"Mathew Mug"

I'm so glad to be finally making other things besides my concentration! Check out this mug I made, it's not feminine! eh? eh? I call it the "Mathew Mug" because it's for my coworker (who's name is obviously Mathew.) Some people were wondering how I did the design. Well I made an concave stripe with my wooden rib while I was throwing it. And then I blow dried it a little bit and went back and made those thinner stripes with the corner of my rib. Then I blow dried it some more and took a random round thing that was in the tool bucket, (you can really use anything as a stamp if you're creative enough,) and made the circles. And I tried a new handle this time too. You can't see it very well in this picture but it's smaller and has an inward divit for your thumb. And its a little more squarish and a little less round than my handles usually are. And that's what I've been up to this week!

Showcase Reflection

The showcase was a total success! I'm so happy to be done with my concentration and almost done with the school year! I'm sad though. I love being in AP 3D cause our class feels more like a family and I have grown so much since the beginning of the year. Not only as an artist but as a person. I have learned how to be patient and hard working and to never be afraid to ask for h help from my class mates. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to be a part of this class!

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almost ready for the showcase!

almost all of my pieces are done and out of the kiln and i am very excited for the showcase next week!! this here is the finished product of my "striped tea set"

Almost finished!

Some of my things are starting to come out of the kiln and they're Looking good! I only have to trim some bowls I made and my portfolio will be complete:)

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striped tea set!

This week i got a LOT done!!! this is my finished teaset, ready to be scrubbed and fired. i finished it in two class periods! almost done with my concentration, but not quite yet.

cranking out the artwork!

hello, my name is Wayyyyyy Behind........but im catching up! I have been making like 2 projects a week and im gonna start coming in during 1st period. another thing im freaking out about is NAHS hours!!!!! i need to get those doneeeee!!!!!!!
but anyways on a brighter note, i threw an awesome teapot base yesterday and im REALLY proud of it. it's one of the biggest things ive thrown before and turned out exactly how i wanted. yay!

behind :(

hello..... this week im finishing my flower pots! I realized that I am way behind and am gonna have to make like one project a week! so time to start pumping out the artwork! I'm finishing carving the third lid for my flower pot set. here is the first two. the second lid didnt come out quite as a planned but i think it still looks alright. here it is.

some food for thought.

hello. this week i have just been working on my flowerpots. originally it was going to be a teapot but i didnt like the spout and so unattached it and sealed it back up to be a normal pot/cookie jar. my decision is to make two other ones just the same except for the flower on the lid is going to different. one is going to be a daisy, one is going to be a lily, and one id going to be a rose. then im going to wood fire them this spring. im very excited about it!
lately i have been noticing however,that theres a trend in my artistic style. not the appearance, bvut the way i make my art. i hardly ever use sketches. i always just go for it with a litttle idea in my head and then it always transforms into a whole other idea that sometimes had absolutely nothing to do with my original plan! This projecvt imworking on now is a hgood example of that. it also made me realize that that is what makes me a good artist----not because i have good skills (im not that great at throwing) but because i can make a mistake and totally build off of that. which i have done millions of times and it often brings me great inspiorations and ewnds up being one of my best poieces ever!

sorry my typing is awful righyt now but i had to do this in a hurry. love you all!

FLOWER POWER!

So as everyone already knows, my pieces are always hopelessly feminine! but whenever i accidentally end up making a piece that is too girly, i just contrast that with a glaze that is a little less so. Such as wood-firing. and it always works! i got my gold key for my sarah davis piece which i used that method on. (thats funny when i later found out that she was one of the judges) hehe. but anyways, this is my latest piece, a flower teapot. i have literally not made a teapot for over a year so my skills were a little rusty. I'm really proud of the lid, which is a completely functional fitted lid. however, im very dissapointed with my spout because not only does it look a little weird, but also its not very functional because i attatched it too low at the base and so when it is filled up with water, it might start to over flow. So, i think i am going to take off the spout and cover the mark with a slab and turn it into a lidded pot/jar. and then im gonna make two smaller ones to make a set. Although this project didnt turn out how i wanted it to, it still transfoprmed into a good idea in the end, which i love!

