final piece

This is my abstract piece that I created, well part of it. It originally was a spoon which had a wave coming up out of it at the end but it broke in three places while firing the first time. I still glazed all three pieces but for some reason they only glazed fired the wave part so I was not able to glue all the pieces together like I had planned to. I hand built the entire wave part and I am really proud of the foam part that builds up on the edge of the wave. 

My idea for this was that I wanted to keep it abstract but still useful, which was why I had it connected to a spoon. I used three different glazes, two being crystlex and one just being a normal gloss glaze. I was really proud of the piece and still am even though it broke. I think the wave looks awesome and I hope I will get to glue all the pieces together eventually.

This is a bowl I created inspired by nature. I wanted to make the piece very simple and magical. I started with the bowl as a base and then hand built the leaves and scored and slipped them on to the bowl. I then went in with a pen tool and added the veins of the leaves and also the swirls coming from the bottom of the leaves on to the bowl.

I glazed the bowl using pastel blue and purple. I did not want to do normal nature colors, I instead decided to kind of make it look like watercolors. I really like how the glazing turned out, I think it has very magical vibes which was exactly what I was going for.

This was a piece that did not turn out at all how I hoped it would. I wanted to create it so it would look like a section of honeycomb but instead it came out looking like a chunk of nacho cheese. I started with a hexagon mode and then added texture using a stamp on the clay once it was fitted nicely on the mold.

I glazed the piece with a crystilex called Sassy Orange I believe and it honestly came out way more orange than I was expecting it too considering the color orange was in the title. I really do not like this piece and honestly will probably be throwing it out in the near future.

This piece is actually my favorite piece I have created all year. I started out with a flat sheet of clay and then draped it over a bowl mold and let the clay sit for a bit. Once the clay was a little tougher, I went in and just started to rip at the sides of the bowl to created the rough, organic edges it has. Then once the piece was bone dry, I took some red and purple under glaze and used a dry brush with little glaze on it to great the design.

Once the piece was fired the first time, I simple went in with clear glaze to create a nice shiny finish over the entire piece. Again, I am really happy with how it all turned out, I think it is a nice minimalist piece of art and it really reflects me as a person. 

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This is a piece I created using a mold. I wanted to keep the concept simple and minimal. I was inspired by Winnie The Pooh for this piece, it is one of my favorite stories/movies. I started out by wedging a ball of clay and then flatting it out on the slab roller. I simply then placed it over the mold, cut it to shape and then taped the mold on the table a couple of times for the clay to sink in to the shape more. Then I took a sharp tool to carve the letters into the clay,

For glazing, I used a deep yellow to color the wording and then just simple dipped my piece into the big bucket of glaze for a shiny finish. I really like how this piece came out, I think it is really aesthetically satisfying. I achieved making a cute Winnie The Pooh piece and I am quite proud of that.