My wheel altered is a small and round vase/cup/ thing. It is about 2 inches wide and 2.5 inches tall. The top is broken and the bottom has cuts taken out. I wanted to learn how to foot without being on the wheel, so I used a knife to cut pieces out. There is black glaze in the cuts but in the center there is a purple and pink flower. The colors and the shape (the cuts and the broken top) create contrast. The outside is supposed to look harsh, almost city-like and man-made because I tried to make the black glaze that is inside of the cuts look like a city skyline. The inside is a flower representing nature. I wanted to use juxtaposition, comparing the natural world to the broken man-made society. The broken pieces on the top help to create broken down look with the outside, but when you are looking at the inside, the broken pieces help to finish the ends of the petals.
This is my lidded project, it has blue-green glaze but it showed up as black. It is about 4inches tall and 3 inches wide. The base of the project is very round and stubby. The lid has a knob and I pressed the knob so that it is a round cube shape instead of a sphere. Before I had known how to make a lid by basically making a planter, but I had to learn how to make a knob. The main art element is color because it is one solid color, showing unity between the two pieces. Despite the lid and the base being thrown at separate times and physically being separate, they are unified by the same solid color that shows that they belong together. Technically, you can take any lid and any base that happen to be the same size, but just because they fit together does not mean that they are a set. But the lid is the same size and same color, making it obvious that they are a set. They are literally made for each other <3
This is my large bowl, it is 3.5 inches by 7.5 inches and made out of red clay. It is short and wide with a round base and clear glaze. This was the first time I have ever thrown with red clay, and it was also the largest thing I have ever thrown. I had to use bigger rib tools and pull up in sections, but for the most part the technique was not much different. The shape is very round and short, it is the classic bowl shape. The shape creates a balanced, proportional design. The red clay and basic shape express naturalness yet functionality in a way that is often associated with indigenous peoples and their historic use of clay.
My tall project is 6 inches by 1.5 inches, it is a very tall and narrow vase. It has a thick yet faint line that spirals up and around the project from the base to the top. It is made of red clay with a blue glaze that turned out black. In order to make it thin an tall, I had to choke a cylinder. The opening became very small, so I had to choke it to pull up instead of pulling by pinching clay up. The think line that spirals up provides patterned and rhythmic movement.
The first bowl is 2 inches tall and 5.5 inches wide. It is more shallow and wide compared to deeper and round. It has clear glaze with a ton of green stained dots on both the inside and outside of one quarter section of the bowl to create a pattern. The clear glaze shows the gritty texture of the clay and gives the bowl a natural, earthy look. The second bowl is 2.5 inches tall and 4.75 inches wide. It has white glaze on the outside and the inside is striped with different shades of blue and green. To create this, I put different glazes (cobalt blue, mystery blue, and two or three more) in the bottom of the bowl and used a brush to mix and sweep the glaze up the sides of the bowl. This created a striped pattern that goes towards the center and the mixture of the different colors gives a marbelized look. I did not use any new skills when making these bowls, however they were my first pieces in three years so I had to re-learn how to throw. Although these pieces are different in shape (one is short and wide the other taller and thinner) and in pattern, they are actually quite similar. The blues and greens used in the second piece compliment the green dots in the first. These natural colors create an ocean flow, with a cold feeling. Because the stripes are not perfect lines and the dots are not perfect circles, both pieces give an organic look. They are roughly the same size and can fit nicely inside of eachother, so they still work as a set.
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