TEAPOTS

hey! this week im moving onto a new project, a teapot! one thing i love is playing with different shapes of a teapot. and of course, i still have to keep my concentration in mind and make the surface nature-y, sorta. here's a few images of teapots that i love! ^^

This week....

This week im working on a new project, a tea pot! i haven't made teapot in a while so im predicting that it's gonna take me a while.....especially the lid. but im envisioning a really funky one that's a little bit untraditional, yet still functional. This picture is of the last sake bottle i finished last class.

end of the week!

So its the end of the week and I'm glad that my finals are over. However, I can't deny that I'm a litle dissapointed in my self as far as my projects go. I didn't finish as much as I wanted to. But one thing that I'm really proud of is my sake set! Here is the finished product at thr greenware stage!

PS-I vote that our class do group critiques because doing one as a class will take a lot longer and less attention will be payed to each individual piece.

sake bottles and other stressful things.

This week i am working on my sake bottle. sorry the picture is sideways....it's pretty much finished to the greenware stage. im freakin out a little bit because i have to do one more project in under a week. EEEKK!!!

Sake Bottles!

This week im making sake bottles! they are traditional japanese bottles that are supposed to hold sake, a wine-type drink that is served hot. im super excited about it. here are some examples of some i found online.

I AM MAD.

NOTE TO EVERYONE: IF YOU MUST TOUCH THINGS ON THE GREENWARE CART, DO SO WITH SO MUCH CARE AND GENTLENESS THAT YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR CRADLING A NEWBORN CHILD. TOO MANY OF MY THINGS HAVE BEEN BROKEN, CHIPPED, OR JUST VANDALIZED IN GENERAL AND IM SICK OF IT. rawr.

but anyways I'm over it. And I am working on my bathroom set this week. its coming along pretty good except my throwing mojo is a little off this week. -_-

gave an art poster to my step-dad! (he's with LeafGuard Gutters)

candles!

so for my 3rd project i met a set of candles. i threw them on the wheel, just simple mug shapes without handles obviously. theyre each a little different, size and shape wise, but i tied them together with a design consisting of some type of lines on the surface and glazed them jade green! i like the way they turned out. in the picture here, i havent put the wicks in yet. I'm doing that tomorrow. I actually have 4 projects done and one more in the process. I have two pieces uploaded to scholastic, i have 2 jugs of eggnog in my fridge for friday, and the stress is finally being lifted off my shoulders as im finishing up this last blog....phew! :D

Empty Bowls!

sorry its late...i had absolutely no time to do it

sketches and epiphanies!

when i was working on one of my projects today i just started to think about something. Sketching is cool sometimes to organize your thoughts and to plan out the steps of a certain project. for instance, one of my projects for this month is a bathroom set (toothbrush holder, soap dish, and tissue box cover,) and i decided to sketch out a few different designs to put on them, along with steps of what i would do each day, so i could estimate how long it would take me. Well my other project is a set of vases. i had a couple sketches but this is the part where i think sketching can be thrown out the window. its a great feeling when something you envision comes to life, literally, through a sketch, but i think its an even more awesome feeling when youre working on your project and you get a sudden epiphany, a sudden cool idea that pops into your head. which is exactly what happened to me! i was just working on my vases when i got a little frustrated that i couldnt keep them centered. but then when i was finished i looked at it and thought the way that it was off-center looked kinda cool, kind of unconventional and a little modern and spunky? if you may. so i dramatized that by paddling one side of each of my pots to make them all off center in the same corresponding way. the flat side from the paddle is gonna have a flower design on it. anyways, that was my epiphany, that was my project, and these are my thoughts of the day. (:

next project.....

I have pretty much finished my cups to the greenware stage so now im moving onto the next prject.....hmmm. I was thinking something like a little bathroom set would be cool. it would include a toothbrush holder, a soap dish and maybe a tissue box cover or a paper cup holder (paper cups that you use to rinse after you brush your teeth.) OR maybe a couple vases.....i dont know, give me more ideas!the pictures are just for a reference.