Season 2 Episode 3:
1. Raku is from Japan. 2. They are weighting the ball of clay in order to make sure all the pieces are the same and weight about the same amount. The ball of clay have to be even and consistent to each other. 3. The bottle need to fill a total of six cups. If they have two bottles then they need to make 12 cups. 4. Sketch at the bottom of page. 5. The saggar is the piece on the outside covering. 6.The "off the hump" is different from the traditional throwing because with the "off the hump," you throw from one lump to the next without weighting the lump of clays like it is done with the traditional throwing and trying to make it all look about the same. 7. A lot of pieces that were thrown, the bottom had a hole in them. 8. The winner had a total of 13 bowls. 9. When turning a pot or trimming, if you over trim a piece, you can cut through the piece as holes or under trim a piece they look and feel dirty, rough, and heavy. 10. By tapping the bottom of the piece, they can tell how thick the piece is and if they suppose keep on turning the pot or trimming the piece. 11. The first firing that last 24 hours is called a Bisque fire. 12. 14th Century carving work is called, "the Devil's Work." 13. It is better to have several small pieces in a lantern piece. 14. You can draw your design in pencil first before glazing the piece. 15. Raku means happiness or enjoyment. 16. In Raku, black has no glaze and to have that black color, you have to paint the piece with wax. 17. Copper Oxides create a metallic finish to the piece such as metallic red and blue to the piece. 18.Copper wire wrapped creates black color lines around the piece. 19. Raku temperature speeds go fast. 20. The bins had sawdust in the bottom of them. 21. Items that they used to burn: hair, cooper, banana peels, seaweed, beards, pony/horse's hair, salt, lavender, flowers, cloth, flowers, and sister's hair. 22. When they put the pieces in reduction, they make the color of the piece intensifies or become stronger. 23. After the pieces have been decorated, they are dipped in a bucket of water in order to cool it down and get rid of all dirt/ things that were used to burn the piece. 24. On bottom of the page.
0 Comments
Hello,
March 27: I just started planning out my non-clay challenge. I decided to make a hummingbird and I decided on a hummingbird because I also loved hummingbird for their beauty especially because of the multiple color pattern that they have. I also had a necklace of a hummingbird that my uncle gave me years ago and it was one of my favorite necklace ever. The point of this project is to create a piece without the use of clay with just the materials around my house. Most of the materials that I am using are old toys like tennis balls that my dogs has destroyed in the last couple of days and a couple of bottle water that he destroyed as well. I also found an old green and blue scarf and pink head scarf that we are going to donate that I am going to. I am planning to mainly use the green and blue scarf for the feathers around the wings and tails. I might use the pink scarf for some color as pink dots or pink line around the hummingbird's neck. For the eyes, I recently had a stuffed animal that got ripped and was losing filling. This filling is a tiny white balls like that I can paint black to create his eyes. I also will steal a piece of wood from outside in order to create the beak. March 30: After a couple of days, my plan for this project changed. I changed the head/beak from the toy squeaker from one of my dog's dogs. I also added some black and pink from a old sock and pink scarf to add color, eyes, and legs to my pieces. I also used a needle and gray string to keep the fabric piece together as the feathers and tails. I tried to worn the fabric into the tennis ball but it was too hard to actually get the tennis through. In the end, I thought that I had hot glue in my school but I didn't so I had to use tape and keep it all on a sheet of paper. If I could redo it, I would use hot glue instead of tape and not have a sheet of paper as part of my piece. However, I did find the color successful. I was able to have multiple and vibrant colors of a humming bird. The shape of my humming bird ended up quite similar to the reference pictures that I have of humming birds. The body of the my humming bird is more round and circular than an actually humming bird who are more thin. However, the shape and position of my humming bird matches my picture except I wish that I put the wings a little closer together. I also feel that the feather and tails have some flow of movement due to the fabric being cut up. It almost like like the wings and tails are flapping and in motion as if my humming bird is actually flying. I was mainly inspired by my love of humming bird and their vibrant color and I think that I was successful in creating that. I was successful due to having multiple colors throughout my piece. Hello,
For this project , I have to create a pit-fired piece. The first thing that I did is find five references pictures. I was really inspired by three of them. One of them has three curved line throughout the body of the piece. I want to do the same thing on my piece but I think that I have to let it dry for a bit before doing it on the wheel. Another picture has a lid with a triangle-like handler and I would to copy it as well. The final reference picture has a piece that has a short and circular shape and I want to copy it. After drawing my first draft and gluing all of my reference pictures, I started to build my piece. I also cut out a piece of cardboard with roughly the shape and size of my piece except in the end, I ended having my piece smaller than I originally wanted due to school shutting down. I started by creating a bottom before coiling out piece about the size of my thumb. I also curve the top of my piece and created a lid and handler by pitch-potting. Now, I want to let it dry for a bit before taking it to the wheel and trying to get the curves throughout the body of the piece. After that, I want to get a couple of things such as dog food, chicken bones, dog hair, and other things to burn with when we put in the pit-fire. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
May 2020
Categories |