Hey! Oh my goodness today has been a good day :) so much stuff to talk about! First ceramics though.
SO! Heres my mug!!! I finally finished carving it out and now I'm letting it dry along with my other mug with the mountain scape and hopefully they will get bisqued this week! My swirly cylinder I glazed purple and it came out of the glaze kiln today but I put it in for another firing because the color didn't turn out quite like I had hoped. Plus I finally got up the nerve to glaze my round mug today!! I glazed it so that the bottom half is white and the top half and inside are light blue turquoise and shadow green overlapped, I'm hoping it turns out like my large vase (that I have yet to put on my blog... I know, I know). Hopefully its out tomorrow!
Anyways! So now onto the good stuff! :) In class today...
SO! Heres my mug!!! I finally finished carving it out and now I'm letting it dry along with my other mug with the mountain scape and hopefully they will get bisqued this week! My swirly cylinder I glazed purple and it came out of the glaze kiln today but I put it in for another firing because the color didn't turn out quite like I had hoped. Plus I finally got up the nerve to glaze my round mug today!! I glazed it so that the bottom half is white and the top half and inside are light blue turquoise and shadow green overlapped, I'm hoping it turns out like my large vase (that I have yet to put on my blog... I know, I know). Hopefully its out tomorrow!
Anyways! So now onto the good stuff! :) In class today...
when I was drawing the flowers onto my mug, at first I didn't really know what I was doing and just drew them in as linear lines, pretty but overall kind of dull. Then Ms. H came over to me and told me that I should really try and create 3-dimensional projects with 3D forms and designs on then and that that would really help bring my art to the next level...
SHE WAS RIGHT!! She showed me how to carve out the flowers with a loop tool and make them appear like they are coming off of the surface by pressing the clay around it down. It make the whole project look a million times better! I love it!
Afterwards she and I got talking about art and some of the ways that art appeals to human senses and looks ascetically pleasing. Fratals.
By definition: a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has thesame statistical character as the whole. Fractals areuseful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlinesor snowflakes) in which similar patterns recur atprogressively smaller scales, and in describing partlyrandom or chaotic phenomena such as crystal growth, fluid turbulence, and galaxy formation.
Some examples of fractals are illustrated below in some pictures I found on the internet, I think its SO cool! The fact that these kinds of patterns and reoccurring shapes and images are instilled in nature and can be represented mathematically and graphically is just amazing! These kinds of pattern are instilled in human nature and is one of the underlying reasons why we find patterns to be ascetically pleasing - because these are the kinds of patterns we are accustomed to seeing all throughout our evolution as creatures on Earth! That's ridiculous! I think its just so amazing what life presents to you, stuff like this inspires me to want to research more about how art, science, math, and life are all interconnected. Really brings your life into perspective.. So cool... :)
SHE WAS RIGHT!! She showed me how to carve out the flowers with a loop tool and make them appear like they are coming off of the surface by pressing the clay around it down. It make the whole project look a million times better! I love it!
Afterwards she and I got talking about art and some of the ways that art appeals to human senses and looks ascetically pleasing. Fratals.
By definition: a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has thesame statistical character as the whole. Fractals areuseful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlinesor snowflakes) in which similar patterns recur atprogressively smaller scales, and in describing partlyrandom or chaotic phenomena such as crystal growth, fluid turbulence, and galaxy formation.
Some examples of fractals are illustrated below in some pictures I found on the internet, I think its SO cool! The fact that these kinds of patterns and reoccurring shapes and images are instilled in nature and can be represented mathematically and graphically is just amazing! These kinds of pattern are instilled in human nature and is one of the underlying reasons why we find patterns to be ascetically pleasing - because these are the kinds of patterns we are accustomed to seeing all throughout our evolution as creatures on Earth! That's ridiculous! I think its just so amazing what life presents to you, stuff like this inspires me to want to research more about how art, science, math, and life are all interconnected. Really brings your life into perspective.. So cool... :)
