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.
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May 2012
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