The first project I made was a cereal bowl made out of white earthenware clay. As you can tell the lip of the bowl is not very smooth and I didn’t add enough coats when I was glazing. My next project I made was a face sculpture. To make the face I combined two pinch […]
Blog post 11
For my new project I am doing a vase out of coils. I found this vase online. I collaborated with Trevor for help on the vase. I asked for feedback to see how I was doing. Another artistic behavior that I did was artists plan. I did some research on this type of vase. I […]
Blog Post 10
The artistic behavior that I am strongest in are risk. I am also strongest in artists create original art. The reason I am stronger in these is because for risks I like to try new things and different methods of clay building. An example of this is when I combined coiling and slabs to create […]
Blog post 9
My Florida theme project is on Floridas orange grooves. I chose this theme because I grew up next to some orange grooves. My project is going to be an orange tree. To make the shape I made an outline out of poster board. Then I made slabs and cut them in the shape of a […]
Blog post 8
I have just finished glazing my animal vessel. My animal vessel was a turtle. The outcome of my project was more than I expected. I used a different kind of glaze on my turtle shell. The new kind of glaze that I used was called Crystaltex glaze. I never used this glaze and it made […]
Blog post #7
The type of clay we recently started to work with is called red earthen ware. This clay is different than the other clay because of the color and I found it easier to shape into objects. The object we made was a shoe. To make the shoe we had to do the pinch-pot method. Instead […]
Blog post 6
As I was doing my “Refine Craft” animal vessel my ideas changed. At first I wanted to do the pinch pot method for the turtle shell. Now I want to do the slab method. My ideas changed because with the pinch pot method I wouldn’t be able to make the shell as big as I […]
Blog post #5
Recently in class we have been working on a group project. We made a slab box with the help of everyone in our group. We used many techniques including coiling and using slip to make sure the walls will be strong and firm. After that the group chose an underglaze which was blue for our […]
Blog Post #4
The Mimbres artwork was mostly ceramics but with a drawing inside of the bowl. The drawings consisted of animals and geometric shapes. The animals that they drew usually meant a lot to them. The animals they drew were there food source and what they relied on. They also had geometric shapes that I really don’t […]