Small project

For the small project I made a candle. 

•first I bought wax

•second I melted it down

•third I poured it into a mold

•fourth when it was dry I popped it out of the mold and carved in it

Final exam

-What was your favorite material that you used this year? Why do you like working with it?  

•My favorite material to work with was clay.  I like clay because you never know exactly how it is going to turn out once it is dry.  And you could just move it anyway you want to and make anything out of it.  Even thought it is hard to get it exactly how you want it.  And it might look differently when it comes out of the kiln.  And if you have any air bubbles or cracks it will explode from the pressure.  And it takes a while for the kiln to finish.  then you could either paint or glaze it. 

-What is your least favorite material to work with and why?  How did you deal with it, what didn't you like about it.  Please explain.  

•My least favorite material to work with was the apple for the land art project.  It was just a bad apple.  It was really juicy and it wasn't easy to cut it straight.  And also it turned brown really quick and kept breaking.  Once I got it in the position I wanted it would fall. It was really ugly once it was cut.  It was just really hard to work with and I would not do it again.  Maybe if I could an apple that was hard it would have worked.

 

-which project do you feel was least important in learning the concepts taught in the course?

•I think the texture/ pressure project was the least important.  2 of my 4 tiles exploded in the kiln. I guess I didn't get all the air bubbles out.  All I had to do was carve lines into clay.  and it didn't really teach me anything I'm sure a baby could do it, but it was fun to make though.

Repetition

•I made 2 bowls

•well I just made 2 bowls as put glass in them

•the glass is ugly but cool

•I like the dots around the rim of the smaller box

•I would change the glass

Marble drop

•I worked with Brandon.

•Our theme was the ocean.

•We came up with the idea because we thought it would be cool

•the most difficult thing was finding a way to get the marble drop to actually work and drop the marble in a cool/interesting way

•the marble goes down all the things then rolls off the star fish and lands in a shell.  We made our own tracks we used foam board and folded it in half and then slit the bottom.

•I would change my partner

•I a most proud of the painting on the outside of the box

Pressure/ texture

•i did a bunch of different designs with clay and used a lot of different textures. 

•I just wanted to make tiles again because my other ones exploded and I wanted to redo it but better. 

•I liked my designs

•I would change the colors

Relief

3 types

-low 

-high

-sunken

•My piece falls into sunken relief because I carved into it and it's sunken

•I used clay first I rolled it out then cut it into 4 big squares and then carved a flower in it then I put it in the kiln and half of it exploded and then I glazed the other 2 pieces 

Relief