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Inspired Artist9/5/2018 The artist I chose is a sculptor named Guy Van Leemput. He works with porcelain to create containers like bowls based on geometry. His techniques in the beginning was painting white porcelain slip onto balloons to create bowls. The bowls turn out to look fragile and thin along with translucent. He creates these bowls with a variety of textures which he found inspiration for in nature. I am inspired by his artwork because of the use of light and shadow for the bowls along with the variety of textures designed into the bowls. The look of the bowls as well are to me very original and like nothing I have seen before. They give off a paper look which draws me into the sculpture. Guy is from Belgium and started studying mathematics at the university of Leuven and taught ceramics in his free hours. Around the year of 2001, he decided to follow his passion and no longer was a teacher for mathematics, but for sculpture. There is no website for this artist.
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Tripod Mug9/5/2018 Planning SketchIn ProgressFinalThe process of the mug was I created a flat slab in which I attached both sides by creating a cylinder. I then pinched the bottom into three parts to create the tripod mug look. After smoothing the piece I then added a handle. After the piece was fired, I painted using the colors I chose in which the piece was fired again. I used the basic style for the handle which Ms. Sudkamp taught us to create by cutting out a strip, creating an indent for the fingers to rest on the handle and then bending at the bottom. What I found successful was creating the shape of the tripod mug and the shape of the handle. What I would change is maybe making the tripod mug wider along with making the color more opaque. The definition of a clay slab is a flat piece of clay which is evenly sized and used to create the base of a piece of pottery.
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Clay Stamps9/5/2018 1) Stamps I found that worked were the rounder ones because they were able to indent the clay better than the cube ones. Example, the beach ball looking one. A square one of a dinosaur works great as well. Ones that didn't work very well were cubed ones with different designs on each side. Those stamps did not create deep enough indents to create a design in the clay. 2) The practice did influence what I will make for stamps because now I plan to make round clay stamps and maybe one cubed but create a large and deeper indent for stamp. 1. The stamp that I think will work the best is the log because of the deeper holes that can create a deeper indent into the clay. When I was practicing with already made stamps, I found that the round ones worked the best for patterns into the clay.
2. I think I will have difficulties with the square because when I was sampling square stamps, they did not work very well. The indents into the stamp also are not as deep as my log which may cause the pattern not to show up very well. 3. The style that was the most difficult to make was the square because of the different patterns I created on each side of the cube. Some of the patterns ran into the other sides with caused me to have to fix each side. 4. The style that was the easiest to make was the sphere because I easily created circles in a sphere which was not hard to make and the design isn't as complicated as for example my square. |