This is an extra project I've made. It's a large bowl, 8 inches tall and 8 inches wide. It's glazed with turquoise matte on the inside and dark blue on the outside with swirly moons carved into the outside and drops of black on the inside. All of this sounds like a lot but in the end I think it works well together. The piece isn't too cluttered or too busy. It represents a thoughtful mood because of the darker tones and larger shape. I'm really proud of this bowl because it's been really hard for me to throw big for a long time and being able to make this sort of threw me out of my funk :)
This is my extra porcelain cat cup! It's only 3 inches tall but I love it. It's made of porcelain glazed with red and pink underglaze cats stamped into its surface along with clear over the top. Its art element is cuteness of course and the stamp's non-perfectness gives it a nice cute sort of character. It sits in my room and I smile whenever I see it :) The three of these are porcelain cylinders which I have dubbed my "Henna cups" because of the designs on them. None of them are very tall , the tallest being 4 inches and the shortest being 3 inches. But what they lack in height they make up in design. I fell in love with some henna tattoo designs on the internet a few weeks ago and wanted to see how they would look on clay. I knew it would take a while to draw and carve them but it was worth it. I wanted to combine the pristine white surface of the porcelain with the bold lines of underglaze on the designs. I tried different colors but I think I like the black the best because it has the most contrast. The overall feeling that these exemplify is a peaceful pondering. I like the way complex designs like these are actually extremely simple when you look at each component of them. It mimics life in a way that the most complicated situations can have the simplest solutions. Overall I'm very happy with the way these turned out! I like them better than my first set of three! And I found out that I really like doing things in sets like this... Maybe I'll do more! This project is 6 inches tall and 4 inches wide. I like this tall project a lot more than my other one because to be honest, the other one sort of sucked. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually make something taller than normal and make it look nice, and I even painted some nice little waves on it. The mood of this piece is tranquil because instead of confusing the piece with lots of colors and textures I just have the green with blue, both cool colors, that work together to compliment the symmetry of the piece. This is a porcelain bowl that I made as an extra wheel project. It is 6 inches wide and 5 inches tall. I loved throwing with the porcelain because it was so smooth and fragile but also resilient. With this project I wanted to take pride in the natural white color of the porcelain which made me think of innocence and purity so I glazed it with bright, cheerful colors to keep that theme in mind. The main technique I used to make this was throwing with porcelain. I love the way this bowl turned out with the paint strokes viable and the smooth shininess of the porcelain. It's so beautiful. This is what I'm calling an "inverse bowl" because I decorated the outside with coils that project out of the surface of the clay and carvings that go into the clay. It's 5 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches tall and glazed with light blue with black glaze in the cracks and white glaze over the ridges. The theme of this bowl is opposites-- the light and dark, the protruding clay and the carved clay. I had to write an essay in this same week about opposites and how one can't exist without the other and I wanted to make a piece of art to match, so here it is.Some techniques I used include making coils and carving the clay along with painting glazes and making patterns in the clay. |
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