Bowl

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These bowls were really fun to work on! Each bowl was a completly different process. 

The blue and red bowl was made on a wheel where you wedge the clay, center it, and then start building up.

The green and yellowish bowl was a pinch pot. I didn't like the pinch pot because it was very hard to make it even and neat.

The last bowl was paper maché with fabric, I used a dark red on the outside and a blue on the inside.

My favorite bowl was the kick wheel, the whole process was new to me and over all was just fun to make! 

Wood

Unconventional materials

So I don't have any pictures of this piece because it well wasn't good. I was given a red lace material. I decided to make a dragon out of wire and then put the red lace over it to add accents and color. In the process of making said "dragon" I cut my self bent multiple wires and struggled.... A LOT.  It was a fun project but in the end it ended up in the garage. (Where it belongs) if I had to do anything different I would have used a thicker wire. The problem was that it wasn't sturdy enough and the wires would bend when I was trying to bend another wire.. So after a week of preserving I couldn't overcome my struggles... DRAGON = 1... Alex = 0.  

If I had this project again I would give it as a group project. Give them more than one material to make a sculpture or bigger piece, kind of a challenge thing and see what they come up with! 

Pit firing pt.2

We started using clay, we made the shape and then let it dry out! We used spoons to get the piece as smooth as possible. Then we fired the piece and painted it with red clay. Then we wrapped the piece with different objects that will burn. Put that in a foil saggar and let it burn. 

This process is very unique and no one piece is alike. That's what makes this process special.

I liked the idea of this piece, if I would do it again I would put less stuff in the foil saggar. There fore the piece would hopefully be a little neater and less ugly. 

Pit fire pt. 1

Pit firing is a technique to make unique pieces of art. Artist wrap their pieces with anything that burns and wrapped in foil to create burn marks! Foil saggar is what you wrap the piece in, that holds the combustible items and traps the smoke to the piece. The designs that you create on one piece will be completely different than ones on an other. They will never be exactly the same. That's what makes pit firing so special. I tried to make a triangle pyramid but then found that the sides would look cool pushed out so that's what I did!

Form project