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This is an extra credit vase project. Overall, it is fairly uniform in shape, having an equally changing radius from top to bottom, until the lip. The lip of the vase was purposely left uneven after choking to give it a different effect. Instead of regularly glazing the vase, I put raku glaze on it and fired it raku-style. In order to fabricate this project, specifically the uneven lip, I did not trip the top after I finished choking the project to the shape of a vase. As I choked, the lip became wavy and uneven. This beautiful raku vase has emphasis and texture. The emphasis is on the shiny parts of the project where the raku really came through, and the texture is randomly bumpy and smooth, not consistent in any way. To me, this project gives off a happy, antique, rustic feeling.
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This is an extra credit vase that starts narrow at the base, widens out to its point of largest radius about 2/3 of the way up, quickly shrinks the radius, and then comes up and out to form a nice lip at the top. The vase is glazed in dreamscape green, with white sponged on the lip and up the bottom until about halfway up, which turned the glaze into a beautiful blue. I have always had trouble making vases, and this one turned out fairly well (even though it is small), so I was very proud of it. In order to make this vase successfully, I was very aware of how I was pulling the walls, in which direction I was applying more pressure, and how I was choking. In other projects, I had the wheel spinning too quickly and so the choking did not work out as well as I wanted it too, so I took it slow this time and got a nicely small hole at the top of the vase. This vase has color, seeing as the green fades into the blue, and proportion because the curves and changes in radius are proportionate to the rest of the vase. This vase, as a whole, gives off a happy, deep-forest feeling.
This is an extra credit project. I threw it as a cylinder, and then, once it was off, pulled out the top into a diamond shape with little lips at each of the four corners. Seeing as it was a diamond at the top, I glazed each of the four different "walls" with a different glaze, as well as overlapped between glazes to test out the new blue glazes, which turned out in beautiful colors. Unfortunately, however, I thought I was glazing the inside with black, but it turned out to be metallic brown. I think this project would look much better with a black interior rather than brown. In order to fabricate this project, I learned how to alter a project off the wheel without destroying its overall shape that was given to it on the wheel (by only pulling/moving the structure at certain points and not trying to adjust the entire structure at once). This project has value, seeing there is a contrast between all the different shades of blue, and harmony, due to the fact that the colors of the bowl flow together with each other and its circular/diamond shape. Overall, this project gives off a unique, interesting, candy-shop feeling.
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June 2015
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