being able to take just a ball of paper towels and and some old straws and make it into something this cool was a challenge. Thinking back to the beginning I had no idea how Maddie was going to be able to do it. But as she layered it started to find it shape. The teeth were super hard as there were so many and since we made them out of clay we did have time to fire them so if they got wet if would have gone down hill. Glueing on the teeth was also super hard because they were all so jammed together and so tiny. The color of the piece was perfect it hit the I just ate someone look perfectly. I like how the paper towels also gave it some texture.
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Its going well Maddie c is the one doing the structure while I are all the teeth. Its hard because I have to make so many and make them not look the same but not look all completely different.
This was my for fun spitfire. I liked this piece the most out of any of my art. It was made on the wheel. I was throwing and just letting my hands do what they want and this cute little guy came from it. I didn't want to glaze it because that's boring when I can put it in a pit of fire. so I rapped it up withs some random things and let if burn. The colors that come out where amazing the black and grey work so well and really complement how the are little parts of brown and reds. it does have some good weight to it because I was throwing with acrylic nails on but it works out fine because it holds my moms Thai Buda flower band.
throwing was defiantly my favorite technique. I love his much power you need to make something so supple and delicate. how the clay form to your hand and your body movements. The amount of body strength you need is amazing and its all from the arms and abs with perfect stability in the legs and arms. Its also a great hand steadying technique and with my dreams to be a Surgeon it great. it teaches you how to properly hold something so fragile and delicate with still being able to understand proper movement and how the smallest moves make a worlds difference.
clay was 100% my favorite material to work with the whole time. There are so many different ways to build with it the wheel, slabs, coils, and I am pretty sure I invented some dumb ways to build with it. On the wheel when it moves perfectly with your hand and with the smallest movement it completely changes. working with slabs is fun because you can build with a whole slab or cut things out of it, and coils are my least favorite but they are still cool. I like how you can rap them around anything and its like on OG from grade school.
1. My favorite tool to use in class was most definitely the wheel. Its a messy fun with so many qualities. I don't think I could have made such perfect bowls and glass without the wheel so clean. I find wet clay is the easiest to throw because it is easiest to manipulate. The speed of the wheel is definitely intimidating at first but once you know how beneficial it is you grow to love it. I can say that boy does it make a mess and take up tons of water. For me I am good at keeping in centered doesn't matter how wet (yes yes I have attempted to throw slip and yes I did sum what succeed.) but the second it starts to have friction I can't seem to do anything. I can defiantly make a mean ramen bowl because of it.
2. Every little kid has watched a tv show where someone is on the wheel and there is clay all over them nothing is centered and their clay is just flopping around. As a kid you play with clay and you know how easy it is too shape and sculpt with so how hard can throwing be. The first time I tried it was with Megan when she couldn't even get it down on the wheel. I was like let me give you a hand. Boy looking back at that and seeing how dumb I sounded and looked. The amount of muscle and steadiness you need is ridiculous. You have to know has to adjust the speed of the wheel and your hand as you make ur object and know when you need water and when you have so much clay stuck to the wheel base that you need to scrape it off because it uncentering you. I wanted something festive and cute to put festive things on. I think small cookie or chocolate trays are the cutes things ever so I made one for myself. Definitely not my favorite thing to do because of the mess and I don't find the indentions that nice. I do like the cut out and love how the underglaze look. If I could redo it I would spend more time on the carvings and not put the melting gems in.
It was Christmas time and even though I am jewish I love Christmas and I like trays to put yummy things on so I made these dudes. I didn't use a slab roller I used a rolling pin instead, and to get the shapes I used two plastic trays, and cookie cutters for the shape in the middle. Then put down underglaze and scrapped away some lines and shapes then fired it and put clear glaze with some melting gems.
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