For this project, I created culturally different slab tiles. I took the idea of opposites literally and made a wild west themed tile and then a tile depicting Great Britain. GB is often thought of as more refined and the wild west is thought of, well, as wild. The cultural difference was refined compared to wild and free. In my artwork, I'm viewing the issue that the wild west has a certain serenity and how GB is often recognized by the English Bulldog, an animal. While I was creating my artwork, My wild west slab fell apart but, as you can see, I repaired it without flaws.For my GB tile, I had to decide whether to glaze the dog, or to paint it. I'm going to paint it but, when this picture was taken, it wasn't painted yet.
I created three cups on the wheel and attempted to make them irresistible. Irresistible, meaning that you wanted to pick them up as soon as you saw them. I liked the drip glazing of my inspirations, so I tried to recreate that, but with my own color schemes. I made them my own by making them smaller than a cup that would be used in everyday life and by finding new glaze combinations. This artwork is bout who I am because I'm not the biggest person in the world, but I'm unique in a raw sense that I'm very honest, kind of like how the clay body is showing on two of my cups. I encountered only a few problems, such as cracking or handles falling off, but I was able to create three cups by the deadline that were irresistible looking. I believe that this piece was fired in a kiln fire. Adam Silverman applied the glaze by pouring/dripping the glaze over the sides and allowing it to run and make the streaks. I really like the contrast between the dark body and oatmeal glaze. It makes the piece stand out. The glazes in our class are very dry, but if we had good glazes, we could probably do this a lot more than we do. This piece was fired in a naked raku fire. A naked raku fire is when slip is applied to the pot before it is placed in the raku kiln. The slip cracks and breaks apart during the firing and is chipped off after to reveal a blackened crackle pattern. After this, they applied either water colors or very thin glaze so it was see through. I like that you can see through the glazes and the crackling makes it look aged. We could have raku fires, but not at school. |
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May 2016
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