The artist that inspired me was Caroline Slotte. She was born in 1975, and she lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Caroline Slotte attended college between 1995-1998 which earned her a bachelors degree in ceramics and glass. She uses second hand objects in her pieces. I enjoy her ceramic relief pieces the most. For these pieces she layers antique plates to carve landscapes. I like her relief pieces the best because they remind me of the plates my grandma and mom use for holiday dinners.
To learn figures we made miniature animals heads. I created mine to look like a Fennec Fox, which if you have never seen one has very large ears for the size of their small heads. Make this head for me was very challenging. I had the most trouble be able to get the large ears to stay up. The whole time sculpting this project I just wanted to finish because I just wasn't very inspired anymore. While my project was in the kiln one of the ears broke off, so to fix the fox I hot glued the ear back in place. Once I painted the over the ears you could hardly tell it had broken off. The one part of this project I enjoyed doing was painting the fox because painting help me enjoy the project more. I used acrylic paint, which is my favorite to use because it allows you to capture more details than glaze does. If I were to do this project over I of course would try to go back and resculpt the one ear that broke off because I feel like in the end I would have enjoyed this project more if the ears didn't cause me so much trouble.
Planning: During my planning I came up with the idea of doing a lady bug on a leaf. I thought it would be a good project to represent fall. I started out by using pictures found online to help me sketch my idea out. Once I got the right drawing I traced it onto my clay slabs. In Progress: The hardest part of the projet was beginnig my slab. I started by carving into my slab to make the leaf stand out, then I add to the carved out leaf to make the lady bug since thw lady buf was the focus point. Finished Project: This was the first time I had done a relief piece besides my mini project. The larger piece was a lot more difficult than the mini piece, but the mini piece helped me learn techniques. I think this piece was very succesful especially the leaf. The vibrant colors make the piece really pop. If I were to change anything in my piece I would redo the backround because it was suppose to be a shiney glaze, but it didn't work out as well as I planned. |
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