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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!
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