Ceramic Survey

My ceramic survey class was definitely my favorite class this semester. It required a lot of outside of class work, but I am pretty proud of most of the things i made. I'll be taking a hand building class next semester too!

We had to make teapots for our final project. We had the option to make them however we wanted, either on the wheel or hand built. I made the body and the spout using the wheel and then i did the lid and the detail designs using hand built techniques. The lid ended up getting stuck in the glaze kiln so i had to get an xacto knife and wedged it apart and unfortunately it flew off, hit the ground, and shattered into a ton of pieces. luckily i was able to glue it back together and you can't really tell it was broken!





Half of the semester was hand building and the second half was wheel throwing. we had to make 6 cups and 6 bowls. I had a really hard time photographing all of them and i didn't want to take a picture of each thing so here is one picture that came out good of two of my bowls.




This is the second assignment. We had to find an object and make it at least 12 times bigger to scale. So here is a giant battery!





This is the second part of this assignment. We had to take something from the original object and abstract it. I decided to use the little connector thing and make a planter.



Here is the first project finished. The glaze on the face was supposed to be a brown/honey color but it turned out black. it actually looks more charcoal/gray in real life.

Life Drawing II

Here is a few of my better/favorite drawings from my life drawing 2 class. I don't think i really learned much from the class, but i did experiment with new mediums.

ceramics

I'm really liking my ceramics class and this is the first project we did. the project was self portraits and we were supposed to tell something about ourselves with it. it was really open ended but i chose to do a traditional self portrait with the thing i was revealing being more abstract. I haven't worked with clay in a couple of years and i've never done anything like this so i'm happy with the way it turned out. it hasn't been fired yet because it's still drying but i'm just praying it doesn't explode in the kiln.

"Nobody knows it but me"

Finally!!!!!! i finished my series just in time to submit my portfolio next week. i'm so glad I managed to finish it and i'm pretty impressed with myself for completing 3 pieces in such a short time, that being said I think they could have been a lot better. i was definitely really ambitious with taking these on. i had to rush through them and i think it shows, especially with the last one, but i'm just glad i got them all done!

Life Drawing

my life drawing class has been going ok, it's not the best class ever and i'm not loving it as much as i wanted to. we started out using charcoal, and than black and white, and then added brown with those, and then we did pastel, and now we're using ink. it's cool that we are trying out different mediums but once i feel like i kinda get the hang of it we change to something new.

i havn't really gotten much worthy of posting but this one. we usually have two models and one of them is always the same girl, and this may sound weird but i don;t like drawing her and none of my drawings of her ever come out good :/ this drawing isn't of her, that's why i don't hate this one. there is some really talented people in the class though, i still have a long way to go for sure.

Way Cool!!!!

Michelle found this and let me know about it. The fundred dollar bill that I did for Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill project is featured on the ASU Art Museum website!

W.I.P.

I'm such a slacker. School is going to start and i didn't finish my series like i had hoped, go figure. I'm almost done with this first one, but here are some pictures of the drawing and my process. The way i draw is kinda weird, i've never really seen anyone draw the way i do so i'll try to explain. once i have my initial pencil outline, i start with the charcoal. i work in layers. I like to block everything in with a middle gray tone, and then from there i add another layer with the darker areas , and then i erase for the highlights. after that i give it a spray of fixative and go over the darks, and i basically just repeat that for however much it needs. I don't work from left to right or start with one area, i'm kinda just all over the place. It basically looks like shit until i add the final layer and it starts to come together towards the end. I think i'll post the finished scan when i have all 3 done, which hopefully is sooner than later.