THello,
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.
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