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Islamic ceramic tiles
Lesson aims:
• To learn about pattern and colour inIslamic art.
•
To learn basic clay skills.
Lesson objectives:• To decorate (and paint) a ceramic tile.
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Some points to thinkabout when making
your tiles:
• Before starting, take aclose look at the patternyou hae designed in
your sketchbook. • !hich techni"ue should
you use for decoratingyour tile# (e.g. stamps,
scratching into surface,relief work)
• !hich colours shouldyou use# !here should
you place each colour#
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Tile$making process
%. & paper template of the tile is placed on top of theclay. The template is cut out of the clay using a knife
and a ruler.
This allows the artist to create precise regularshapes.
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here are seeral di'erent methods of decorating your tile:
%. Scratching into the tilewith a ceramic tool.
. Scratching into the tile witha ruler.
. *sing e+tra clay to create a relief pattern.
. *sing one of the stamps.
!ill you use one method on your tile, or a mi+ture of all fou
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-&nd dont forget about adding colour/
*se the ceramic gla0es to paint colour on your tiles.1nce your tile has been painted, it is ready to be 2red inthe kiln. 3ood luck/
4+amples of colourschemes in Islamicart: