More Senior Pieces

Just like i said here are some more pics of some more pieces that i've done my senior year (this year). I am also working on a concentration series so i'll post the pieces from that when i get the pics. So they won't all be in one post, they'll be in whatever post i put them in (i will tell which is a concentration piece or not). Also the pics of my concentration pieces that are made of clay, i will have pics of them before and after they were glazed as an "in case" they blew up in the kiln. It's still kinda cool cause you'll get to see the before and after glazing/firing process.

Abstract Plaster Piece

Plaster

My original idea for this piece was different from what it came out looking like. What happened was my original idea was kinda hard to do in plaster so the piece kept falling apart and ended up looking like this. But on the positive side it still looks pretty good...even kinda looks like a Triceratops head almost.

Watusi (Original and Glazed) (Concentration Piece #1) 5" x 8" x 5 1/2"

Clay and Glaze (color: Dejan Brown)

Surprise, i have to do another concentration series this year but this one i think is much more fun than the last one. Only difference is this one is in 3D and i have more of a clue on what I'm doing this time around. So for my concentration series i have decided to do it on horned animals (alive, extinct, and "mythical") since i find them VERY interesting. So my first piece is of a bovine creature called a Watusi (yes it actually exists, you can google it). This one is made of clay but is actually hollow-- i did this by throwing (in ceramics class) a closed shape, which is a hollow ball which is VERY tricky to do, and then added the head, horns, and ears. The scary parts was firing it cause i had to poke a bunch of holes in it so while it fired all the air inside could escape, and hope it didn't explode--which as u can see it didn't. Then after i glazed it and fired it again, i was planning on getting a tan/brown color but where i put a thick coat of glaze it turned out kinda blue-ish; but that's ok. When u glaze it's like a surprise cause u don't know exactly how the glaze will turn out.

Gemsbok, Ibex, Ram Trio (Original) (Concentration Piece #2) 3 1/4" x 1 1/4" x 6 1/2"

Clay

These three pieces are about the size of your hand but i did that on purpose. Though they are small they are all one piece and the overall size isn't what u r supposed to be looking at. The point (no pun intended) of my series is the horns of the animals and what they look like and how they add to the appearance of the animals. With this piece, the horns going from the left to the right curve, going from straight in the gemsbok, to completely curved on the ram. The position of the head also adds to the look of the horns. This piece hasn't been glazed yet but i will add the pictures here when they are glazed.