Unpredictability and chance have always been facinating concepts to me. Throughout this semester of ceramics, I have reallly experimented with these ideas throughout my theme work. My theme deals with color combinations and glaze mixtures, which speaks to the element of surprise and hope that comes with each project put into the kiln. It has been truly interesting to recognize the shapes of my projects as they come out of the glaze kiln, but not the glaze and to be pleasantly surprised in many cases by the outcomes.
I made various projects involving this theme this semester. Many of them are bowls and I have made a few vases, a plate, a multi wheel combination vase, and a teapot. Mostly I wasn't really experimenting with shapes and different projects as much in the beginning as I was centered on playing around with colors and combinations of such. I decided eventually that I wanted to focus on colors and how the glazing and different combinations changed the image of the projects. As I went along, I began to realize how certain shapes really benefitted from the color combinations and continued along in that direction.
I made these by spinning on the wheel. Only one was a hand and wheel project, and my teapot was both. I created this theme by combining different glazes in varying proportions. Most of the ones that I experimented with were in the blue color family and range, as most of the glazes that we tend to carry at Mt. Si are different shades of blue, aqua, teal, and dark blues. It actually began as an accident, I just decided that I was unsatisfied with the colors we had, so I just poured a little of this, and a little of that, and eventually it became a pattern, which I knew was going to be my trend this year.
I decided to do this theme because I naturally drifted toward this theme without really realizing it. It became a trend and pattern throughout my work organically, without me consciously even thinking about a theme, so I thought it would be the only logical choice. I decided it would benefit my work greatly to create differing projects, as I would tend to create similar things due to glazes before. I also thought that it would greatly benefit me as an artist and ceramicist to experiment with the unknown possibilities, uncertainty and chance that comes along with mixing up a bunch of glazes and waiting to see what it comes out like. My theme is based on mixtures and color combinations of glazes in relation to how it changes the appearance and aesthetic of my art.
I have been very pleased by the outcomes of this theme on my art this semester. I feel that I have really grown as an artist and ceramicist due to this theme that I have been exploring. My art has been drastically altered through my usage of color mixtures and each project is individual and unique in a multitude of ways due to this theme. This makes every piece of art feel a little more special, as no other projects have been glazed in that exact same way with that exact same proportion and combination. I wish I had created more drastic shapes with which to play with this theme more, but I plan to do that next semeseter and also incorporate the lessons I have learned about glaze mixing from my current theme.
I made various projects involving this theme this semester. Many of them are bowls and I have made a few vases, a plate, a multi wheel combination vase, and a teapot. Mostly I wasn't really experimenting with shapes and different projects as much in the beginning as I was centered on playing around with colors and combinations of such. I decided eventually that I wanted to focus on colors and how the glazing and different combinations changed the image of the projects. As I went along, I began to realize how certain shapes really benefitted from the color combinations and continued along in that direction.
I made these by spinning on the wheel. Only one was a hand and wheel project, and my teapot was both. I created this theme by combining different glazes in varying proportions. Most of the ones that I experimented with were in the blue color family and range, as most of the glazes that we tend to carry at Mt. Si are different shades of blue, aqua, teal, and dark blues. It actually began as an accident, I just decided that I was unsatisfied with the colors we had, so I just poured a little of this, and a little of that, and eventually it became a pattern, which I knew was going to be my trend this year.
I decided to do this theme because I naturally drifted toward this theme without really realizing it. It became a trend and pattern throughout my work organically, without me consciously even thinking about a theme, so I thought it would be the only logical choice. I decided it would benefit my work greatly to create differing projects, as I would tend to create similar things due to glazes before. I also thought that it would greatly benefit me as an artist and ceramicist to experiment with the unknown possibilities, uncertainty and chance that comes along with mixing up a bunch of glazes and waiting to see what it comes out like. My theme is based on mixtures and color combinations of glazes in relation to how it changes the appearance and aesthetic of my art.
I have been very pleased by the outcomes of this theme on my art this semester. I feel that I have really grown as an artist and ceramicist due to this theme that I have been exploring. My art has been drastically altered through my usage of color mixtures and each project is individual and unique in a multitude of ways due to this theme. This makes every piece of art feel a little more special, as no other projects have been glazed in that exact same way with that exact same proportion and combination. I wish I had created more drastic shapes with which to play with this theme more, but I plan to do that next semeseter and also incorporate the lessons I have learned about glaze mixing from my current theme.