Tuesday, April 10, 2012

coming soon

Coming soon will be pictures of my newer ceramic pieces which consist of a my purple elephants, a burnished bowl , and a sculpture of a bunch of messed up bowls which where thrown on the wheel and smashed together to create an interesting piece of art that will look cool with plants in it because they will grown out of all parts of the piece.

Mr. Sculpture

This was supposed to be a sculpture of a baby pouting with a hat on backwards but turned out to be a grown man who is extremely into the baseball game and has a snarl on his face. The process in making this beautiful creature consisted of making its shape by squishing newspaper together and wrapping that in sourrand wrap. Then i layered about a cementer thick of clay on top of my form and started to create the general shape and slowly added the hat and facial features.  The features are pretty accurate except for the proportion between the eyes/ eyebrows and the hat. there should have been a little more space. it is currently in the process of being glassed, red, blue, brown, and tan.

Coil Pot

This is my coil pot. It is about 10 inches tall. I used a series of coils and stacked them by using the technique of slip and scoring. once the coils were stacked and about 8 inches high i started to smooth out the inside. I then smooth half of the outside and decided to finish and smooth the entire pot.  With  two inches until i finished i added flat round shapes to ass some contrast to the pot.  My coil pot is not being used outside as a planter.