Creating a Shoe Pattern for Making a Sculptural Shoe in Clay

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This video is a step by step guide for my students in how we make patterns for our shoes for the shoe project in Ceramics I. We will be using soft slabs and coils to create these dynamic sculptures.

For starters, I tell the kids to photograph their shoes from multiple angles to help them when it is covered. (If they have shoelaces, this would be great time to remove them. Then, we place the shoes in the plastic shoe covers I got from Amazon. Here is a link for something like the shoe covers I purchased. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...

After the covers were on, we covered any exposed area with a papertowel before we covered the form in masking tape. Once the tape has covered the shoe thoroughly, the students will draw the panel patterns on the tape, using the photographs they took as reference. Once the panels are drawn, then the kids cut apart the panels on the marker, being careful not to cut the shoe. Once the panels are cut, the kids trace the shapes onto copy paper, and decide if they would like it shrunk by a percentage.

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