Giant Grapes !!!

I have made about 5 of these domes and i will make a giant thing of grapes! 

End Product (:

Tea Pot Update.

I have not done anything!! 

I was sick monday.

I tried throwing wednesday, it kept dying.

Friday i did not try. 

Japanese Tea and Teapot

Japanese Tea Ceremony :

Also known as Way of Tea 

it involves ceremony preparation and presentation.

They use powdered green tea in Japanese it is chanoyu (茶の湯) or chadō (茶道).

Zen Buddhism was the primary influence of the ceremony.

They can be held out doors in the open air, but there are also tea rooms that are designed specifically for use for the wabi style of tea developed by Sen no Rikyū.

They prepare the tea either thick or thin, while using the best quality leaves, each guest gets a bowl of thin tea, while all the guests share and pass around a bowl of thick tea.

I am going to be making a japanese style tea pot.  

i would either make a variation of these two 

and or one like this.. it has a different type of handle

i think either would be challenging 

the first two the blue and the red one look like the body needs to be thrown in two sections. 

Week 2 : Vase In Progress

Tall Cylinder 

Beginning  Shaping

Final Thrown Piece

Week One

Goals for this week: 

-Work on throwing

-Pull taller with out shaping 

- Make a foot about the size of the lip

This week i completed: 

-I threw a UGLY pitcher with no foot :(  

- I also threw a.. big cylinder type pot 

- It has a good foot but it's a tad thin on the bottom. 

-I pulled  two handles and didn't cover them well enough. 

-I pulled two more and attached them in the same class period, 

Next class i will fish up the attaching and clean up of the handles. 

Next week i will complete: 

 - I want to try and throw two pieces and attach them.

-Pull as tall as my arm made a little less. 

-Make better foots, more clay left on the bottom for a foot. 

Performance:

A 93%

-because I'm almost finished but not yet i will finnish on monday.  

Ashley Coleson/ Ceramics 2.Period 6.

Some different types of firing like this.

Charlie and Linda Riggs 

http://www.cclay.com/criggs/

-Raku and Horse hair firings

Sectional Throwing ( Big and Teapots)

- I want to throw a big piece like this out of different sections or maybe a teapot in sections

- like that except maybe a little more the way i throw and add pieces and attach them. 

My First Work Ever!

1st Grade

Reminds me of Cat in the Hat hands!^^

Another Sculpture.

Made 2 years ago.

First one

Mom's Birthday Present!

Also made in Ceramics class!

she loves them, even tho one broke (:

Latest work, Vase !

Made in Ceramics Class

it doesn't look like a little chubby girl with a muffin top! :D

My Ceramic Pieces: "Chubby Stout Little Fat Girl"

Quoted by Mrs.Bicklehaupt (:

My Ceramic Pieces: Sculpture

My Ceramic Pieces: Oval Pot

My Ceramic Pieces: Black Textured Bottle

Artwork 3:

Persains 

• This piece is important to the art world because it creates beauty and curiosity to the eye, the eye wanders around the glass piece because it has flow between the lines.
• This particular art piece is sometimes used for hanging in front of the window and creating different colored light and beautiful stain glass looking art. 
• This art stood out to me because i liked the wavy lines and the way it all connected and made my eyes move from on side of the picture to the other. 

Artwork 2:

Niijima Loop

• This art work relates to the art world because it's something different, floating glass balls, I haven’t seen anything like it especially that big. 
• These floating glass balls are something new, dale was always coming up with new ideas and fun things to create so this goes along with his artworks perfectly. 
• This has a special relationship to me because I love water with any artwork i made a fountain this summer and it's my favorite thing and now floating glass balls in water are so cool, makes me want to try and make one!  

Artwork 1:

Macchia Loop

• This piece of art relates to the art world because it is beautiful and different  than what i have seen other glass blowers do before. 
• This particular art piece is both elegant, admirable and useful, it could be a bowl for candy at a reception desk or a key holder for your car keys or just a piece of art work. 
• This artwork relates to me because i really like functional art,  the fact that something can be so beautiful and you can use it at the same time is just great. 

Bio of Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Washington on September 20, 1941. He specializes in glass work and he was first familiarized with glass work when he attended the University of Washington. He earned a Masters of  Science degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. When Dale was 35 years old he got into a car accident and lost vision in his left eye, he now wear a patch over it.  He no longer blows glass due to an accident during bodysurfing. He has hired a team of glass blowers to create his ideas after he sketches him up.