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.