Ceramic Handbuilding

I really liked my ceramics class this semester and i got some pretty cool pieces out of it. I'm excited to be taking wheel throwing next semester.

This was our final project. We had to make a hybrid out of two different objects so i chose to use a spraypaint can and a praying mantis, thus spraying mantis. clever i know. the arms are made in three different pieces that i had to glue together after everything was all glazed. unfortunately two of the pieces glazed together so i had so break them apart. you can't tell the damage from these pictures because the parts that broke are on the other side, but i definitely had a lot of issues with this piece.It's about 15 inches tall.





Our third assignment for the class was a landscape project. we had to make some kind of landscape. i chose to do these mountain inspired forms. this thing is gigantic. it's 29 inches tall and weighs about 50 pounds. everything went pretty well with this piece until the final glaze firing. it ended up cracking in the back, which was really disappointing because it came out of the bisque fire perfect. i plan on putting it outside surround by some rocks so the unglazed lip at the bottom won't be that big of a deal.



Our second project was to make a zoomorphinc vessel. we had to choose an animal and combine it in some way to make it any type of vessel. i did a great horned owl and just made a simple vase. it's about 14 inches tall. i kinda think it looks a bit cooler before it had been fired or glazed so i included a picture of that.




And here is my jomon pot again. i'm really happy with this one. it's 16 inches tall.