This is my five inch vase with small star details carved in and blue glaze under a layer of clear glaze to highlight the carvings. I also included blue glaze on the inside to help define the form of the vase. With this piece, I practiced carving details into greenware with the curved hook tool, learning how to angle it to get a desired shape. The space and color defining the star carvings emphasizes the shape of the stars and the overall effect of the pattern. This piece is important to me because it is my attempt to capture the whimsical spirit of books such as The Little Prince, and to explore the power of meaning presented in a more innocent tone.
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This is Jacob and I's group coil. We made it for Mr Mulligan, for the purpose of holding his motorcycling keys, gloves and helmet or whatever motorcycling paraphernalia he may have. Our coil pot is fairly stout and wide, and we glazed it using dark brown glaze in the crevices to highlight them, and then scrubbed off the excess and covered it with clear glaze. We also used orange glaze over the Harley Davidson decal. With this project, I learned how to carve out slab details to add to projects. The coils of this project create texture on the surface and the glaze along with this texture helps create emphasis on the different coils. This group coil was meaningful because it shows how me and Jacob could work together to create something neat for one of our favorite teachers.
This is my first bowl on the wheel. It is about 4 inches wide and 3 inches tall. I glazed it with scrap green on the outside, and with swirls of green, blue, and brown on the inside. With this project, I learned more about how to reglaze projects to get an improved final project, as I reglazed the outside of the bowl, using scrap green over a combination of brown and dark brown that had already been fired on. Line and value on the inside of the bowl create movement for the overall project. I find this project significant because of how it captures memories of cloudy pacific beaches from my childhood, in the dark greens and blues of the glaze.
This is my deep green and white four inch tall cylinder. I glazed it with the scrap green glaze on the upper half, with the thinner white glaze on the bottom to get some interesting runs of the green glaze. When I was making this project, I learned more about how I can use my hands to choke projects on the wheel to make them taller, rather than just pulling a wall up. The colors in the scrap green glaze and the value between the green and white help create contrast within this project. This project is important because it expresses the heaviness of the fall season here in the pacific northwest, deep greens of the pine trees and the overcast clouds and rain.
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