A variety of birds have been visiting the Lincolnville Kindergarten Playground. Community Artist, Debbie Qadri has been commissioned to help make a garden area to celebrate these birds. The children of the kindergarten will be making ceramic features for a birdbath, totem poles and pavers and the artist Debbie, will put it together to create a garden area that invites the birds, and celebrates their presence.
Friday, July 8, 2011
making the ceramic footprints for the paving stones
Here are the children rolling out the clay ready for their footprint. Their foot is then traced and the shape cut out. Then the children decorate it using coloured underglazes. The clay feet will be fired and then glazed and fired a second time. Then they will be ready to be glued to pavers to decorate their garden and play area. The gaps between the ceramic feet will be decorated using mosaiced tiles.
As I am writing this, the feet are actually in their first firing in the kiln (the bisque firing). I will be pulling them out tomorrow and then applying the glaze to them, ready for their second firing.
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can't wait to see them when they are finished.
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