My Last Three Ceramic Sculptures at HHS

Something to Remember 

                                                       
Plate set

Cup

Pencil holder

Candle holder

Pinch bowl

The first five pieces were on the wheel and the other two were hand built. The reason i call it a reason to remember is because I will always have them somewhere in my house to remind me where i started from, i want to continue ceramics, maybe not as a career but as a hobbie!

The Colorful Jelly Fish

Making this wind chime jellyfish was tough, especially putting the string in the holes when the holes weren’t big enough. I applied sgraffito to the sculpture.

Surface Design

Mishima pottery is a type of  surface design by drawing with a putting slip into lines on leather-hard clay. 

Sgraffito Pottery is adding under-glazes and colored slip to the leather hard clay then scratching out your design, to it your own.

Slip Trailing is when you can add lines and patterns to a leather hard clay surface.

Impressed Texture is when you press into clay with a object that has surface texture to leave a print on the clay. 

Sprigging is when you decorate clay with smaller design pieces to add surface texture.

My Wind Chime Sketch

I will be doing the Mishima technique because I feel that it will allow me to make my jelly fish look realistic when doing a wind chime.

                                                                    Lucie Rie                                                                           

 Lucie Gomperz was born in Vienna, Austria on March 16,1902. She was the youngest of three. Her father was a Jewish Medical Doctor and she had brothers, one who was killed at Italian front in 1917 Lucie had found the inspiration for ceramics by her uncles' Roman Pottery Collection. She had set  up her first studio and exhibited in 1925 and got her first medal in 1937. She fled Nazi Austria to go to England. During the war, Lucie made buttons and jewelry made out of clay (It's now displayed in the Victoria  and Albert Museum and several other places). Lucie often invited  people to her small studio in London. She was well known for handing out tea and cake. Rie was also a friend of Bernard Leach ( Bernard is a British leading figures int studio pottery in the mid-20th century). She indeed liked his work although they had very different styles. 1960 to 1972 Lucie taught at Camberwell College of Arts and received many more rewards for her amazing pottery. She had stopped making in 1990, when her series of strokes started to begin. Lucie Rie died in London on the 1st of April 1995 at her home, at the age of 93.

The last picture above is my favorite vase by Lucie Rie. I love this vase because it has such a unique form and the different colors and textures she added to it gave it a whole different dimension. 

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie_Rie

Still Standing

 This was my family project. I chose to create a old messed up bridge because I believe that all families have their bad situations they go through but at the end of the day their all still together   representing the bridge "Still Standing".

My Large Slab

This is my larger slab construction. I felt like I understood the concept of slab from my small construction, so I decided to go big and create a cylinder slab construction with a rose on the top, I think it came out pretty good considering it was my first attempt on a jar shaped slab. 

My Small Slab

This was my first slab construction I did, so I could learn how to put together slabs. I learned to put slabs by the score/slip method.  I also learned that I have to put my design on before putting them together.