For my set art pieces I decided to make a beauty set. I have three pieces that are all marbled with glaze for a design. The colors in the marbling are all underglazes. They are blue, purple, and a maroon. The first piece is a small bowl that is flat that I created as intent to hold rings and earrings. The inside is glazed with blue grey glaze. The next piece I made is a taller cup like piece that is intended to hold makeup brushes. The inside is the same as the bowl and the outside is the marbled glaze. Underneath the marble I used white underglaze. My last piece I created is a flat piece of clay with an edge around the outside that is intended for me to set my straightener on. The top is the marbling and the side edges are the blue grey color. I will call this set the "Three Piece Beauty Set." I created this set using white clay using hand building techniques to make all three pieces. I then used underglaze on them and marbled them with shaving cream and underglaze. Then I fired them and used blue grey glaze and a clear coat of glaze to seal them. I made this set because I wanted to make pieces that I could use and that would not just sit around. At first I was going to make a set of plant pots but I can't keep plants alive and I couldn't find any ideas that I liked. I looked a lot for ideas that I wanted to create and could not find anything that I really wanted to make. I thought about what I needed and came up with a straightener holder first. Then I went off the beauty topic and knew that I needed something bigger to hold my rings and earrings, and a makeup brush holder. I looked online for pictures to inspire me, but once again I did not find anything that I liked so I created them without any inspiration. My goals for this set was to create something useful that all matched. I know that I reached that goal because I love how the marble turned out and how they are all similar with the technique and colors. I also will use these for the intended purpose because they turned out how I imagined them when I started. I learned that not every piece has to be something that you find online because some things you will not find and they will look exactly how you want them to in your head. I love how they turned out, because they look neat and now I have something to set my straightener on, something to hold my jewelry, and something to hold my makeup brushes. My set is going to be functional and it is decorative with the marble design that I used.
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This artwork piece is a sculpture of an octopus. The tentacles are on the bottom and the curve like swirls but the bottom is flat. The head is in the middle of the tentacles, and I gave it eyes and a mouth. It is glazed with blue caprice all over. I created my octopus by starting with a slab of white clay and I cut out the tentacles. I then made the head and put it onto the bottom part. Then I cut out the face and holes in the bottom by carving out clay bits. Then I fired it and glazed it, and then fired it again. I decided to make an octopus because when I was looking online for inspiration I saw a bunch of oceany things and wanted to do something of a sea creature. Then I seen the dolphin sculptures at sea world and thought that an octopus sculpture would go well with dolphins. Octopuses are such a cool creature because of how their tentacles just swarm freely. The picture in the top right is what inspired my sculpture. My goals for this piece was to create a sculpture that would look decent somewhere in sea world. I think that my octopus would be a good edition and I think that little kids would love to take pictures by it. I think that it is very cute and it makes me happy to look at. Throughout the whole process I just wanted to express my love for sea creatures and make a cute sculpture that would look great at sea world.
A new skill that I tried was glaze marbling with shaving cream. For research I first looked up pictures to see how it would turn out and what kind of piece would look good with the marbling. Then I watched two different videos that showed me what I needed and how to use the technique. Both videos showed very similar processes. First they both had newspaper or something put down to protect the table. The process was very simple and you only need a few things. The supplies needed are shaving cream, glaze (I used underglaze), suction tube thing to pick up the glaze, a stir stick to make the marbling design, your clay piece, something flat to make the shaving cream even, and a sink to wash off the shaving cream. On my first piece I tested I used my "M" from my relief tile. I used purple underglaze before I fired it the first time and then I did the marbling technique. I set up my area and protected the table with newspaper and then I got my shaving cream and put a good amount on the newspaper. I made it even with my blue scraper and then I used my squeezer thing to get blue underglaze out of the bottle and put it onto the shaving cream. Once I had enough glaze on the shaving cream, I took my stick to swirl around the glaze to make a marble design. Once I had my design I took my piece and rolled it in the shaving cream. Once it was all covered where I wanted the glaze to go I rinsed off the shaving cream. Then I let it dry, and fired it. After that firing I finished it with clear glaze and did a final firing. After that test piece I was going to do another test piece before I did my final piece. I used a cup like piece that I will use to hold jewelry. I really like how this one turned out. I started a bowl for my final piece and I used black underglaze and was going to use a white marbling. I did the process and when I went to wash it off, it didn't work and the glaze washed right off. I had another piece that I had not glazed to see if I could get it to work on that and it washed off that too. I was very frustrated and didn't know what I was doing wrong. I gave up and decided to use the "M" as my test piece and the jewelry holder as my final piece. With the pieces that it didn't work with, I glazed them with colorburst and still made them look pretty cool. After giving up with the technique I decided to give it one more goal with my set. I am so glad that I didn't give up because I love how the set turned out with matching marbling. I learned that sometimes new things are frustrating when they are not working out and you don't know what you are doing wrong. I learned to not give up and keep trying. I also had a lot of fun trying this technique and this project made me enjoy the class more. I am super happy with how the outcome of these pieces turned out and I am glad I found a fun technique to use on my set project.
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