Month: October 2018

Comparative Study

For my final clay form of my project when I got surprised with two chocolate lab puppies I began making a pinch pot. When I was creating the pinch pot the clay kept cracking and it became uneven. I was trying to make the pinch pot fairly large so I could put the puppies in them but it did not turn out how very well. I thought maybe I could start making it as a coil pot so that I could really control the circumference of the laundry basket but I realized that was going to take a pretty long time. I later came up with the idea of making the laundry basket out of four slab sides to create the dimension of a square-ish shape. I cut out the slabs and it actually turned out better than I expected, the sides were clean and it was just as wide as I wanted even though I didn’t measure it before I put the slabs together. I am now starting to shape the dogs to attach them to the laundry basket. Shaping the head is pretty easy but I still don’t know how to make the noses of the dogs. I plan on going on youtube to find good techniques to make the dogs noses look cute just like they were when I was surprised with them. Over the two dogs I plan on making a thin blanket like they are hiding but then their heads poking out.

 

Throughout these two weeks I have been working the three different forms I have to create for my story of when I was surprised with the gift of two chocolate lab puppies hidden in a laundry hamper. I decided to make a sketch as one of the forms of when I found Amis and Samson (the puppies) in a laundry basket that my mom put them in to surprise me. I did not really know how to draw a dogs face so I used the artistic behavior Artists Research. I looked up videos on you tube of how to draw a dog and did my best trying to apply that to my drawing. I drew two different drafts so far and I plan on creating a better final drawing when my clay form of the story is in the kiln room. The clay form of the story is going to be a laundry basket with the puppies sticking their heads out of it while being covered in a towel. I began by creating a moquet and I under estimated how hard it would be to shape the puppies head but I figured it out. The towel over the puppies was really hard to create because the clay wasn’t the softest and it kept cracking. I got the clay wet and kept spraying it with water so it would not crack. I finished the moquet and it is now in the kiln. I don’t know what type of glaze I’m going to do yet so I plan on making some test tiles with the combination of colors I might use.