Goals: 1. Skill Based: To understand and create a relationship with clay and its different stages, i.e. wet, leather hard, bone dry, bisque, and glazed. And also learn some basic firing techniques 2. Visual: To enhance your awareness of form and surface in utilitarian and sculptural ceramics. 3. Conceptual: To build on your basic knowledge of historical and contemporary ceramics from around the world and begin personal research.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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.
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