Final Project
For my final project of the semester I made two projects. The first project is a small ice cream bowl for my dog, her name is Izzee but we call her sausage because she is chunky. The second project is a medium sized flower pot, it really didn’t turn out as how I liked but oh well. I forgot to take progress photos of my art work
SUshi Project
For my third project, I made a tray for sushi, a sauce holder, and a drink. I never had many problems with making this but I did sadly had an end of an tentacle break off but I didn’t have any other problems. This was one of my favorite projects, this semester.
Alebrije
For my second project in the 2nd semester we had to make an alebrije. An alebrije is a mix of animals, for mine I choose to do a bunny, racoon and snail mix. I ended up making a little x mark for his eye because he lost it with a battle with salt because he's part snail. The only real problem I had with this project was thinking what animals do use since we had to incorporate at least three features.
Tea cups
For my first project in the 2nd semester I made two tea cups and two little saucers. I had some trouble deciding what colors to choose for this project, but other than that I had a good time with them. I choose to use a teal blue/green and a grape purple color then I took a black and painted an outline of a bee and then a honeycomb outline on the cup itself.
Pinch Pot
I’m making a pinch pot into a opossum. I started by making a bowl, then I made a head/top of a skull and finally a small bottom jaw. Then for the small details I made teeth and sculpted them and finally a tail. I painted it with a grey under glaze and painted its tail and inside its mouth with a red/pink under glaze. Then I painted black rings around the tail and also two eyes and two ears with black under glaze. I have had a few minor problems with this project but I have also over come them. Such as my first skull I dropped it on the ground and had to make another one and a piece of the tail broke off but that just means that the opossum lost his tip of the tail in a fight! Then I put 3 layers of clear glaze over it. In the end some of the grey melted off but it’s okay it just means he’s a little bit of a dirty opossum.
Stamp
For my next project, I made two small stamps with the outline of the letter D for my last name, Dodd. Then for my next stamp I made an outline of waves. My first outline blew up sadly, but i got past it and made these.
Tile poject
For my 3rd project I made a tile project, I made the outline of a doughnut. I had some problems with this project, someone set their huge pinch-pot on one of my tiles when it was hard and I was about to fire it, but I worked around it and got it done.
Coil pot
For my 4th project I made a coil pot. I started with a small pinch pot then I added coils to meet the 8 inches requirement. I struggled with this project a lot but I’m truly happy about how this project turned out. I was inspired by Kate Kimmel’s dog vasses she makes.
Slab project
For my 5th project I made a box that is 4x4. For this project I didn’t have near as many problems. I still struggled a small bit but it worked out in the end, the outline of the box is a mushroom.
FinalPROJECT
For my 6th and final project of the semester I made a Crab pinch pot and made claw like hands as handles, made two eyes and then molded a little mouth on. I made this project in an hour and I didn’t have hardly any problems with it.