Reflects me

The ancient vase is the project that most reflects me as an artist.  It wasn't really a personal project, but it shows how determined I am as an artist.  This vase had a lot of detail work in the painting and never did I use a spin-wheel, I painted each one of the rings on the vase by moving around the vase over and over and over again.  This artwork was a project in which we were supposed to recreate an ancient vase and I chose this vase from a picture I found online.  The project just expresses that I don't give up when I'm given a project and I give each project my all.

Biggest challenge

The fruit goblet was the most challenging project for me because I really had to remember that I had to have enough area touching to make it be able to stick together.  Also, creating all the pinch pots took a lot of patience and time.  In order to create this project, I took a lot of time and made myself be patient because everyday of building this project, a fruit fell off or something broke off and it was very stressful.  I decided to not connect everything until after the initial fire and then connected it with glaze and let it all be fired together so the glaze would act as a glue.  If I could do this project again, I don't think I'd change anything, it turned out looking how I wanted it to look, even though it took longer than expected.  When my fruit goblet was completed, I felt a sense of completeness because I spent the most time on this project and was very detailed about it.  It was a success.

Helped me improve and grow

As the first ceramics project I had, this project helped me grow and improve the most this year.  For this project, I used coils for the whole thing.  I did know what coils were before this project only because I was in Mrs. Gravlin's homeroom last year and asked her what one of the finished projects were and she said it was a coil vase.  This vase did turn out how I wanted it to, I like the color and the construction overall.

Favorite project

This final was my favorite project because it was the project that I could express myself the most through, I was able to use my imagination to theme my teapot however I wanted to.  I didn't really use many techniques I hadn't used before because this was the last project and I had already learned and demonstrated the skills i had learned on other projects.  In this project, I used coils for the pot and decorations, a pinch pot for the lid and slabs to create the spout and wheels.  i glazed this piece using stroke-n-coats and I chose the colors based on the actual colors of Cinderella's carriage from the movie.  When I saw this piece completed, it was the best feeling, I was immensely proud of myself and knew that this would be the project that I would remember from ceramics.  This project was a huge success!!!!!