This is my hand and wheel project. The vase is 5 inches tall, 4 inches wide at the lip, and 6 inches wide at its largest point in the body. The body of the vase features waves which I attached by hand, then I carved in movement lines and fish in the ‘water.’ There is a multitude of colors on my vase, including Sydney's blue, dark cobalt, dandelion, blue green, and clear. The clear is on the top of the vase, and all of the other colors are in the water. The inside was glazed in dark cobalt. The new skill that I used to make this was slipping and scoring to attach a hand project to a wheel project. The waves and the carved out parts create an interesting sense of space within my project because of all of the different levels of depth. There are both elements that are carved in and pop out. The space creates contrast in the piece because each layer is glazed with different colors, and the clear glaze contrasts from the blues of the water. Overall, I find this piece to be peaceful because of the denotation of water’s waves. I am very proud of this piece.
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This is my set of two plates, however, one was never recovered from the fire. Additionally, you can see the fire damage to this piece on the one rim. This plate is 8 inches wide, and features a double foot ring. I threw it with seamix and vashon orange, and glazed it with clear glaze. A new skill I learned to make this was how to form a double foot ring -- this is my first project with one. The mix of colors creates lines in the piece as the rings lead one’s eyes around the project. These lines combine to create a sense of movement in the piece. Overall, I think this project has a warm feeling because the colors remind me of a cookie.
This is my set of three projects, however, one was lost in the fire so now it is a set of two! These two cups are both four inches tall, and are approximately 3.5-4 inches wide at the lip. These cups were thrown with seamix and vashon orange, and the inside is glazed with black. A new skill I used was trying different techniques to form different shapes in my cups. My set has uniques lines due to the marbled nature of mixing two distinctly different clays. I think these lines create a sense of movement in the piece as they tend to lead one’s eyes around the cups. The lines and the movement combine to create a feeling of pride because I was able to combine several different techniques and elements to create a simple set.
This is the project that I made out of paper clay. I intend for this to be a lantern for a tea light, and I expect that the project will allow the candle light to be projected in an interesting way. My project is 5 inches tall, and 4 inches at the base of the project. I used pinching and coiling to make the pieces and attach them, and I added slip on top to make sure that the connections are secure. My project is 3-D and encompasses a lot of negative space. I think that this project will fit its function very well. I am excited to see this project next week!
Out of all of my projects this semester, the only two that I have not started were the hand and wheel and the theme project. I wanted my theme to be color blends because I have been experimenting with different clay colors and glaze colors. For my hand and wheel I wanted to make a lidded pot, with the hand part being a unique handle.
Below are some pictures of projects that were in progress. For my set of three cups, I had one in the glaze kiln and one in the bisque kiln. The third cup was on the bisque cart. These cups were a mix of seamix and vashon orange. I glazed it with clear on the outside and black on the inside -- all of the cups were of varying sizes. The other project that was in progress was the set of two plates. These plates were also vashon orange and seamix, also glazed with clear. The plate shown below has a double foot ring and was in the glaze kiln. The second plate was in a bag in a cabinet, so I am not sure what will happen to it. All of my finished projects are on my blog below. This is my choice #1 project. I chose to make a plate. My plate is 6.5 inches wide, and made of vashon white clay. It features dark cobalt, sydney blue, and white glazes. A new skill I used to make this was dipping techniques when glazing -- I would dip the plate at certain angles to get the sharp lines between colors that you can see. The places where the glazes blend, however, create a unique value as my plate has colors ranging from a very deep blue and gradually lightens to light blue -- then finally jumping to white. The value creates movement in my plate as well as the color changes guide ones’ eyes around the plate, in addition I like how the concentric circles on the base of my plate guide your eye’s out to the lip of the plate as well. This gives me a feeling of creativity because I find the plate to be abstract, and it makes me feel like an artist.
This is my extra soup bowl. It is 3 inches tall and 6 inches wide. It is made of vashon white clay and is glazed with clear, white, and tomato red. A new skill I used for this project was using a pipette to glaze. I like the lines that the glaze creates on the walls of the bowl where I dripped red and white glazes. I think that these lines create unique movement on the bowl because they lead your eyes down the bowl, starting from the lip. Overall, the movement and the lines create a happy mood when I look at this project because red is a warm color that is connotated with happiness, and because soup makes me happy.
This is my very tall project. I made a vase. It is 6 inches tall, and 3 inches at the base, 4 inches in the middle, and 4.5 inches tall at the lip. It has a unique shape the varies in widths as the eye travels up the project. I glazed this with a layered mix of sydney’s blue and white. A new skill I used on this project was trimming with a #7 tool. The varying width of my vase creates a unique form -- however I think that my glazing creates unity within the piece. I chose to glaze with only one color so that the vase was not overly busy. I believe that the form and the unity creates the idea of an ocean wave because the form waves in and out while the blue appears uniform but actually is composed of different shades upon closer inspection.
SThis is my large bowl #2. It is 5 inches tall and 6.5 inches wide. This features a smooth lip, and is glazed in dark cobalt, sydney blue, and white. A new skill I used for this project was trimming the base with a stick tool before stringing it, because this is something I had not done properly before. The main art element that I used was color, because I was tried using different color layers to add depth to the walls of the bowl. These colors combine to create a unique contrast where the colors mix, and where they touch but do not meet. This is shown in the pictures below. These colors creates a flowing feeling because of the way the other glazes mixed with the dark cobalt and they patterns they created when running in the kiln. Something I would like to try next time that the glaze runs is to use the grinder, because that would have been helpful to know for this project.
This is my large bowl #1. It is 4.5 inches tall and 5 inches wide. My bowl features a very flat base on the inside, and it glazed with metallic brown and shadow green. A new skill
I used for this project was using the pin tool to trim the lip, and then compressing the lip to give the bowl a definite end. My favorite aspect of this bowl is the use of color on the walls -- I have found that depending on how light reflects off the bowl it either looks more green or more brown -- and the shades of these colors complement each other rather well. These two colors create a sense of balance throughout my piece, because of the way that they work together to make the piece very uniform. For me, the colors and balance creates a feeling of success, because I have struggled with making bowls in the past, and I believe that this is my best bowl thus far. |
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