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What do I plan to do?Since my piece is finally out of the kiln, I plan to use an acrylic dark brown on the boarders for the dirt and the wood. Im going to paint the water on the sides and melt glass on the lid surrounding the lilypad. Im also going to paint the planks aroynd the edges a deep green and i havent figured out what im going to do with the moon yet. What has been difficult so far?The biggest source of difficulty so far has been rolling the slabs and shaping the box. Everytime i would go to connect the next panel, I struggled to hid the seem and then all the borders became bumpy. Making the flower, surprisingly, was the easiest part. Once I made the slab the thickness I desired, I simply cut tear-drop shapes and bent them around my thumb to give them the angle I liked. I started by rolling slabs on the slab roller, and cut out a 4x4 square using a template I had made from printer paper. I then shaped the box by scratching and slipping to adhere the panels and shape the square. I rolled a few more slabs so I could add details like the flower, plants, and the triangle supports. I carved into the box with the needle tool to design the background. (Water, Moon, Swan...). When I was happy with my greenware box, I set it out, ready to go into the kiln and come out as bisqueware.
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Originally, I was going to make my piece with sketching pencils as it has a music theme and music is black and white. However, I really enjoyed using the Prismacolors for the sphere and Mrs. Sudkamp suggested I make this piece with them, so that's what I did. I took the mythical bird, the phoenix and standard musical notation. Explain your process from start to finish.I started by sketching the bird out in the same style that we made our gesture drawings. I then sampled the colors and wrote down the numbers so I could get them again. I started the piece on drawing paper by lightly sketching the phoenix and planning where the layers of fire would blend. I then started with a light layer of the yellow everywhere and continued outward. I would color the whole portion of fire with the lightest color and then slowly pull back from the middle as I added more layers of darker colors, between every layer going back over with the lighter colors. I repeated this until I built up and had blended the colors the way I wanted. I then finished it off by putting a line of dark purple/brown around the edge of the flames to make it stand out and I added the music notes with the dark reds. What did you pick to paint and why?I really wanted to paint something original, something I knew there wasn't a chance of anyone else in my class painting the chandelier from the Norwegian epic. I had never used acrylics before so I wanted to do something that was mostly big shapes with the option of adding more detail so I could push myself if I had the time. How do you make the color brown?You can make crown by mixing all the primary colors (yellow, blue, and red). Another way to make brown is to mix two complimentary colors, such as yellow and purple. Was it hard to mix the color swatches? Why or why not?FavoritesMy favorite mediums were the oil pastels and the colored pencils. I loved the color depth and texture the color pencils could get, but I just really liked how the pastels worked. I enjoyed using them because of how smooth they are after you layer a couple times. It wasn't quite as easy to blend, but like I previously stated, they were still enjoyable to use. Least Favorites |
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