Better Glazed
This tile shows forms with the zipper and the pencil. It also shows texture with the zipper chain, I used a toy tire to make it. This tile shows the zipper half open so it shows movement like when someone opens up the zipper to their jacket. The stripes on the shirt in the jacket show lines and rhythm is also shown with the stripes. During the process of the project I was very successful because there were endless boundaries to what I could create. This tile is supposed to represent a jacket. It's glazed the best because I made the glaze was even and I used proffesional colors. I would make my other tiles more cleaner and refined.
My Favorite Tile
This tile shows shapes with the circles, I did this by pushing my finger into the clay. It shows formal balance because every circle and color for the circle is the same. It also shows rhythm with the circles. The lines that are between the circles are the same color and they are lines. The texture is smooth and bumpy at the same. It's smooth in the circle but bumpy if you run your hold hand across it. This is my favorite tile because I like how the glaze turned different colors in different elevations in the kiln. The blue and bronze looking color are the same glaze.
Mug
The mug shows high and low surface tension because the pencil is high and the zipper is the low. The zipper shows movement because it's half open. I used a burlap sack to show the texture of a jacket. I showed form by making the pencil and zipper 3-D. The mug makes me feel like I'm busy because I have the pencil in my pocket and I'm ready to work. I think it was successful because it came out as how I wanted. It's not perfect but it is still fine.
Ceramics Final Reflection
What was your favorite project? Why?
My favorite project would definitely have to be the tiles that we did in the beginning of the year. Some of them came out awful but most came out nice. It was a way to explore my creativity and the glazes. It also gave me an idea of what to do with my mug, bowl, and box. The tiles were like a little canvas with no limits. It also helped me understand the principles of design and the elements of art. I learn more by watching then by listening so when I did the weebly and explained it on the website it helped me understand.
What was the most valuable piece of information you have learned this year? Why was it the most valuable?
The one thing that is most valuable to me is Mr. McCray telling me to add texture or make it super smooth. I guess it was a way of him telling us to add more and not to make something one dimensional. It may have also meant to go above and beyond like with our sketchbooks. I had made a drawing of a spider and I thought that was all I could do but i could also have added shading, as he had told me. I will put it to use in the future by not making whatever I do one dimensional but going above and beyond.
What will you remember the most in 10 years?
I guess the one thing I will remember the most is what I could make with the clay. I thought I was going to be awful at this class but everything I made has come out decent. My glazing, however, as been a disappointment. I wish I had more practice with it and more time. I was usually taking a while to build my actual piece and then when it came to glazing I rushed. I guess I could use this expierence with time management and make sure in the future I space my time out correctly
What was your favorite project? Why?
My favorite project would definitely have to be the tiles that we did in the beginning of the year. Some of them came out awful but most came out nice. It was a way to explore my creativity and the glazes. It also gave me an idea of what to do with my mug, bowl, and box. The tiles were like a little canvas with no limits. It also helped me understand the principles of design and the elements of art. I learn more by watching then by listening so when I did the weebly and explained it on the website it helped me understand.
What was the most valuable piece of information you have learned this year? Why was it the most valuable?
The one thing that is most valuable to me is Mr. McCray telling me to add texture or make it super smooth. I guess it was a way of him telling us to add more and not to make something one dimensional. It may have also meant to go above and beyond like with our sketchbooks. I had made a drawing of a spider and I thought that was all I could do but i could also have added shading, as he had told me. I will put it to use in the future by not making whatever I do one dimensional but going above and beyond.
What will you remember the most in 10 years?
I guess the one thing I will remember the most is what I could make with the clay. I thought I was going to be awful at this class but everything I made has come out decent. My glazing, however, as been a disappointment. I wish I had more practice with it and more time. I was usually taking a while to build my actual piece and then when it came to glazing I rushed. I guess I could use this expierence with time management and make sure in the future I space my time out correctly
Bowl