So for starters, the reason there is a finger in this photo is that my dad broke the handle off of my beautiful mug. D: I was really upset as I spent a long time painting it! this mug is very little, it's more of a nightly tea sort of mug than a morning "give me ridiculous amounts of coffee" kind of mug. I had thrown it and had nicked the side of it with my nail, and then I had the idea to carve out the sides of it in lines. Then after it was bisqued I decided to paint them. I painted the side so that when looked straight on at the handle, they match up exactly with the lines on the body of the cup. In hindsight, I would have chosen another underglaze color, as my tree sort of looked like a blood-vessel in a way. :( However, other than that and the extra clear at the bottom, I am really pleased with this mug. So fun to paint! Really happy with this project.
This project is my multi-wheel project. I spent so many weeks on this teapot, I appropriately christened it "the teapot from hell." However, in the end, it was one of the most rewarding projects that I created this year, due to the amount of hard work and focus that I put into it. I also used this as one of my theme projects as I experimented with the blue and white color mixtures around the outside and lips of the project. The lid fit much better than my lidded project, however it isn't neccesarily watertight. However, it is a very functional teapot, and I made tea out of it often. Overall, very proud of this teapot! SO MUCH HARD WORK, but it totally paid off.
This bowl is one of the things I am the most proud of that I have made this year. The proportions of this bowl are so even and I am so proud of it. I have worked very hard to achieve an even lip, and this one worked out perfectly. This piece was for my theme project, as I mixed the glaze. It went into the kiln looking a little bit purple-y, and it came out with a similar sort of hue to the dominant blue color. There were little specks within the glaze that converged in the bottom of the project, creating the illusion of depth in an otherwise, wide and shallow bowl. The lip creates a section of threes, which is pleasing and balanced to the eyes. So pleased with this project! WOOHOO.
This project was my lidded project. It was very small, but petit. My mom has been using it for a sugar bowl. This was an adventure for me, as I do not have a lot of practice with lids. I learned a lot doing this project, as I didn't realize how much lids shrink! This was another piece for my theme, as I glazed it by putting dark blue and then white on top. This ran and mixed together in such an interesting way. This created the perception of length and emphasized the curvature of the base part, due to the drips running down the sides of the project. Overall, it was a successful effort at creating a lidded, and I learned a lot and later created a much more skilled lid for my teapot, thanks to this practice run. Over all, very pleased!
This project is one of my greater accomplishments thusfar in ceramics this year. This is the biggest bowl I have made yet and I love the lip on this project. It is just a choice project, but I am very fond of it. I used the shadow green glaze on this project, and the shininess of the glaze helps to define the shape of the bowl, as the light reflects on the curves of the edges. This glaze runs so much so towards the bottom it dripped a little unevenly, but overall I am quite pleased with this bowl. I hope to continue throwing with even more clay and to make even bigger things!
This bowl is part of my theme which has to do with color mixtures and combinations of glazes. For this one I mixed a random bucket of green glaze (which i later found out was shadow green and yellow and a little of black), and some more shadow green. I also mixed in a little bit of the turquoise and blue green that was left. Those were very watery when they were mixed in so I don't think they did much to contribute to the colors. However, this bowl has a lot of freckles of color within the different aspects of the glaze. These help create points of interest on the surface of the bowl which helps it to look deeper and rounder than it might actually be. This is the lightest bowl I have made so far, and is currently being used as the perfect morning yogurt bowl. It was bent a little in the process of before getting bisqued, as one of the TA's placed it on its lip on top of another off-centered project. However, I will continue to aim for this level of delicateness.
This is a firm slab project that I created a couple weeks into the semester. I originally had no idea what I intended to use if for or what direction it was going to take. Then this week I decided I finally ought to glaze it because it had been sitting in my locker for a couple months. I decided to use the shadow green because I love the luster of the glaze, and also I felt that the dark green color is reminiscent of woods and organic things, which works with the floral decoration on the side of it. I carved the back plane down so that the flower would stand higher and be in the foreground, and further accentuated it by wiping the glaze from it and leaving it in the cracks of the details. I sculpted the lip at Mrs. Heideman's suggestion, and I think that it makes for a much more interesting project. My mother will probably use this for flowers or something. If I could change anything, I would probably make the sides more neat and put more time into the details of it.
This project was a little vase that I made after breaking like three different projects. I finally gave up on the big clay as it was super wet that day and hard to handle, so I made this little guy. I was throwing with my friend Taylor afterschool, and I was going to just get rid of it, but she loved how little it was that she made me keep it. So I eventually brought it to full fruition for her sake and it turned out being super cute. My only wish would be that I had made a tiny lid for it...This I glazed with the same mixture that I glazed my super thin bowl with. it has different patches of darker colors and it makes it even more interesting in addition to the size.
I made all six of these projects in one day, and I was so proud of myself. I mixed different variations of the blue glaze with a little extra of the blue-green color in proportion to everything else. The different levels and thicknesses of the glazes created really interesting spots and thick places within the planes of the project. However, some of the glazes were a little watery when I combined them, which created an interesting thin layer of glaze on most of the projects. This allows for the throwing marks of the bowls to show through the glaze, which aids the shape of some of the bowls to appear to have more width and depth. The sea green color that it became was very unique and unlike other glaze combinations that I had seen before. The speckles in one of the glazes I used also showed through in very interesting ways underneath the darker blue colors that appear in streaks on some of the projects. Overall, I am very pleased with these projects, as even though none of them were required, I am growing increasingly in my ability to throw things quickly and effectively, and also fine tuning my artistic and creative skills.
These two vases were intended to be a part of the plate quartet. I glazed them all in the same way, with red under the orange color, and the glazing effect came out to be very interesting. lighter orange color looks drippy, which contributes to the roundness of the vases, as it creates a ledge that draws the eye to the roundest part. I personally like the lip of the taller vase compared to the shorter one, but I was trying to experiement with different styles. The glazing makes them look much different than other pieces I have previously made, and thus I am very partial to them. I plan to use them for pens and paper clips and the like. Over all I am greatly pleased with the way these turned out, and the way they go with the other two plates I made.
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