My Final Piece.

 

This is my resolved piece for the Drawing, Design, Translation project.

 

Really not a fan of the blue glaze; it's far too bright. I thought I would come out much paler and subtle. However, the ginger inside has a nice textured effect.

I think brushing the glaze worked well for this piece because it links back to the painterly feel of my drawings, but I'll probably be spraying in future!!

 

For the next project, I want to abstract the form so it's less 'house'-y but also give it a more personal touch, concerning whoever's 'house' it is.

 

 





Glazed Samples.

My samples fiiiiiiiiiiinally came out of the kiln but getting them back was a bit of a shock!!

 

I am well aware of the fact that they are horrifically ugly (!!), but I did this quite on purpose. I applied every glaze I had made to each piece to see how it worked next to other glazes, how it looked on a 3D piece and how it reacted on a larger scale. This made it easier to rule out which glazes I don't like and which ones don't work well together. (Also, that I need to work on my glaze brushing skills!!)

 

 



Drawings

Here's a couple of pages from my first sketchbook. These were initial drawings from my inspirations:

 

 

The aim was to explore a variety of drawing techniques, styles and materials.

Final Piece Planning.

 

So after trying lots of different things and making loads of samples and maquettes, I've started making my final piece...

These line drawings are my inspiration. They are drawings of my housemates' family homes that I then try to re-create, having never been there.

 

 

This is the maquette of my final piece...

 

 

... translated into thick slabs of Porcelain.

 

I chose to glaze the outside and inside two different colours so that viewers would want to look inside the piece. This will be coming out of the kiln tomorrow (finger's crossed!!) so I don't have any photos yet, but these are the colours I'm hoping it will come out like...

 

Outside: Emmanuel Cooper 'Bright Turquoise Glaze' (#392)

 

 

Inside: Emmanuel Cooper 'Shiny Ginger Glaze' (#398)

 

 

Drawing, Design, Translation.

Can't believe how busy third year is!! I literally haven't had time to update anything on here until now.

 

So I've been doing a project called Drawing, Design, Translation... Pretty much what it says on the tin. My deadline is next week Thursday and I've got to say, for once, I'm actually feeling pretty optimistic!! All of my samples and my final piece went into a glaze firing on Friday so they'll be out tomorrow and I CANNOT wait to see them.

 

Until I get photos of them, here's a quick update of what I've been making in the past 6 weeks:

 

The glaze samples came out!! The top row are oxidation and the bottom row are reduction fired.

 

Maquette making.

 

 

Adding the 'cauliflower' decoration. I liked this but feel it makes the pieces too 'pretty'. I don't want it to look like moss growing on a house.