Ceramics Individual Project 

Fall 2017

For this individual project I decided to loom towards nature as my inspiration. Throughout the semester I created approximately 10 pieces from this idea, my final selection only included 5 pieces though that I thought were best fit and showed both realistic and abstracted representations on nature. The 4 pictures above show 2 pieces that I used for this project. The seashell is a realistic representation that used watercolor glazes to show pastel colors that one would see at the beach and the back at a hint of Mirror Blue to represent water from the ocean where one would find a shell this this. I added balls and strips of clay to add texture when you ran your hand over the piece. The second piece shown both realisticallyand abstractly represents flower forms. The lavender part of the figure shows more of the look of a flower from above but the out parts hold itself more as a bowl would. The blue flower on the outside more obviously shows a realistic flower attached. Another piece I worked on for this project was a round sphere that was glazed with blue specs to it. I wanted this piece to represent more of the world and the water within the earth. Wee always see water in droplets and I wanted to recreate that idea in my own way. A smaller piece for this project came about through the idea of trees. The cylinder was glazed in a brown tone, but the texture carved into the clay resembles the lines on bark. Green vines were added to mimic the color of leaves and how they come out farther from the tree via branches, thus why the vines come out further than the bark in this piece. My last piece for this project was also created through the idea of flowers, but specifically the tulip. The small bowl is created through multiple petals layering on top of one another. While glazing this piece I chose to make each petal a different color so that each petal stood out and the piece did not look as if it was all one, just as each petal on a real flower is it's own and falls on its own.