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.

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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.

Tara Wilson

I like Tara Wilson's unique style of creating jugs. It is simple but attractive.

Amanda Bury Assignment 2 Post- Tara Wilson

The first thing I noticed while looking at Tara Wilsons work was that a great deal of her pieces shown on your website all had the same "feet" on them. Many of her cups and pouring vessels all had the same four little feet on them. My first thought was that this must be something she did to tie pieces together, to make them belong with eachother. I then thought about how the pieces without the feet seemed different somehow, they didnt seem quite as alive, I came to really like the peices with the four little feet, it almost seemed as if they could walk off on their own if they wanted to. I attempted my own adaptation at feet in a couple trial runs while doing this project but none of them panned out.