contain slabs with two different textures. Guidelines are provided for grading the assignment which is due on November 15, 2010.

1. Textured Slab Construction

2. Add Texture By Using:
- Coffee Grounds, Rice, or Sand.
- Wedge into clay before you make
slabs.

3. Al Jaeger
• Blip, 2006
Slab-built stoneware with
gravel, sand, and coffee
grounds.

4. Al Jaeger
• Untitled, 2005
Slab-built porcelain and
stoneware with gravel, sand,
sawdust, and coffee grounds.

5. Al Jaeger
First Snow, Franconia
Ridge, 2004
• Slab-built stoneware and
porcelain with sand, gravel,
and coffee grounds.

6. Add a second texture to clay:
- Use slab roller to create texture.
- Lay object on clay then roll through slab
roller.

7. Objects You Can Use:
• buttons, beads, marbles
• aluminum foil
sponges
• lace
• leaves, sticks, tree bark, anything
found in nature
• puzzle pieces

8. Other Ways To Create
Texture:
• the bottom of a pair of tennis
shoes
• the bottom of a drinking
glass to create perfect circles
• if object is too thick for the
slab roller, you can create a
slab then roll object on the
clay

9. Now You Can Build Your Slab Piece:
- Your piece must be 18” in. tall.
- Your piece must be organic. This means your piece must
be an irregular shape, or one that might be might be
found in nature, not a geometric shape.
- Your piece must be organic. This means your piece must
be an irregular shape, or one that might be might be
found in nature, not a geometric shape.
- Your piece must be organic. This means your piece must

10. -Be creative, if you used leaves to
texture your slab then cut your slabs
into different leaf shapes.

11. Examples of organic slab
constructed pieces:

13. Textured Slab
Construction:
• Objectives:
• Piece must be 18” inches tall.
• Piece must be organic.
• Slabs must have two textures: coffee grounds, rice, or sand and a texture of your choice.
• Piece must be well crafted.
• Grading:
• 5 drawings - 15 points
• template - 10 points
• craftsmanship - 25 points
• slabs have two textures - 25 points
• organic shape - 25 points
• This piece if due on November 15, 2010.