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.

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.