Our assignment was to create a Frankenpot but rather than just create a Frankenpot, we decided to make a Frankenstein Frankenpot. The ideas between how a Frankenpot is made and how Frankenstein was created in a novel were relatively the same. Each was made by taking different parts and connecting them together. To create the main vase shape, Faith made the base as well as the middle and I made the head. Faith connected them together, she also made the hands with little fingernails and the scar with stitching by the eye. I made the facial features (eyes and nose), along with the other cuts. We both made and added texture to the hair. When glazing our Frankenpot we used the colors; italian straw mixed with clear glaze, scrap black, metallic brown, red, green, and yellow. Faith glazed the inside of the vase as well as in the nose, in the eyes, in some cuts, the texture on the hair as well as between the fingers on the hands all of this was a scrap black color. She glazed the body (bottom, middle, as well as the head) italian straw (with clear glaze to try and lighten it for a more skin toned color), she also glazed the hair and eyes metallic brown. I glazed the cuts with red and around them green and yellow, which did not show up as well as hoped. It turned out to be more of a subtle coloring, but thats fine.
Through this project we gained new skills as well as strengthened the skills we already had. We learned how to connect multiple projects, work and collaborate with a team, how to create vases that fit together, the best way to glaze different projects, and how the glazes can be lightened.
The specific design and art elements used would be; form, space, color, texture, contrast, as well as proportion and scale. Contrast is used to make certain aspects of our Frankenpot stand out. Such as using black as the inside and a lighter color, italian straw, on the outside. Another is the yellow and green around the red cuts.
Through this project we gained new skills as well as strengthened the skills we already had. We learned how to connect multiple projects, work and collaborate with a team, how to create vases that fit together, the best way to glaze different projects, and how the glazes can be lightened.
The specific design and art elements used would be; form, space, color, texture, contrast, as well as proportion and scale. Contrast is used to make certain aspects of our Frankenpot stand out. Such as using black as the inside and a lighter color, italian straw, on the outside. Another is the yellow and green around the red cuts.