Heads

This piece by Ellen Blomgren is pretty neat. I love the concept behind it, and i can only imagine how cool the inside of the head is from this angle. The face doesnt look too right, i think the eye brows could be push out a little more, but that doesnt take much away from the overall piece. If i were to continue down the sculpture route i would definitely look to pieces like this for inspiration. Something with a little more meaning that the typical head, but i would try to work more detail into the face and hands.

Slab/totems

Now i don't necessarily like this piece, but i think its a good building block for what I might want to do in the future if i choose to create larger and better totems than the one i did. Itd be fun to make the faces and animals look more realistic while keeping my style in it. I enjoy the glaze used on these

Bowls

These 2 bowls by Cresek Studios have very interesting lips. I like the bumps created and the use of different glazes on them to make them really stand out. This would be interesting to try and I wish I would have in a few of my bowls. 

bowls

Deborah Schwartzkopf Thrown on the wheel and hand built Elegantly done with the Ivory glaze and a touch of color. the shape makes me think of a gravy dish but turly id love to have soup out of one.

http://artaxis.org/ceramics/shaw_andy/andy_shaw/bowls(2)(2).jpg

The bright white are just the begining of the brilliance of this set the texture in the structual lines on the outside of these bowls adds all the class with a modern style.



Kristen Kieffer  These stamped bowls with earth tones look almost like the came from India or Persia. I would very much like to try more in the way of stamps.

bowls...

I like Paul Mathieu's bowls because the way he made and painted were detail and complimentary to each other, especially the way the lips of bowls are jagged. The first bowl made me think about a being in a flower garden. The second bowl made me, in a funny way, think about a broken egg.

The third picture features a bowl from 1486 and 1582. The scene presented in the bowl is based on a story from Metamorphoses (III: 138-252) where the figures are based on Marcantonio Raimondi. I liked the chosen colors contrasted with each other to give a sharp look. The bowl in the fourth picture is from around 1520 and was created for a customer who wanted hero and heroines of ancient times. I liked the soft and smooth colors, which gave a gentle and heroic look.

Assignment 3

Historic and contemporary bowls

Tenth-century (Five dynasties) green ware bowl and stand carved with lotus petals, unearthed at the Huqiu Pagoda in Suzhou.
 I really like the detail that was put into this bowl and the outside thinking that when into it's uniqueness.

Aztec Bowl.
I find this bowl interesting because of all the detail that went into either the inlay or glaze.

Contemporary

This is a Portuguese bowl. I really like the simpleness to it but yet the unique design. 

Historic & Contemporary bowls

Historic

This is a tea bowl by the Japanese, dated back to 960. I find it pretty impressive that bowls like this made from so long ago look so uniform and good.

Here is another tea bowl by the Japanese, dated back to 1516. This one is quite unique and different from the previous. Rather then being thrown on the wheel, this one was molded by hand (of which I especially like).

                                                                       Contemporary

This thrown bowl by Masayoshi Oya I found interesting because of the small, thin bottom on it compared to how wide the bowl is. Also, to see how thin the bowl actually is.

This bowl by Michel Conroy is very interesting and cool. The bowl was thrown and also assembled. I find it interesting because usually when I think of a bowl, I think of it being circular, rather with this one it is just different.

Amanda Bury-Assignment 3 Post

Historic:

 Tea bowl, ca. 1575
Tanaka Chôjirô (?), (Japanese, 1516–?1592)
Japan
Rough clay covered with a dull black glaze; 

three spur marks of iron supports (Raku ware)

-This piece is hand built not thrown, I found its old and rustic look and its uneven rim, looking almost purpose-full to be very interesting. 

Monochrome bowls, 1st century A.D.
Roman; From Syria
Opaque cast glass

-These pieces are glass not clay although they look very deceiving. I liked that they were all different sizes but held the same basic curve, foot and lip shape, this makes them look like a set.

Contemporary:

Kristen Kieffer / Small stamped bowls, stack
Title: Small stamped bowls, stack
Artist: Kristen Kieffer
Date: 2009
Technique: Thrown & Altered

-I REALLY like Kristen Kieffers stamping on these bowls. I was a little adverse to do any sort of slip work, or altering of any sort this first bowl assignment, however, i think after seeing this i would like to try and do some stamp work with the next assignment of 25 bowls.

Deborah Schwartzkopf / Pouring Bowls
Title: Pouring Bowls
Series Title:
Artist: Deborah Schwartzkopf
Date: 2012
Technique: Wheel Thrown and Handbuilt

-These pieces threw me off a little bit, i just thought why would you wheel throw these in the first place? Why not just hand build them. However i suppose for the sheer fact of time efficiency and evenness of curves and thickness wheel throwing the bottom half of these then handbuilding the top part would work best. I just found these interesting, i did also find myself asking why one would need 3 pouring bowls. Seems like a lot of gravy to me. =P

gunmetal glaze

I enjoy this piece by Patrick Hornsby. I'm not really sure why. It's so boring, and kind of stupid, but it stayed in my brain after I looked at it, so it must be doing something right for me. The colors are kind of hypnotic. I appreciate this thing's uselessness. It's like, "Hey, I'm just a thing existing. You can take a picture of me if you want." If this was in a movie, it would be a portal to another dimension.

tea cup of Kristen Kieffer

I'm tea drinker, that why I love tea cup. I like the way Kristen Kieffer decorate her cup. that make me feel like Im enjoying my tea with nature. She use cool color to make my eyes feel calm to look at it and it make the cup more nature.

Mark Pharis post number 2

I really like the cups Mark Pharis has made from what I have seen because they were unique and not to the norm of what people see as a cup. He makes his own shapes and you can really tell that he is not just trying to copy something that he has seen before but rather that he is putting his creativity from his mind into his clay.

http://www.harveymeadows.com/exhibitions/gill/gill/thumbnails/John%20Gill%20Platter%206_t.jpg

I really have appreciated  John Gill's Art work! I like how he shaped the mold of the Plate and had it add more to his design.
- Jacqueline Musser

Kristen kieffer cups by Victoria Shamrell

In these cups I love the way that Kristen Kieffer decorates them. Each of her cups are different but yet look cohesive. The way she uses different imagery like the rabbit or the flower make the cups stand out. But not just the main images are what makes these cups so great the little details she put into them is what makes them great. On each of the cups are little veins that branch out and they seem like a trademark on a lot of her work. The handles on the cups are amazing to, she put so much time and effort to carefully sculpt them and make them look beautiful. Besides looking beautiful they look strong and able to fully support that teacup when it has tea in it. At least in two of the cups it seems she like using pastel color rather then just the plain colors.

Tara Wilson

I like Tara Wilson's cups because the shape of them seems similar to what I was trying to do, originally with this project. I first wanted to make cups that fit to my hand, or were molded to a hand, rather than the traditional, straight edged cup. The way that these cups curve in at the middle, where a persons hand would rest, looks like a comfortable shape to  hold. Also the overall shape of the cups is very pleasing to the eye, they are not bottom-heavy, there is lift between the bottom of the cup and the surface that it sits on. The cups are also very aesthetically  pleasing because of the curves and soft edges. There are hardly any, sharp angles, so the cup looks comfortable to hold and look at.