mrhh

2012-01-18

Ceramics

For the 3 electives I picked Ceramics, Sculpture, and Visual communication.

The fisrt elective I a trying out, as you may be able to guess is Ceramics.

On the Friday before we started we were told to collect images of interesting shape and textures, and these are the pictures that I took on Friday and over the weekend.

Metalic objects..

A tap.

Rust

interesting shapes

I only uploaded the good pictures but I had a lot of fun discovering texture on this deer antler.

Texture and pattern..

I separated the last post from this because the amount of pictures that was on the last, to make it less confusing.

The nex thing we did in Ceramics is pattern making. Using the images that I had collected over the weekend I explored the textures and shapes that I had documented.

These are some of the pictures that I took through a View Finder that I liked.

I also made some patterns using black and white paper. I did not use a View finder for these but the pictures below are some of them.

This is what happens when you forget your Prit stick.. Chopping up sticky tape is a tedious and boring thing to do when you know you can be doing something more productive.

(After I chopped these tiny little pieces of paper up, Elean came along and told me that I shouldn't be making such tiny little things, wasted effort is what I show you above..)

2011-12-16

For the last week I was doing a lot of experiments with wax.

I made these model of my fingers by simpley getting a block of clay, puching my fingers into it to make a bit of a dent, and then pouring wax into that dent that was created by my finger. The fingers made a interesting elongated shape when I did this because I had pressed my fingers through the clay.

I also got my hand print by putting my hand into a half cooled down bit of wax.

This piece underneath, I made this with the left over wax from the finger models.
All I did was pour the left over wax onto a white doubled up A2 page, and everytime I pour the wax on the page, I pressed my hand against the melted wax to leave my hand print on it. It was quite sore but the result I quite like.

I also made a flower out of bundled up tissue paper and wax. My initial plan was to make a hand out of this but for the tissue paper is not strong enough to hold a shape before the wax hardens, I was not able to do this.

2011-12-10

Experimenting

As I was advised to leave the wire hand for now because of it's time consuming nature, I made a hand with a paper core, supported with wire and covered it with PVA soaked tissue paper.

Making the core and the support..

and cover it with the PVA tissue..

and I started experimenting exture on this..
As I was getting quite interested in using wax in pieces, I decided to poor some wax on this!

and for now my experimentation for this hand is done...

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On Tuesday I was back in the Ceramics workshop to fire my glaze my piece! To say the truth, I ended up not putting any glaze on it but I brushed on black and blue ink on it which gave it a very nice touch. These are the pictures I took..

..When it was fired for the first time..