I think my best artwork this semester are my mushrooms I made because I really liked how they turned out and I used multiple glazes. I would like my box a lot but I would like to redo the sides because I wanted them a little straighter. And I would have like to made the cover have sides so the top would stay on still. What I have learned in ceramics is that you have to be very patient with kiln and clay. One thing I wish I was able to do is make some more little pottery things but I didn't have time.
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The multi-set I made were three mushrooms. I made mushrooms because I was inspired by these planting pots that looked like mushrooms and because I have a couple of mushroom posters in my room. I started out my using white clay and forming three stems for the base of the top of the mushroom hat. Than I formed plate like bowls for the hat and started carving designs into them. After fired I glazed them and used mutlipe colors. The final part was putting faces on which is my favorite part. The big idea of my artwork for me was to make what I had envision perfectly. My overall thoughts on my artwork is I really like them and definitely are my favorite pieces I have made.
For my small scale sculpture I had a hard time of what to make so I made earth. The reason I made this is because I was trying to show how we only have one small world and we need to take care of it. I envisioned this artwork to be somewhere were a lot of people would pass by like somewhere you could put it while driving by. Except much more bigger. I made it by putting two pots together and a forming a sphere after it got fired I used some water etching to make the outlines of the land and water. After I glazed and used the glazes "Olive Green" and "Tahiti Blue". I liked how it turned out but I would definitely try and make the sphere more round as much as possible.
The artist new skill I chose was "water etching" where you use mod podge or a special oil and etch a design on dry clay. The first two pictures were mine test pieces and the last two were my final ones. The supplies I used were white clay, mod podge and glaze. I think my test piece turned out the best but it definitely didn't turn out like it was suppose to. My second piece the water etching didn't show up at all and I think I did a couple more layers it would have. What I learned is that I need to put more layers of mod podge and to have a set design ready to do.
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