For my second theme project I made a small vase and then glazed it with flowers. This might be considered complex in that it's glazing a scene or something on the project. I glazed it with a blue for the rain and sky, a dream green for the grass. There is black in the flowers and as their stem. The flowers are yellow, purple, and pinkish/red.
For my theme projects I decided to do "complex" glazes with simple projects. This is a small bowl that I glazed with triangles and lines. I'd considered this complex in that it takes a while to do and could be more considered "more complex" to just glazing one color. The whole thing is glazed with a clear over it. For my multi piece project, I made a small teapot. I made the bowl on the wheel as well as the lid and the spout. The handle is just a round ball of clay. I glazed the inside just a clear. I glazed the lid, spout, and handle black. The body and handle on the lid is a mix of colors. I used white, as a base, then a blue, shadow green, black, army green, and another blue. I put another coat of white on there to help the colors mix, not all of them showed up though. A close up to show colors. This is the double wall I made. I carved out circles in it and some of the circles are made to look like paw prints. The glaze kind of filled them though so it's hard to see. The color is just black with some white on it. I really like how the colors turned out. The glaze a ran a bit more than expected on the inside but not enough that it stuck to the shelf which was good. For my set of three, I decided to make nesting bowls. By the time I went to foot these, they were a little too dry and some were very thin on the bottom. I decided to just round them out more. When throwing the biggest bowl, there was some difficulties so it isn't as nice on the inside like the others but it works. For the glazing, all of the colors are the same except some have white on top to lighten it. I wanted it to become lighter as it went on. In the pictures I took you can't really tell that the colors are lighter as they go on. The littlest bowl is the lightest, the second bowl is a little lighter but it might have been a good idea to put another coat of white on it. The biggest bowl doesn't have any white on it, I wanted that to be the darkest color or the starting color. This is the frankenpot the group I was in made. It was glazed with different shades of blue and green then a top coat of white to make them all run and blend together. The glaze seemed to have been thicker in some areas than others, basically ran more in some places than others. It doesn't really have a foot. The inside is just a clear glaze. I really like the glazing on this. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
June 2016
Categories |