Create Your Own

Greek Pottery Design

1. The next page will present you with six different pottery shapes (shown below). Choose the one you want to work with and click on it. You will see a larger picture of that pottery.

2. Using your browser, click on the larger picture and hold the mouse button until you are given the option to copy that image or download it to your desktop.

3. If you have enough memory in your computer to open another program, go ahead and open a paint document such as ClarisWorks paint, and copy the image into that document. If you are unable to work both programs at once, copy the picture onto a disk for later use.

4. Then procede to the design collections. You will see several small Greek designs that you can select to view in larger versions.

5. Copy the designs you want to use and paste them into your paint document, or download them to the desktop, disk, or scrapbook.

6. By using the cut, copy, and paste functions of your graphics program, you should be able to take bits and pieces from each of the designs you have chosen and add them into your pottery shape.

Below is an example of how this can be done.

First, copy a pottery outline shape and paste it into a graphic (paint) document. Resize it to fill the screen.

Then select parts of designs from the design collection page and paste them into the places you think they look best on your pottery design.

As new parts are added, you might want to resize, stretch, rotate, and flip the designs to fit them into the pottery outline in creative ways.	This finished project shows many designs added to the beginning pottery shape. It is now a new and unique Greek pottery design.