Unit 4 projects
Handles
Planning: Didn't find a reference photo, but I knew I wanted to make a cup with a flower handle.
Description of Building: I rolled out a slab and cut a bottom then put them together, then made a wavy handle and a flower on top.
Reflection: If I executed this better I think it would be cute but It wasn't smooth and when I got it back one of the flower petals was broken. So I didn't glaze it bc I didn't like it enough.
Use: As a mug
Next Level slab:
Planning: I found a photo of the coffee cup shape on Pinterest and really wanted to paint olives, so I did!
Description of Building: I rolled out a slab and cut top and bottom circles, scored and slipped then painted on olives and after fired glazed.
Reflection: I really like this piece even though I accidentally painted the olives in under glaze . Unfortunately there are little holes in the glaze on the bottom which I am not sure how that happened.
Use:I originally was going to use if for a coffee mug, but since the holes prob just a dried flower vase
Series of 4
Planning: I found a picture on Pinterest of a bunch of fruit cups, bowls and dishes and I thought they were really cute so I made a set of 4!
Description of Building: I made a Melon bowl, pear dish, pomegranate plate and FIg dish. The Melon I just made a large pinch pot and shaped into a bowl, the pear was just a cut out slab I made a lip on, Same with the fig and pomegranate dishes.
Reflection: My favorite is definitely the pomegranate its a perfect size for my breakfast, I don't love the colors of the fig and the pear isn't the cleanest but the melon is cute!
Use: For eating or just dishes!
Lidden Box:
Planning: I saw a ceramic couch jewelry box on Pinterest and really liked that but wanted to make it cooler so made it striped and the lip of the lids swirly.
Description of Building: I cut and rolled out all the pieces I needed then scored and slipped and under-glazed.
Reflection: I really liked this piece, it was just very hard to paint and glaze the inside and I messed up on the dimensions and lip of the lids so they don't really fit.
Use: A jewelry box organizer.
<---Master artist:
Planning: I love Pablo Picasso, so I wanted to do another piece of his so I looked around and found his Sardines painting and really liked it.
Description of Building: I just made a pinch pot then cut fish out of a slab and carved.
Reflection: I like it, I think it looks pretty similar I just think I could have painted it a little better.
Use: As a bowl or dish for stuff.
<---Poem response
Planning: My poem was about starts, the moon and the night sky so I new i was gonna scraffito moon and stars and a sky.
Description of Building: This was my first wheel piece! I made the bowl on the wheel then scraffitoed it and painted it with opalescent glaze.
Reflection: I like this piece even though the B-12 is kinda hard to carve and I think I should have painted it colors.
Use: Bowl