For the clay unit, our assignment was to imitate the style of pop art artists in some form of food. I chose to do a coffee mug, plate and espresso beans, using glaze for everything but the latte art. ProgressFinal ProductReflection1. Describe the craftsmanship of your sculpture. (Is it neat and well executed?) The craftsmanship leaves a little to be desired, I feel if I hadn't been in such a rush it may had been a bit better. The mug I completed by using coils and slipping and scoring, while the plate was made by molding it against the bottom of a plastic plate.
2. What was the most difficult part of this project? For me, the most difficult part of the project proved to be the espresso beans, it took me so many tries to try and get a realistic bean size and shape. 3. Did your color choices work together harmoniously? I think they do, especially with the glaze I feel that all the colors work well together and pop against each other. 4. Is your sculpture interesting from all views? I think so, from a lot of views it's the same since it's pretty simple, but I think any view of the plate where you can see the espresso beans is interesting. 5. Describe the differences in constructing a sculpture and doing something 2D. Sculpting is very different than anything 2D because you have to think and worry about all angles and dimensions, rather then just the composition from one angle. 6. How did you create textures in your sculpture? For the plate and the mug my goal was to make as smooth of a texture as possible, so I used a rib-bone tool for that, for the "latte" surface I used a sponge, and for the espresso beans again i tried to make the outside as smooth as possible, but for the "dent" I just used a needle tool. 7. Does your sculpture look like the actual food? How did you accomplish this? I'd say the espresso beans looked pretty realistic, I accomplished this by molding them to size and using a dark brown glaze to imitate the color. 8. What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? I might chose a different subject matter, to be able to use more texture in the pieces to imitate the food rather than a lot of smooth objects with glaze.
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Megan PetersonSenior at Apex High School. Archives
June 2018
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