With two Chinese students in our middle school this year, it seemed like the ideal time to all learn something about Chinese Ming vases. These vases date back to the Ming dynasty, 1368, and are characteristically made of white porcelain with cobalt blue decoration. The shapes were quite specific, generally having a narrow neck and designs featuring fish, birds, floral motifs, vines and iconography. Using oil pastels covered with white acrylic paint, the students tried their hand at demonstrating their understanding of this art form by scratching designs into their rendition of large vase shapes that were then cut out and mounted on black paper.
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| Creating a stencil for the initial vase shape |
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| Filling in with blue oil pastel |
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| Tracing the stencil onto final paper |
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| Beginning to scratch in the images |
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| Blue images are beginning to emerge |
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| Lettering the name in Chinese characters |
Three finished works
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