Grading blog
These two plates make up my two-plates project. Both plates are uniform, seeing as each radius, respective to its plate, is consistent all the way around the plate. The plate on the left is slightly smaller than the plate on the right. Both plates are glazed in pink and white, but the white glaze on the right plate came out better than the white glaze on the left plate did. In order to create these plates, I learned to pull out and across rather than straight up. However, I also learned how to pull up at the edge of the plate to create a lip so that the plate has some shape to it, not just laying flat. The plate on the left has color and proportion while the plate on the right has value and movement. Together, however, they give off a happy, calm, soft mood.
0 Comments
This is a wheel-thrown, seamix choice project (#2). This project is uniform in shape, seeing as it gradually increases in diameter in at an equal rate on all size. There are no extra features on this cylinder, but the dark blue, white, and scrap glazes painted on the surface of the cylinder blended together and gives it a cloud-like appearance. In order to fabricate this project, I pulled the walls with less pressure than I would using vashon white clay because it made it easier for me to find the balance in working with the seamix with applying less pressure as I pulled the walls. Color and movement are key elements in this project, seeing as the three glazes applied to the cylinder blended and created more colors, plus made it seem as though they are moving across and down the walls. Altogether, this project gives me a happy, elevated, cloud-like feeling.
This is my first choice project for the semester - it is a short bowl. This bowl begins to curve out right at the base and then curves in at the top, and it was glazed in dream green with low-fire white drizzled down from the top and up from the bottom. In order to fabricate this project, I learned how to pull a bowl's curvature with my fingers, starting right from the base, without it collapsing in on itself at the bottom. This bowl has movement and color to it, seeing as the glaze seems to move (as a result of the white drips) and the green glaze gave it a dark green look on the outside and a light blue look on the top. Overall, this bowl reminds me of a joyful, rainy day deep in the evergreen forest.
This is the wheel-altered project and can be used as a shallow pitcher or gravy bowl. The project starts with a wide base and then begins to flare out like a bowl, ending in a series of "waves" at the top with one part of it pulled out for a "spout." A handle has been attached to the side opposite the spout. I had dipped it in metallic brown and then sponged burnt orange on the top edges and on the inside, but it mixed with the metallic brown and is not visible. In order to fabricate this project, i learned how to alter a wheel-thrown project off of the wheel after it has been thrown so as to add shape and flare to it in a way that I am not able to on the wheel. This gravy bowl has form and balance, helping give it a pleasurable, dark feeling.
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
June 2015
Categories |