Unit 1:
Face-
Stamp-
Painted Item-
Plan:
Roll out the tube of clay
- Smush down the top to become like a stamp
- Add a line to the swirl on top
-Make sure to score and slip so it stays
- Add fun details if wanted!
Plan: :
- Roll a ball from my wedged clay
- Then, start to mold my facial shapes
- Add eyes and eye brows
- Certain features require slip and scoring (mouth)
- Smooth the surface to the best of my ability
Plan:
- Cut some clay from my wedged clay
- Roll into a ball
- Start to form a pinch pot
- Once the pinch pot is complete, push edges out to make wider
- make a small peasce if roilded clay cylindeer
- After it has dried some more, paint the waves and lines with underglaze
- Lastly, fire and glaze
For my painted item, I chose to make a ring dish. I feel medeocure about how it turned out because I feel I could have made the strawberries darker and less transparent. Also, the way I painted with the black, I don't like that much. I wish I had done it differently.
My face went very well for me, considering it was one of my first projects. I enjoyed building with the clay and making it look funny. The eye holes were deep and with pocked and eye dots inside, making sure to score and slip them to stay. Also, adding thick eyebrows makes the eyes pop more. If I were to do it again, I would make sure that the face had a normal face shape. I feel I made it to round and tried to get some reference photos as well.
The stamp went okay; however, it took me a few attempts to get the stamp to look how I liked it, and now it doesn't have an even aspect to it, and I dislike that. I decided to do a swirl because I believe that it can make a pretty stamp in the clay.