This is my 6 inch tall honey pot. I glazed this project by using water colors to paint the bear and tree designs on the pot. I also used underglazes to add color to the places where I covered the project with clear glaze. In making this project, I practiced painting and creating art in a 2D space. The color and shapes on this honeypot help emphasize movement for the project overall. This project is overall meaningful because it reminds me of
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This is my teapot, which I am submitting for my multi wheel project as well as my closed form project. I glazed this project with clear glaze on the outside and mottled blue glaze on the interior. I also painted on the fish with watercolors before putting the glaze on. In making this project, I learned more about how to affix different pieces of clay together to create a different form. The form and the colors on this teapot create harmony within the project. This project is meaningful because I like fish, and its a pretty cool teapot.
This is my small, 2 inches tall, 2 and a half inches wide tea cup. I painted the walls of this cup with blue, green, and brown watercolor paint, and then covered it in clear glaze. With this teacup, I learned how watercolors interact with clay and glazes, and how best to mix the paint to get the best results on the finished project. I believe that the color, design, and form on this teacup tie the cup together in unity and harmony of the elements and it’s message. When looking at this teacup, I think of the serenity and peacefulness of nature, especially in the forests that are in the pacific northwest.
This bowl is 3 inches tall and 4 inches wide, and thrown with seamix and vashon red clays partially wedged together to create the swirls of different clays in the bowl. When I was glazing this bowl, I first painted on small details of porcelain slip along the lip and foot of the bowl, and then just dipped it in clear glaze. With this bowl, I learned more about how clays interact with each other, and how to carve away the surface of a project to show how the clay was moving inside of the walls of the bowl. I think that the texture I carved on the walls of the bowl and the contrast of the colors of the clay in this bowl unify this project around the ideas of movement, change, and synthesis of two things to become something greater. This project represents to me one of the times when I tried new ideas in my artwork, and was successful in carrying out that idea with some degree of unity and artistry in the finished project.
This bowl is 3 inches tall and 4 inches wide, which I threw using vashon red clay and then, after the bisque, painted on sworls with porcelain slip and then dipped in clear glaze and fired. With this bowl, I continued to develop my understanding of how clay can be manipulated to achieve certain effects, and how different types of clays need to be treated differently to get similar effects. I believe the light color of the porcelain slip lines on the bowl contrasts well with the bowls deep brown color, and creates dynamic movement within the project. When I look at this bowl, I am reminded of white clouds over dry desert land, and the importance of those two elements in clay and ceramic art.
These are two small, 2 in high and 3 in wide bowls that I made as a set. In making them, I learned more about how to throw projects with equal dimensions to achieve a unified effect. I glazed these bowls by painting on layers of black, nutmeg, and pink-a-dot glazes and then dipping them in clear glaze, which I believe is the mistake that caused the lighter nutmeg and pink glazes to run and not show in the final project. Regardless, the dark color from the base layer of black helps emphasize the simple but functional form of these bowls. I think the impact of these bowls comes from their simplicity and the small details of the black glaze’s border with the clay.
this is my groups 4 inch wide, 5 inch tall coil pot. It has eleven coils or layers, and we glazed it with part blue glaze and part metallic brown glaze. When working with the coils of this project, I learned more about how the amount of pressure clay can resist relates to its form. The space and form of the different coils work with the color of the glazes to create a sense of dynamic harmony in the project. This project makes me think about how differences can work together to create something new and interesting.
This was my small, 5in x 5in spherical bird feeder. I made this by throwing a circular closed form, and cutting three equidistant holes into the sides of it. I glazed it in light blue and scrap glaze, which unfortunately turned out much murkier than expected. I practiced making closes forms on the wheel, as well as altering projects when making this project. I think that the way I designed the form of the bird feeder adds emphasis to the function of the feeder. I made this project as a gift to my grandmother, so I like to think of it as a nice representation of my abilities being able to focus on creating something for a specific function.
This is my 7 inch tall pitcher, with a twisted handle. I glazed it with white glaze, and then splattered various blue and green glazes, which after firing created colorful runs down the pitcher. This project was a step into learning how to pull slimmer, smaller handles for me.This pitcher's unique form adds some contrast rather than unity to the projects overall impression. The subtle textures and colors of this pitcher are what make it reminiscient
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