He created a pot… painted it based on digital imagery created on a pottery app…. He still wanted to work with some digital imagery on its flat side. However, Drew was not finished with the pot he had created by hand. The tiny pots arrived about a week later in a crafted wooden box. Sure enough, the app developer is now offering an option to send pots online to a 3D printer. So you can create the pot on screen, in the app, and send it to a printer digitally, pay with a credit card, and the 3D object will come back to you in a week or so.
#Lets create pottery sculpteo update
P., did you get the update yet? Did you see the print feature?” When I asked him if I could take these photos, Drew, in return, asked, “Hey, Ms. This was the first time I’d ever seen a student working backwards from a pot created virtually. Intriguingly, though, Drew was working from a design he had created on the pottery app. It’s not uncommon to see a student using imagery from his smartphone – it’s happening a lot these days. He was working from an image on his phone.
A few months ago, I noticed that Drew was working on this piece for an upcoming exhibit at another school, themed on Africa. She is much better at throwing virtual pots – using delicate motions of her fingertips and brushes she purchases with ‘coins’ earned from selling virtual work at auctions – than I will probably ever be at making or selling the real thing.Ĭharlotte is not the only young person I know who is experimenting with virtual tools for ceramics. The pots she has been selling with such success were made on the Let’s Create Pottery iPad app, which will entertain her for however long she has access to the device. She has never thrown a pot, but you should see the fairy bathtubs she can pinch out of the bags of clay I leave in her parents’ shed when I visit.
Take heed of Charlotte’s sage wisdom:Ĭontext: Charlotte is seven. When she started talking, I politely interrupted her to ask if I could take notes. Her pottery was selling much better than my own, and I asked about her secrets. Recently, my friend Charlotte gave me some advice. This essay was published at ALT/Space, a publication of Teaching Artist Journal.
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