In progress For my mug set project so far I have only been able to make my mug. I made the tripod mug and decided to make the theme halloween. I carven a bat, pumpkin, and ghost into my mug to go with the theme. When I begin my tray to go with the mug it will also have a halloween “basics” theme. Finished set Process When making this piece I started by just making the general shape of my mug (tripod), and the shape of my tray set which was more of a bowl. After making the general piece I began to work on the design. When we started these it was around halloween so I decided I wanted it to be halloween themed. I made the characters on the mug to represent characters of halloween, and just did a fun color representation of the holiday on the tray. After creating these designs I worked on getting the details really specific on the pieces, using mainly my needle tool then had the pieces fired. I decided to just stick with a few colors for the pieces and kept them dark halloween colors when glazing it. After glazing then I used them for food and drink, and they worked great! The style of my handle was just a traditional handle. I used a long piece of clay and a sponge to smooth out the clay and shape it into a thing traditional handle. I found this piece successful in several ways. I think that the color combination worked really well together and really brought out the designs. I also really liked the shape of my tray because I think it was different with the contrast of the size of walls. If I were to do this again I think I would try to work on making the shape of the mug a little cleaner. Creating the tripod was difficult for me and I believe it really threw off the shape of the mug, so I would work on doing better on that. Clay Slab- Clay that is made flag by rolling and rolled together.
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About The ArtistChris Soal from South Africa makes toothpick sculptures out of toothpicks and random objects to create Amorphous sculpture. These pieces are created to show the relationship between destruction of nature and humans. Soal also uses these toothpicks to show how a hard toothpick can make a hard looking, random objects look soft. Soal makes the shaping of the piece related to touch so that it all appears soft. Chris Soal's websiteWhat I like about this workThis work inspires me because I think it is very cool how Soal makes the hard toothpicks and random objects look very soft and touchable. The way that the toothpicks sit together makes them look flowy and soft. I am also very intrigued by this artwork because it really has a heavy message behind it. These pieces show how much trash there is everywhere and using it to create and piece that looks like a growing piece of the "trashed" earth. We can see that making art out of trash is a beautiful thing but the trash can be destructive.
Demo Board Finished piece Pros Some pros of this piece and doing this piece are . Endless amounts of designs to make with paper . Making the center of the flower and petals was very easy . Colors make it very bright . The piece is very “happy” because of the theme and colors Cons . Paper is hard to work with/make shapes. . It was difficult to make the shapes and pieces realistic. . Using the different paper methods made making the piece harder. because there wasn’t as much freedom when creating it. The process of making my piece was hard for me because I couldn’t think of every way to involve the different paper methods for a while. I started out by using layered relief to make my background, next when making my flower stems I used pleats so that they would be “folded” onto eachother. When I made the center of the flowers I used the tearing method to make imperfect centers to the flower. Finally when making the flower petals I used the rolling method, and then cut the roles to look like petals. Once done making the initial design I just decided to use a lot of colors to paint the piece and make it look happy.
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