I. What did you make?: I made various projects involving this theme. Many of them are bowls and I have made a few vases, a plate, and a teapot. Mostly I wasn't really experimenting with shapes and different projects as much in the beginning as I was playing around with colors and those combinations. I really 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.
II. How did you make it?: 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.
III. Why- theme statement?: 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 for a theme. 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.
II. How did you make it?: 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.
III. Why- theme statement?: 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 for a theme. 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.