My controller started out as a square of clay. And slowly I carved out the base, and once i had that completely done. I started just drawing out the details of the controller. The buttons, sticks and the D-pad. Once I had that done, I started to carve out the buttons, making it look like they were actually popping out, and perfected them as best as I could, and at the end of it. I put 2 holes in the back of the controller so i can hang it on my wall. But some mistakes i made with the controller is with the buttons. I made them the size they were supposed to be rather than a little bigger, so when i carved out the buttons. They were smaller than usual, so now i know that if I'm going to carve something out, then to make it a little bigger than normal so that i have more room for mistake.
On my controller i am creating, i took a big piece of clay, formed it into a block, and started carving into it. This is a lot easier than what my original plan of trying to just shape it instead. The art piece is obviously just a controller, and what i plan to do with it is make it a wall piece so that i can hang it on my wall. So far, the controller is coming out exactly how i expected it. With this controller, i have one small problem, and that is when i leave it wrapped up, it gets to moist and it leaves my clay looking different than if it was dry, this problem isn't to bad, but most of the time when i go to work on this piece, i just have to reshape the things that i have carved out, and usually it doesn't come out as good as it was before.
One of my favorite things to do with my past time is to play video games. And I do this quite often, so when I learned that I was able to create an artwork portraying something that is real, the thought of creating a controller really sparked my interest. The controller obviously represents my love for video games and I am able to show others that might not have known this. A new thing that I learned while coloring my globe with an oil pastel is to color darker. The last time I used oil pastel, I didn't color dark enough and the tempra just covered up the oil pastel, leaving my previous artwork mostly black. This allowed me to realize the next time I did an artwork that i need to color dark so it comes out exactly how i want it to.
The thing with this art piece is i had to do a little of research to even have an idea for what to do. And to even be able to have multiple angles of the piece. I used a website called http://www.controllerchaos.com/xbox-one-rapid-fire-gloss-white.html because it gave me multiple angles for the controller. This allows me to have full visibility of a controller so i don't have to bring my own in. In using this artwork i started creating. i did learn a new art working technique, the basic thing called carving.All i did was I took a big block originally and all i did was start to carve out of this block in order to create the general shape that i wanted. This was a lot easier than having to individual create each and every part of the controller.
My most successful artwork was a bowl we created for a charity event. I feel it was the most successful because it came out the closest to what I wanted, meaning it actually came out looking like a giant tea cup, and with the glaze, it almost came out how i wanted. the colors you see are black and turquoise. The lighter color is turquoise and the darker is black and this is pre-fire. I don't have a picture of it fired. I believe it did mostly because it was a simple little project but because it was for someone else, it gave me the inspiration to want to make it as best as I could. The project I believe i overcame the most obstacles with was the tree I made. Right off the bat in order to put on limbs, i had to make stilts, and a few times when i would come back to my work, one would have fallen off and when i would go to put it just wouldn't look the same as i originally put it, which is why it appears not very worked on. SO this is why my tree had the most obstacles. I believe the two things that show my growth are between the tree as shown in the picture and my globe that i just finished. The tree i created obviously looks like a scrub tree. Mostly because things would fall apart on it and i was too impatient to sit there and piece it completely back together. And with my globe, everything went good with it and especially with the carving part of it, it came out more defined, and i definitely consider it a contender for my best piece. Personally I enjoy this self paced and self directed class because it makes me feel better about the artwork that i create. It gives me more time to be able to change my mind if i decide to, and i like the fact that we have these themes because I like to see what others did with the same theme and how they approached it.
A new skill that I learned with my tree and coloring it with oil pastel is that i need to color darker with the oil pastel. When i put the tempura on, it covered up most of the oil pastel. And so now i have to go back and recolor it darker. This will lead me to know in the future to color deeper with oil pastel. (The color you see is after i recolored it.) I have to do a lot of research as in looking at pictures in order to find detail for my globe. Obviously the average person can just think up what land and water and the inside of the world looks like, so this is why research is involved. For instance, the way that north America is shaped is actually different than the way i thought it was. Im trying to give it a more realistic look.
Looking at my running man, my plan was obviously to make it look like he was running in motion. From the picture obviously it doesn't look like that. Therefore i need to fix the legs. Im wanting to kind of make it look like one leg is above the other, which i learned is the way to make it appear to look in motion. This was a picture of my running before. I took a risk on redoing the torso part. It could have ended up just messing up the shape of the legs or the way the waist is by taking if off and the possibly leading to the next torso not being very realistic. But me taking this risk ended up better because I feel that the man will end up coming out better than it originally could have.
I had a few problems building the legs and attempting to build the torso to my running man. The most extensive problem was the torso. I ended up not putting it on until i have further viewing of an actual running man. The way i was attempting to make him was his torso was turned sideways and his legs forward, obviously making it really unrealistic. Perhaps like something a 2nd grader would draw, so i have restarted on building it. Running is not one of my personal favorites to do. And I made this because of that. The last two pieces I have made involve things that I do not prefer or dislike. For instance, the mask I made represents me not liking scary or creepy things. So therefore, this running man represents the fact that I do not like to run.
My artwork almost turned out as i wanted. When i started it, i did want a scary mask. I only wish that it would have came out better. As an amateur clay maker, I can only do so much so obviously I couldn't make it look professional. Although if I could redo it and start over, I would add more detail to the face attempting to make it more horrifying and realistic rather than the cartoonish look that it has. I took risk on this bowl with the glaze. In order to get the exact design i wanted, I had to somewhat carefully pour the two glazes together, then take my brush and carefully move the two different glazes around to get the exact design i wanted without just completely mixing them together.
A new skill i learned while doing this project was soft molding. I took a soft mold full of rice and formed it in the shape that i wanted and put it on a board. When i was done with that, I rolled out a large slab of clay. I put the rolled out clay on top of the soft mold. Then, while standing, i dropped the board onto the floor allowing gravity to give me the shape. This soft mold was perfect for creating a mask because it gave it the popping out effect with such ease The use of masks has been going on for a very long time. People used to wear masks in rituals and ceremonies. In Egypt, they used to put masks because they thought that immortality depended on the preservation of the body. And of course, in some places masks were used as protection against one another in battle or when hunting. In Africa, they believe that if they wear a ritual mask, then they lose their human identity and turn into a spirit.
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