inding balance is key to a piece of art that draws the eye and is appealing. My theme is a project that exudes simplicity and mundaneness, but using glaze to keep it visually interesting. I felt that a complex shape and glaze would be too much, and too busy, but focusing on a rendition that was clean, would make a perfect canvas to have a more complex glaze, so that that would be what people noticed.
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Finding balance is key to a piece of art that draws the eye and is appealing. My theme is a project that exudes simplicity and mundaneness, but using glaze to keep it visually interesting. I felt that a complex shape and glaze would be too much, and too busy, but focusing on a rendition that was clean, would make a perfect canvas to have a more complex glaze, so that that would be what people noticed.
I have many examples of projects with a clean form, but multifaceted glaze. My latest project is a large wide vase, with a thick lip. the design is clean, and delivers a blunt image of what, in my opinion, and wide, rounded vase should look like. it is simple and has nothing extra or fancy. The glaze is gutsy and I chose to completely glaze the inside in green, but splatter painted the outside. It has no clear glaze under the splatter, and it makes it rough and a bit rustic which I like. It is visually interesting to look at. Another one of my theme choices is also a vase, but is taller and the lip is much more subtle. The project is graceful, with only the slight outturn for the lip. The glaze on that project is not quite as hard to achieve as some of the other, but the effect is great. I glazed half in midnight blue and the other half in the speckled white, but had some overlap, which created a very stunning light, speckled blue. The middle ground where the overlap occurred also has wonderful movement. My choice project is another good example. This project is not quite as basal as the other, but is still a good rendition. The project is a very tall vase with a wavy lip. The glaze is very complex though. Half of the inside is glazed in green the other half in white, but the outside I did a swooped glaze is a different area of the vase in the green which creates a good visually interesting piece. To create the pieces that had the effect of creating a visually interesting project with a focus on the glazes, I tried to make projects that were as simple as possible. My other focus when I was throwing these projects was to strive to make sure they were as centered as possible, and pulled up as much as they could be. If they were going to be simple projects, then they would be as close to perfect as I could get them. I wanted very good renditions of the projects that I was striving to make. When it came time to glaze I really wanted to make sure that that is what made the piece visually interesting. I wanted the glazes to make the project come alive, and really take it to another level. I tried many different techniques and one of mu favorites was splatter paint. I accompanied the splatter painted project with a fully glazed interior. I loved the effect that that brought. I also tried overlapping glazes which also had a lovely effect. It created movement in the middle, and actually turned out to be one of the most noticed pieces that I made. I also tried glazing different parts of my projects in different blocks and mixing shapes. I liked those techniques less, but still felt that they brought visual appeal. The thematic trend of my projects was the use of simplicity and complexity, together to make a visually interesting project, while the actual project was not visually interesting. I feel that I accomplished fairly well. The theme was not my favorite because I wanted to make more complex projects, but I did feel that I expand in my knowledge of glazing techniques and actually employed more that I knew that I didn't do before because I was complacent. I liked many of my projects and felt that I really expanded the way I did things. I also felt that with my focus being on making my projects and technically perfect as I could possibly make them helped me to become a better ceramics art creator. In the end my theme goal was accomplished because I did create many simple projects with complex glazes. I let glazes take center stage so that I could see if that could actually make a piece visually interesting. I definitely think a simple project can be made interesting with a complex glaze. |
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