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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.
This is an extra credit cylinder project thrown on the wheel. This project begins as wide as its base, and as it grows taller gains curvature to its form, coming to a large flare at the very top. The base glaze coat is dark blue; on the inside at the bottom I put some white glaze so create a light blue bottom; and on the rim is a combination of white and Italian straw glazes. In order to create this project, I used choking in order to help form the slight curves to the cylinder. Color and movement are two important elements present in this project, seeing as the white and Italian straw seem to run down the inside and outside of the cylinder. Overall, I receive a methodical and ancient feeling radiating from this formed cylinder.
This is the tall project thrown on the wheel. The cylinder has a ribbed appearance and slightly flares out as it increases in height, slightly curving in at the top. For this project, I experimented with the two new blue glazes: light blue is on the top and dark blue is on the bottom. Unfortunately, the two blues look to be the same on the outside, but on the inside the dark blue is slightly different (it was a thinner layer on the inside). In order to make this project, I used different pressures in order to create the curvature at the top of the cylinder where it flares out and then curves in at the finish. Due to the ribbed design of the cylinder, it has texture, and due to the gradual increase in radius of the cylinder as height increases, it has proportion and scale. To me, this tall project gives off a melancholy feel, as though one had been stuck inside all day on a rainy day.
This is the second bowl project on the wheel. The bowl is circular, but has straighter walls than is typical of a bowl - its walls flare out more from the base than make a curve - and is wholly covered in shadow green. In order to fabricate this project, I worked on making sure to pull all of the clay up from the base of the project so as not to discard extra clay, not make the base heavy, and make the project taller. Color and emphasis are two elements of this project, seeing as there are multiple shades of green within the project and the darker spots of green make the viewer focus on those parts of the project, particularly on the interior. This project gives me a joyful, wondrous feeling.
This project is one of the two bowl projects. The bowl is uniform in shape, being equidistant from center to every point on the wall of the bowl. There are no external features on the bowl. I used the Dreamscape glaze on the entire project, which turned out to be a dark green-blue color. In order to create this project, I used the ribbed tool to give the bowl a circular form; however, differing from other projects, I did apply as much pressure to the bowl at the bottom as I did to the upper parts of the walls, which gave it more shape and form. Balance is another element to this project, seeing as the glaze is evenly distributed across the uniform shape of the bowl. This bowl gives me a calm feeling and reminds me of the deep, evergreen forest.
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