Typically, cereal and milk are combined in a bowl with no separation. For my food specific project, I created a ceramic bowl to separate the cereal from the milk to keep it crunchy while it sits in the bowl. I, personally, enjoy my cereal crunchy and not soggy. Soggy cereal has no flavor and is more like oatmeal.
These works were made by wedging two colors of clay together and then creating the vessels on the wheel. After they became leather hard, they were trimmed so the two colors would show, instead of the dark slip overpowering and creating a dark vessel. The top two pictures are my creations while the bottom two are professional pictures.
For this assignment, I used the wheel to create not only the vessel, but the lid as well. To make the lid hollow, I hand trimmed it because it wasn't possible to wheel trim it with such a small top. The lid that i made was a completely covering lid without a flange. This form could hold many different things, including liquids. I don't have a specific use for this vessel.
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. This piece is by Vesna Jovanovic, a Chicago based visual artist. I wanted to post this piece of pottery because of the abstract look to it and for the wrought iron banister look that it has. I think she used the wheel for the main vessel and then attached coils after it became leather hard. These vessels were created by an unknown artist. I wanted to share them because they are using three types of materials. the tops are made of wood, the center is blown glass, and the base is ceramic. I believe they threw the bottom on the wheel, the center was blown, and the top looks like they are sanded and burnt pieces of wood.
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May 2016
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