Showing posts with label Green Collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Collection. Show all posts

Final Pieces For Colour Project

Here's the ceramic pieces that I've finished doing, I neatened them by sanding down and glazing them. Along with these I have framed my resin casts with wood that's glued and stapled together. 



I find that my bowl appears rather gritty as I used oxides to pick out certain indentations in the clay. I do prefer the samples where green slip was applied over the red clay instead of the white slip. Perhaps to correct this I could have used solid glazes, but prevented it from setting into the scratched mark making that revealed the brown clay.
  The process for doing this frame was by measuring wood to and cutting the ends diagonally on either side. Once all of it was attached an electric screw driver drilled holes to where the wire would be fitted.

Clay Imprinting And Plaster Mould

For making this I first selected small green items I wanted to go into clay, then rolled out a medium sized slab of clay that is reasonably thick. Some oil or Vaseline was placed onto the items to avoid it sticking, next I pressed down into the clay with the selected objects, it can't be pushed in too weakly or pushed to where it's going through the clay. After this if a plaster mould is wanted four walls are established using the sides of the clay. The walls needed to be thick and attached well to avoid the liquid of the plaster from spilling especially when the liquid plaster needs a shaking movement to bring out the air.
The plaster needed to be left in for a few days then I was able to take it out and cut the sides down. When the clay was taken out of the kiln I made little reverse impressions out of the clay imprinted pieces I had.




Photoshop Stencils And Fans

Some experimentation done in Photoshop cs6 with the photography options. I did it mostly by changing brightness and contrast along with the colour levels. The templates were done in the same process except the lasso tool was used for selecting. This still seem a little unfinished to me, mostly since they are not in very good quality and the lasso tool did not select the objects clear enough. I'll need to do some research on techniques with photoshop if I want something more professional. 





Graffiti Spraying

Stencilling became the biggest part of this colour project for me as my chosen favourite object was stencilling. I cut through a card like green coloured paper, so it would be more heavy duty and less like to bend or rip, it was a bit more of a trial to cut through specially with curved cuts. After doing this I tried some painting and inking methods with these stencils. One of them was graffiti spraying and the paints were in acrylic pots that I poured into the jar and then sprayed out onto paper. 









Colour Project Sheets

These sheets are about taking all the objects from my colour collection and drawing them in multiple ways and interpretations. Each sheet had its theme to work with to make an outcome. 

The first sheet is what came out from the cut out stencils and they suited a black background. I tried to have a pattern with dark and light greens and experiment with the arrangement of sizes.
This sheet was continuing the idea of simplifying the objects to shapes by leaving them at a somewhat unfinished state. The inspiration for this came from Sonia Delaunay and by using bold blocked colours there is a certain retro feel to the sheet.
My green templates looked interesting all alighted and spaced but I found there was a completely different formula by having them scattered and overlapping as well. I decided that it was good enough to put down on paper.
This is more on just drawing what you see in front of you and making a unique composition for everything first.
Melissa Smith and Piet Mondrian have two very different and instinctive styles, I tried combining both of what that do together. The stencilling was a little splattered to match up to Smith's designs and Mondrian's theme was what boxed in everything.
This last sheet was about capturing every single object I collected and to make it all neat and illustrated.

Geometric Clay Stencil

In my colour themed project there was a particular favourite object of mine and that was the green stencils. I had an old one that looked a lot like the final ceramic piece I have made here. To create this I rolled out some red clay flat as possible and cut around the template I placed on top of the clay, then made some modifications to the original design. The glaze used was called Holly green and it gave a good rustic, old look to match with the decade old template it was made with. 


Casting Resin

For this part of the project I choose five of my green coloured items that were a reasonably small size. The small items from the collection of mine needed to avoid undercuts and strange edges. When being placed in the former tray the proportions of the items. When this has been done a black plastic called the polystyrene is inserted over the items. The heat of the plastic can push back so you keep pressing down the former tray lever until it covers the items in a wrap. Once done you take it out and spray the plastic so the resin does not stick to the polystyrene. Wire is added into each mould, to do this take the pliers and twist it so it fits in the mould. The wire needs to be straight and taped down. Then lastly make sure it's all level and will not move around easily for the resin to be poured.







Sgraffito Bowl

The sqraffito bowl process was about rolling out clay flat and even then placing it inside the press mould. Unlike any other clay process making, this one is about avoiding too much hand contact with the clay. It's about making it more like an everyday bowl and it needs that somewhat artificial appearance you find with ceramic utensils. I added the white slip to the top and after waiting I carved into the still drying bowl with various tools. The next step after this is the glazing to the bowl but the surface will still remain textured from all the carving methods.






Casting Shadows


Any objects that are neatly organised are often laid out on a white surface to make it pristine and to draw the attention to the objects themselves. It is important to have that bright and clean looking image since it looks more professional. Despite knowing this I instead grouped my green items and tried to go a route where it looks much duller in an off colour way. I did this because I wanted to see the shadows stretched across a surface when they are all aligned in a certain fashion. Here are the outcomes, which might give a different perspective when I am doing my observational drawings.









Sample Sgraffito Pieces

I have made a sgraffito bowl, and one of the processes was making some samples to try out techniques and possible outcomes. These are the four possible results from experimenting with various metal tools.








Ceramic Key And Spoon

In the class ceramics the objective is to make replicas of the green objects. My two objects placed here are made from porcelain clay which dries quite quickly, I had more luck from always keeping it at a moistened state. It's best to always have some water at use for the drier clays such as porcelain. Currently the key has yet to go in the kiln as it's at the first drying stage.





My other object is a key and it's a double sided piece, I find it looks similar to church architecture in some aspects. As it has those chunky thick swirls, you would sometimes notice. I would still have liked to be more delicate by working thinly with the clay to get better results.

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