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Today, we are going to talk about my pit fire project while it's in the process of getting finished. The process that I used to create my piece is coil. Meaning that I simply begin with rolling out a piece of clay and then pressing a piece of green paper against the clay with the measurements I needed before finally cutting it out. I cut out five pieces in total; in the start, all the pieces were 5 by 4 inches but I had to cut out my bottom piece in half in order to get it in there. Next, I smooth out the pieces with a wet sponge on both sides and allowed it to dry with the help of hair dryer after a bit. Once it was dry enough to stand up on it's own, I begin to glue and slip my pieces together. Scratching out lines on the sides of my pieces before adding some slip in order to pinned it to the base and sides. Once I able it to dry before starting to work on the top of my box and its handler. I simply added some water on the top of my unfinished drying box and pressed it against my paper before cutting it out. However, this didn't work very well for me because I never added enough water so the imprint never came out just right. This lead to the biggest problems that I had with this piece, which is getting the measure just right. I had to redo the bottom and the top mainly because I did by eye or some how messed up on the measurement in general. The other biggest problem that I had is with cracking; toward of my side, I think that I didn't glue just right, having done it at the last minute before the bell rang. It simply didn't set right, leading to problems. However, I do think that my box is successful in its final look because it is pretty identical and spaced out enough to make a decent box for my room. I also think that I am doing a pretty good job on smoothing everything out and smoothing it with a metal spoon in order to get that beautiful pottery shine. I still not done with my box, I still have to finish smoothing it out with a spoon, finish up the top of the box and slip and glue the handler to the top of the box. My design hasn't really changed, it pretty much identical to the one I drew out except for the measurement that I had to change in order to make it work. I don't plan on changing anything that I first plan out; right now, I am simply finishing up what I started. Thank you for reading and hoped you enjoyed!
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For this blog post, I have no photo because it was accidentally throw away in the trash over Wednesday when we were out on holiday. The vase that my group picked together as a team was the hydria. This type of vase comes from Ancient Greece and was used for mainly water carrying during that period of time. Our vase was crafted out from the Snow White fairy tale from having the well with Snow White in the beginning, evil queen giving Snow White the poisoned apple as the dwarfs run on, and finally, the final scene with Snow White waking up with the Prince by her side. All this pieces are divided by red apples that we glued red paper to. The entire vase was black with white from a white gel pen and I mainly worked on highlighting the entire vase, itself, with the pen and drawing out the picture. I also present to the class with other girl the invisible piece of paper and explained it. In this short project, I learned the definition of Sgraffito is the Italian word for scratch and Registers mean the horizontal lines divided to tell a story. For example, how our vase is divided up and arranged in certain way into three parts to tell the fairy tale of Snow White from beginning to middle to the end. Thank you for reading and hoped you enjoyed! Hi and welcome back!
Today, I am going to talk about the tripod cup that I been going on for a couple of week now. It started off with just the drawing of my idea, which is a fish design of a tripod with eyes at the side, fins, and scales. I struck pretty close to my idea, only changing by adding a tail and one more fin. Next, we started watching video of how to shape it properly by simply bending the bottom into a triangle until they meet and closing off the remaining pieces. We also practiced with clay stamps, viewing designs and what might work best with our tripod before finally creating our clay stamps. I created five clay stamps in total; some were better then others and some were just bad. I go into more detail in a later blog post. Next, we simply gained our own pieces of clay, which I started out by rolling out the clay completely into a clay slab or a complete flat out piece of clay before measuring out and cutting a piece of paper for the clay. What I did with the piece of paper is I place under the clay and then trimming out the additional piece. Finally, I trimmed a bit of the side of clay and glued the two sides together then I begin to work on the tripod bottom. Bending it in a triangle shape until it formed into three side and simply I combined them together. Leaving behind only a small circle in the middle that I fix with clay. The next thing I did is simply work on the design and texture of my tripod. I start out with grabbing a scale like piece of clay texture and then I press it against the central middle of the tripod. I think this texture was the less successful piece of my entire fish tripod because at times, the texture piece wouldn't properly press against the clay. Leaving behind a nearly invisible scales so I would press over and over, which leaves the scales to overcrowd themselves making the scales not very visible and realistic looking. The ending texture is interesting but not what I wanted, if I could I would have maybe made a clay stamp of scales or practice more with textured pieces before adding to my final piece. Next, I simply worked on the final details; creating fins and craving out lines, eyes, tail and lines, and finally, smoothing out the bottom and other piece of my fish. I would say that I think that the most successful piece of my fish was my fins because I shaped them pretty well, if I do say so myself, and bended them perfectly in order to grab it. These fins ended up being my handles on my fish tripod. I simply did the style from wanting to make a somewhat realistic fish and shaping two pieces of clay until they looked like fins then I craved out lines to look like the bones in fins, beneded the side in order to be picked up, and finally glued it in to the base of the tripod. I glued all the remaining pieces and then smooth out the bottom and I wait for it to dry out and heat out into a real tripod of a fish. Another thing that I have to say was pretty successful in my fish was making him have personality. I made a mistake in the eyes and the fins, placing them in different area from each other but in the end, it ended up looking my fish is simply dancing. Define Clay Slab: A flat piece of clay. Thank you for reading and hope you enjoyed! Hi and welcomed back!
This blog post is going to be about Marta Klonowska, a polish artist. She was born in Warsaw in 1964 and now lives, works, in Dusseldorf. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland, during 1987 to 1989 and after that at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts as a master student under artist A.R. Penck from 1989 until 1977. She has won awards such as 1999 "Artist in Residence" at the Cite International des Arts in Paris, France and the 2002 "Artist in Residence" at the Akerby Skulpturpark in Sweden. She was also a finalist to the 2006 Bombay Sapphire Prize in London, England. Most of her recent pieces can be found in Finnish Glass Museum in Riihimaki, Lorch and Seidel Galerie in Berlin, and Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. The materials that she work with are mainly a metal skeleton before covering it with shattered colored glass in order to create beautiful and alluring sculptures as the ones below. She mainly crafts out animals as dogs, fish, and others, which is one of the main reason that I adore her work. Personally, I love animals with all my heart, especially dogs. Not only their personality but as well as their behavior and shape. How they move and their general appearance, which Klonowska has been able to capture perfectly. It looks to me that the sculptures are simply in motion or simply alive but I also enjoy the fact that she didn't just create sculpture of realistic animals. She created this realistic animals that appear to have come from a fairy tale or some magical world of color that just capture my eye and hold it there. Her work of colored animals of glass make me think of a fairy tales from a book or a story, the second thing that I love most in the world beside animals. I simply love her work because it combines the two things that I love most in the world, animals and stories, and it also is made out of glass, a material that I would never think to use. The way that she used the glass doesn't appear sharp but instead elegant like crystals from deep and dark alluring cave. In general, I simply just love her sculptures to death from her designs being of animals, the magical and fairy tale feel they have, and finally the elegant and crystal way that she transformed the shattered piece of colored of glass into. Thank you for reading, hoped you enjoyed! https://www.habatat.com/artist/130-marta-klonowska/ https://www.porta-polonica.de/en/node/231 |
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