This is my choice project, a bowl, that was thrown from clay on the wheel. The texture is extremely smooth on both the inside and out, meaning water was not left on the inside or outside to puddle. This was my first project in which I splattered instead of dripping or dipping to glaze. The black on green looks like mint chocolate chip ice cream, but this also shows the contrast of light and dark glazes and enhances each other's appearance because of this.
This is an extra credit project I threw on the wheel, a vase. The surface is extremely smooth and flat until it creates a lip on top. It is a dark brown, almost mahogany color created from scrap brown. Since it has such an odd shape, it can be used as both a bowl and a vase. The outside has a very smooth and consistent rhythem. This was the second vase I threw on the wheel, but was not used as my vase due to the choking technique not being used. This is a thrown cup with a pulled handle. It was made from clay and looks as if it could be sold as a souvenir mug. A new skill I learned from this project is how to pull a handle and attach a handle that was not originally apart of the cup. This cup contains plenty of shape, as a cylinder in the shape of a cup, as well as texture, it being very rough. This cup shows my progression as a thrower, going from barely being able to center a piece of clay to attaching a handle to an already centered cylinder with a compressed lip!
This was the first project I have thrown that had a lid added to it, that being the first lidded project. It surprisingly, with the dark green color, appears as something that would appear in nature do to its imperfect cylinder shape. One new skill I learned during the process of this creation was using calipers to measure the lip of a cylinder in order to make a lid from a much smaller piece of clay. This project has a circular shape in the lid as well as the base, and also a very smooth texture with slight ripples. This texture represents how I am improving or trying to improve in ceramics. I was told that since there are ripples in the base from the originally thrown clay, it shows my inexperience. However, I can use this as a goal to improve and look back to see how I have improved over time.
This was the first planter that I threw on the wheel. One new skill I learned from this is how to pull a wall twice. I used this skill to separate the wall from the base of the planter. Art elements in this planter include color in the glaze, the smooth texture that is uniformly around the side, and form, as the planter is 3-D. This planter was important because it was my first project that did not solely revolve around the basic cylinder, like a bowl or a cup did. This project also helped me increase my footing skills, as the project was not as thick as I would have wanted, so I had to foot only where it was thick. |
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