Thursday, May 28, 2015

Wheel Throwing & Hand Building Projects

During my Spring 2015 semester I took a wheel throwing class for 8 weeks. I had taken the hand-building class during the previous semester and it was there I found out how much fun it was to work with clay. Wheel throwing wasn't on the same level of fun but it was an awesome experience.
First off, I am terrible at wheel throwing. Centering the clay is still beyond difficult for me. Centering is something that just takes practice, and lots of it. One day I'll get it right.
I'm more of a hand-builder anyway...
In the mean time, here is a short post about some of the pieces I threw (and some of the sculpture pieces I made for other classes).


This is one of the few cylinders I threw that was actually pretty close to being 100% centered. Right now it's about to be put into the kiln again (yesterday I was able to glaze it after it's first 50+ hours in the kiln).

Here are the other cylinders I made, and a horse from the hand-building class.




Obvious imperfections on the horse head but it's pretty cute. And it was my first time sculpting, along with the bust below (part of my Portrait and Figure Sculpting class).

It's special. 



Profile self-portrait.



This is a cat.








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