5 Objects

Before being assigned our first project, we had to learn the importance of how air affects the hardening of the clay and the importance of water that affects how much moisture the clay takes up.  For this project students are to make ten or more hollow enclosed objects and explore the different shapes, sizes, textures, and forms.  This project also tests our hand building skills to create a harmonious composition will all ten (or more) enclosed forms.  All students need to make two or three assemblages using ALL of their forms.  The picture below shows my first five enclosed forms being made to be assembled.    

I took this picture after finishing molding my shapes. 

This is an aerial view of the five forms.  Each enclosed object has its own shape and size.  

I used a triangular shape base and as I was making this one, the sides started to fuse together which led me to curve the corners to make a spinning wheel shape.  I used a pick tool which had a circular bottom and made an indent on it.  

I made a tear-shaped base for this object. This is the front view of this object. You can see that one side was smoothed out and the other side was "texturized" with a a clay tool that gave it a checkered like texture.  

This is the side view.

This has an oval shaped base.  My point of view on this piece is that it looks like a small watermelon. I used the rigid rib to make the line texture on this one. I had textures going in straight lines, others coming from bottom to top, and some going all around.  

This is a bird's eye view of the watermelon shaped object.

When I was making this object out of clay, it reminded me of a valacaraptor's claw because of its unusual shape.
I like this object the most because it is different at all angles. It's like a scalene  triangle because it has no equal sides.  

Front view of the claw shaped object.

Side view

Back view

This was the first object made for this object.   Everyone had to make two bowl like shapes and mold them together to make a sphere.

Each clay object were made in different shapes, size, and time.  I had fun making each and every one of them because of the different methods that were used to make them.  Although each one took a bit time to make them, it was fun to see how the final results would turn out to be.  There were some shapes that I did not expect to make such as the "pin wheel" shape because I originally wanted to make a pyramid but the corners started to merge and I decide to curve them and it turned out to be an unique shape.  

I started to add different textures to old forms and make new ones at the same time.  

I took these three forms and combined them to make an assemblage, but I need to add more forms on it to make it a more balanced assemblage.  

I then made an "S" shaped form and added it onto the assemblage #1. I personally think this assemblage is forming nicely. It is growing taller and taller gradually and I believe that two more enclosed forms can complete assemblage #1.

This piece contains slip paint and the colors I chose were pea green and white.  

This object contains different colors of green (2) and white. It has a chaotic look to it in the middle part as well as the very top part.  

This one contains a white and lavender color the circles around the shape. 

I gave this part of the object a light brush of the slip paint and it showed some of the textures that was on it, which is what I was going for so it turned out good.