islamic tiles 1

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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.



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#



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.



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



-&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:

islamic tiles 1

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