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.

Drawing III

I ended up liking my drawing class by the end of the semester. I produced a lot of stuff, and even though the majority of it isn't anything great, or anything i really like that much, I learned a lot.

Having to explain these projects is gonna make my head hurt, but I'll do my best. For our final project we had to do two drawings, and divide the picture plane at least two more times than just the paper itself. the two drawings are supposed to function as one big drawing and the assignment was based on a thematic idea. So my theme for this ended up being order and chaos. It was originally supposed to be inside and outside, but somehow it evolved into this. There was a lot more guidelines we had to follow but that's the gist of it. each piece of paper is 22 x 30 so they're pretty big.


This was a pretty quick color project we did. we had to use two objects that related to each other and make them look old and new by use of color. again, it's four different pieces of paper but it's supposed to work as one drawing. I used and apple and an apple cutter for my objects. each piece is 11 x 15 and done in pastel and colored pencil.


This project was also multiple drawings that are meant to work as one big drawing. the theme was daily rituals so i chose driving as my daily ritual. we were supposed to create a pattern with some drawings predominantly light/dark. each piece of paper is 11 x 15.

Painting I

Here are the other two paintings I did for my painting class. Our final project was the tromp l'oeil painting. i chose to do something a little more conceptual by framing a paper airplane. The frame has a couple of glaze layers on it to give it a more shiny effect. for the time i finished it in, i'm pretty happy with the result.





This is the apples glazing project. I had a really hard time with the underpainting in acrylic, because it was drying so fast and i couldn't get the paint to do what i wanted it to do, so i basically just rushed through it. I liked the way the glazing itself turned out though. There's about 7 or 8 layers of glaze on it.












Overall, I learned a lo in the class and I definitely want to try some more paintings in the future.