Ceramics midterm

Pottery

This is my pottery cat and i really liked making this piece because of the difficulty ofs size. The process was starting from the bottom to the top.

So first i started with the lower half. I made the lower body with a big square slabs of clay and then carved off the pieces i do not need also hollowing out the inside. Then i got another square slab and scored and slipped it on the top of it and hollowed out the inside aswell so it doesnt blow up in the kiln.

It ended up blowing up anyways on the butt area so i just super glued it back together.  If i could redo this i wouldve glazed it all black with yellow eyes. It wouldve looked cooler because i think it wouldve. Theres no hidden message for this project, i just like cats.

This was my biggest project and ill attempt more but even this was really challenging and took me a month and a half. To combat again my clay drying and cracking, i kept it on plastic bags with a litle bit of water to keep ot moist throughout the weekends and winter break. That worked out well, but the clay did harden up just because its been cooperating with me scuplting it for so long si i think thats normal.

Swcond project

This piece started off as a bog slab too and i used coils for the arms and legs and made triangles for its spikes. I want to glaze it the colors of yoshi from mario. Hopefully we have those glazes, if not, im sure i can make them either way.

Im happy with the project overall but i wish that i couldve sandpapered it more to make it so smooth. It cracked on the head so i want to smooth that out with alot of glaze to cover it. I wish i redid this project so i xould add more slab to the face and give it some more details, like making eye sockets, goving it a smile and bigger cheeks, and just addingore texture basically.

My inspiratuon came from mario game because yoshi is super cute. Theres no special meaning for this project, i like the ge mario 64 and yoshi is really cute. I played that game when i was little alot and they made so many different versions like mario kart but the original is still the best.

I think this project is pretty cool so far since i havent glazed it yet, and id have to glaze it alot using coats and coats of glazes since the clay i used was terracotta. Terracotta requires alot of coats of glazes because ots a red clay and you dont want any of that red showing through your glazes.

Third project

This is my third project. Its a wall tole hanging that i made as my forst project with claire. We worked on it together so it was very easy to make and very simple. It started out as 5 flat slabs and we just etched in designs of a tree. The outcome was very pleasing and the color choices came from the way we think they should be.

 We added holes into the piece in the end to insert strings to be able for it to be a wall hanging. I enjoyed making the small designs like the leaves, birds, flowers. I liked that it had alot of detail instead of just being flat tiles. The colors we used were many, which were red, yellow, orange, blue, turqyoise, victorian red, pink, chrome green, teddy bear brown, lemon.

 I like how the colors came out to be so bright and we didnt even need to put a gloss coat since the colors were already shiny and bright. The meaning of this project is that nature is so beautiful and sgould be respected for what it is and be depicted in its natural state, not touched by humans. 

Were taking up all of the forests and destroying the homes of animals rhat live in that area were chopping down. Basically save the forest.

If i could redo this piece id measure everything out versus cutting square flat slabs and eyeing the meaurements to be closest to exact squares. Id use a ruler and stuff and a sharp xacto knife versus the edge of a ruler. Id also smooth out the ridges on the end to give more of a smooth texture so its not sharp on the ends.

Painting midterm

Midterm 5 projects
My first project was a pair of ballet shoes. The principles of design used unclude: contrast, showing value in the lightness and darkness of shading. Movement, depicted by the lines and details that make your eye move around the whole drawing. Emphasis, drawing attention to the middle section of the drawing at first. Its the first place your eyes look at.

The elements used are: value, (shading) line (which defines the principle of movement) texture (details to make realistic)

My second project was a dragon type zebra peacock animal thingymajigger. The principles used for this piece were: contrast in colors, movement with alot of lines and patterns, rhythm depicted by harmony of color choices and patterns used, and balance that shows the piece flows because of the artangement of the whole composition. Overall process took about two weeks but it was fun and i really like shading because it makes pictures pop from depth.

I know the paper is kind of torn in half but the elements include : texture because of the realistic deatils, color because of the varieties chosen, texture because of the dragons body and scales. Overall process was very time consuming because of all the deatils but i ended up being really content with it anyways even if its torn.

My third project was this panda reading a comic book in a tree. 

The principles of design are: movememt because of the lines used to create the project that make your eyes move around the puece, proportion because the comic book is not bigger than the panda, and the tree is also the right size in comparison, emphasis on the pandas face, and balance because neither half of the piece overpowers the other. The elements are: line,form,texture, value. Line in the lines used, texture to show deatils in the fur and bark, value showing contrast, and form because its a 2-D piece. Overall process took a while because of all the lines  i had to make with a paintbrush that was tricky to use because i dipped it in ink which was my first ink painting attempt.

This is my fourth project and the principles are balance because the piece is even, proportion because the otters and fish compare to eachother and the whales are further in the background, and movement with the way the water flows. The elements are color, because i used color, value to give some depth woth lightness and darkness, and texture to show that the watee is flowing. Overall process was really quick because its just a bunch of blue colors with some animals.

My last peoject is a dog sleeping on toilet paper because dogs like tpilet paper i guess. The principles are: proportion because the tp is in comparison to the dog, emphasis on the dogs face, contrast with colors and shading. The elemnts are: texture because of the fur and tp, value because of the depth of shades, color because theres color, line because of the lines on the tp. Overall process was fairly quick and im happy with the outcome.

Doge (painting)

I drew this for my painting class and it was done with watercolors, watercolor pencils, and ink. Since the watercolor palete i was using only had primary and secondary colors it was fun creating all the different shades of colors in the whole piece.