Whew! I think I got everything up, now. Hope there's nothing missing. Pictures aren't terribly good, as a whole - my iPod isn't the best picture-taker, apparently. I'll try and get some better ones up in the future, and some in-progress shots so you can see how lovely they look as a mass of squishy dirt on the wheel xD Maybe I can even get someone to take a video of the throwing process. That'd be kinda cool.
Choice Project Paragraph:
This is a wheel-made bowl 2 1/4" tall by 3" wide. It has a wide mouth, and a deep body with a flared-out base. The footring is shallow on top, while the bottom is unevenly carved so that it goes from deep to very shallow; in contrast, it's fairly even in width and depth along the outside and top. Done in Shadow Green, this bowl's glaze is of uneven thickness and opacity. The outside has a thin coat with thicker splotches that have run to pool along the footring. The inside has an overall thicker coat, with one side and part of the other coming out much darker than the rest. The rim glazed very thin, and like my Bowl, the glaze has a handful of pockmarks dotting the inner and outer surfaces. With a form that allows it to be used as either a cup or a bowl, the unpredictability of a glazing's result is clearly demonstrated in this piece's sporadic drips and splashes of darker color. I apologize for the lack of pictures, but the uploader thingy isn't cooperating at the moment. I'll try and get them on next wee These are extra projects that are not required to pass the class, but came out anyway. Since I"m on a bit of a time-crunch to get this here blog updated before Friday, I'm sticking with the necessities, paragraph-wise. After the quarter ends you should start seeing more regular updates, plus the details for these little critterthings. So, enjoy! A bowl, glazed in purple and dark green; it turned a pastel-ish blue where they overlapped.      My favorite glaze-job by far. You'd have to see it in person, as it hardly shows up here, but it's this beautiful green-teal and blue, with the blue looking either crystalline, like a crowded starscape, or both. It's from dipping in Turquoise, then painting over it with Sand.   A planter pot I made for Mom. No, the hole is not an accident, it's so that the water can drain out; the notches in the footring are so the water can flow away from the pot. The outside body is a bad paint-job, sand over turquoise over sand over turquoise; the inside is turquoise over sand; and the rim is a dip in dark green (not Shadow). Ms. H likes the flowy look of the inside, and I have to agree with her, though the dark border where the green met the sand is my favorite part of the coloring.     I hate rewriting >.> Blasted thing *Punts*
Anywho. Long story short - 'cause I don't want to rewrite all that right now; I've already forgotten the details - once the Turqoise was thinned and I'd cleaned up after the Wheel Altered glazing-fiasco, I applied the base coat of glaze. I painted it on, since it was a tad watery, though it only needed two coats. It now rests on the WIP shelf in the glaze room, waiting to have the Sand painted over the Turqoise and for the bottom to be wiped off. My Wheel Altered has been bisqued, and will be glazed tomorrow/Friday. Actually, I was going to do that today after school, with the intent of replicating the cloudy-starry-space-scape look of a small bowlet I made for Mom, by painting Sand over dipped Turquoise.
However, there isn't much Turqoise left in the bucket, and I had to take a cup and pour it on. It was really thick, and the result wasn't very pretty and WAY too thick, as evidenced by how much work it was to take clean the glaze OFF again X_x So, off it came back into the cup, which I'd filled with water to thin out the Turquoise a bit; I figured I might as well put what I could back into the mix, so as not to waste any, or at least not as much. Anyway, it's now back in my locker, sitting there drying and awaiting my return on the morrow. I'll make a new post for the actual paragraph and final piece.     First Plate Paragraph This is a plate thrown on the wheel, and is 1/4" tall by 8 1/2" wide. A little lopsided and somewhat uneven in shape, it has a low lip and raised, slightly domed center with a prominent groove between them. The base is rounded down, with a light out-carving between the lip and the base. The final glaze is a swirled-together mix of matt dark turqoise and semi-shiny dark blue, with "bald spots" interspersed along the rim. The dark, matt glaze finish shows off the shape of the plate, and the "bald spots" draw the eye with a light-on-dark effect. Just finished this today, so I haven't used it yet. Don't know how well it'll work, practically speaking, considering how lopsided and un-flat it is. Guess we'll see, eh? And oh, look! A sneaker. How lovely.    My Tall Project paragraph:
This is a Tall Cylinder thrown on the wheel, 3 1/8" tall by 2 3/4" wide. It has a gentle slope from mouth to base, with a somewhat narrow, crisply-carved footring. The glaze is Shadow Green, with a watery semi-transparent coat on the lip and a light, almost teal-esque hue just below; from there, it quickly darkens, and appears nearly black where it has pooled along the footring. The natural variation in the glaze as it runs down the project lends elegance to the otherwise simple shape and glaze-job. This one I haven't used much, although I did store some Jojoba-and-lemon-essential-oil mix in there once. It's good for the skin, including acne.       My Wide Project paragraph:
This is a bowl made on the wheel, measuring 6" wide by 2 1/2" tall. The lip is almost twice as wide as the base, which pinches sharply inwards and down to a shallow footring. This piece was glazed in Shadow Green, with an overall coat of intermediate thickness and large patches of darker color on the inside. The glaze has pooled along half of the footring, and the lip has an overall thinner coating than the rest of the bowl; very small pockmarts dot both the inside and outside surfaces. The form and smooth texture makes this piece functional, while the variation in the glaze draws the eye. As a side note, I've been using it to eat with. Mostly ice cream, but hey, it's the perfect size! | Kelsie G.Nothing fancy. Right. Can-do. One thing to know about thine author? I suck at consistent blogging. Or journaling. Whatever you want to call it, I've never been good at it. Le sigh. ArchivesJanuary 2011 Categories |
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