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1. They have to make 2 slip casted vases. 2. B. 3 colored clays 3. Artists are given 5 and half hours to slip caste and decorate. 4. Liquid clay is called porcelain slip. 5.The slip needs to be stirred to get to the: C. right consistency. 6. The colored clay looks exactly like it will when it is fired: False 7. Each minute equals about 1 millimeter of thickness. 8. The rubber bands need to be tight. 9. Organization is key in the process: true. 10. Getting the cast out in one piece is very hard. 11. Artists are worried about carving too deep: A. Collapse Part 2: 1. They are looking for the widest bowl. 2. They have 10 minutes. 3. There are 2 balls of clay they use on the wheel. 4. Who won: C. Renaldo Part 3. 1. When opening the kiln, the colors looked: brighter. 2. There are 18 vases. 3. Leonard. 4. Claire. 5. I do agree with Leonard being cut because the porcelain slip was too thin for him to the design that he did, his piece ended up, unfortunately, looking like a mess. It looked like it collapsed and that's not a pretty look. Also, the color didn't look that great; the yellow looked washed out and overall, it wasn't as well constructed and pretty looking as the other artists' pieces. 6. I do agree with Claire being top potter because her piece ended up fantastic. The delicate details throughout was beautiful and you could really see each individual piece of the feather. The story behind why Claire added feather to her piece was beautiful and emotional and that made her piece even better. Also, like the judges said, her color were great, bright and vibrant. None of the colors blended into each other and you could truly see each different color. 7. Drawing.
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Right now, we are working on a project that involve creating a small pendant of clay for a necklace or piece of jewelry. I decided to create a pendant after the cathedral of Brasília. This is a building or monument that can be found in the capital of Brazil, Brasília. Oscar Niemeyer designed this building but it was build by Brazilian structural engineer Joaquim Cardoze. It was finalized on May 13, 1970. I decided to create my pendant after this building because I personally have always wanted to go Brasília. I have never been there before; I have only been to São Paulo my entire life in Brazil and I would like to visit more place in Brazil. Also, I really loved the design of the building and Oscar Niemeyer's designs of buildings. Niemeyer is quite famous and popular In Brazil. I decided to do two different pendants; one that is close copy to the building and the other one, I am going to attempt to only do the white part of the building without having the windows. With my second pendant, I'm going to follow the third reference picture that I have. This picture was taken back when they were first building the cathedral and they began by creating the piece that goes around the cathedral before adding the windows and the inside of it. I created my first piece by grabbing a small block of clay before shaping it to resemble the cathedral of Brasília. I tried to make the top more curve in to self while the bottom was more flat out. Once I had the shape and size that I wanted, I began to rock out small and long sticks of clay for the structure around the actual building. It actually took three tries to get the shape/size right for my first piece; at first, it was too tall and the second time, it was too fat and thick. The third time, however, was just right; I sound like Goldilocks from the fairy tale. One thing that I would change about my piece is that when I rocked out my sticks, I added right away to my piece. I wish that I had rocked out all the pieces before adding them to my piece because some ended up taller than others and thicker than others. The last thing that I did was use an old pencil to add some dots or windows around my piece. Next, I got started on my next piece. First, I got a piece of clay before flatting it out to a thin circle and after I add another one in order to add more depth and thickness to the piece. Later, I did the same thing except for the bottom of the piece. The next thing that I did is rock out more sticks of clay but this time, I rock them out first and then added to my piece. When I started adding the sticks to my piece, I quickly realize my original plan was not going to work. I only had two pieces of flatted circles and sticks but when I tried to add them, the entire piece would collapse. It would collapse because there was nothing in the middle to support it. So I ended up, grabbing a block of clay and sticking it between the top and bottom of my piece. If I could redo this, I wish that I could have had my piece standing without the need of the block of clay as a wood piece that I could remove later or piece of paper. Because I wanted my piece to kinda look like a cage but I think that it lost that appearance once I added the block of clay. The one thing that I really enjoyed about all my pieces was that they had unique shape to them and the back story to what it is and why I picked it. The shape of my pieces follows the shape of the cathedral of Brasília from the top being more curved into itself and the bottom more flatted out. I also added the texture of the windows by pressing the end of my pencil alongside my first piece. I created balance in my second piece by adding a block of clay in the midst of the top pieces. Season 3 Episode 2:
Part 1: 1. There are a total of 32 pieces in a chess set. 2. The artists are given 4 and half hours to create the pieces. 3. The creating pieces by hand is called hand-building. 4. True 5. The extrusion tool is being used in order to help the cylinders be consistent with each other. 6. Claire is inspired by the rocks formation in Northern Ireland which were caused by volcanoes many years ago. 7. Matt put some black stain into his clay body before hand building. 8.Rosalind is using antique pieces of glass that her husband made in his job. 9. The size are determined by the blocks/pieces on the chess set. They have to fit on the blocks/pieces on the chess set. 10. Leonard left one piece out of the drying room. Part 2: 1. They need throw 3 pieces. Bowl, cylinder, and narrow necked bellied pot. 2. False. 3. For a design element, they added colored slip to the outside. 4. All pieces must be under 6cm. 5. Winning Set: the cylinder was different from many of the others because it was very narrow unlike the others and the way that he added the slip and using a brush over it. Part 3: 1. Using oxides creates a better color by fixing all the marks made on the piece. 2. Glazes fire differently from how they first appear and this is difficult for artists to deal with this because it means that they can't trust the glaze/ color that going to show and it's a guessing game on what color they are actually going to end up with. It also mean that they have to be very careful to not put the wrong glaze on their piece even though it might look like the right glaze/color that they want. 3. Kit used tape to create a crisp line. 4. Both of the sea people used shells on their boards. 5. A glaze fire take a total of 24 hours. Part 4: 1. He said in response that he wanted to make something functional. 2. Flea's pieces was hard to handle because all the sea glass and coral effect throughout her pieces. 3. I think that Claire should have won and she truly represented those qualities quite well. I thought her pieces were creative, glazed beatifically, and I really liked the background with the Northern Ireland's rocks for the shape of the pieces. Although, I do also think that Rosalinda should have won; her pieces were beautiful and the details on those faces was beautiful and the fact that she had small things like the king being taller than the queen was wonderful. 4. Bottom of page. |
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