Intro- cup with triangles in blue stain

Bowl with blue sponge effect on the out side

Teapot with blue/black drip on the outside

They all have designs on them because it makes them more interesting to look at.


Body paragraphs
The WHAT paragraph: 
Bowl with blue sponge effect on the outside- sponging effect new technique, cloud like, looks light. 

Teapot with blue/black drip on the outside: blending colors, very interesting to look at because of the white that ran

cup with blue stain triangles: it was a very simple project that the triangles brought oompf to. 

The HOW paragraph: new techniques: sponging, dripping,  stain, painting, over lapping colors, and contrasting colors.
throw easy projects then have more time to complicate them through glazing. 

In the WHY paragraph:
very simple projects which are all complicated by new glaze techniques that i learned through out the year.


Conclusion:
simple projects with a complicated design. 

                 Art is a peculiar thing.  It helps people to express what they are feeling and how they want people to perceive them. My theme is surface design. I added many details in order to give the on looker and fun sighting experience.  Examples of this are; my bowl which i used a sponging technique on the outside in blue in order to add detail to a plain art piece, a cup which I used stain to draw triangles around, and my teapot which i used the dripping technique to show movement and add design to the outside. 

               The bowl I made is clear all around and then on the outside I used a dark blue to sponge it. The dark blue ended up turning out kind of light, It looks as if the outside of my bowl is supposed to be a cloud.  The next, my cup, was very plain it was just a usual cup with no handle on it or anything. So, I decided that since it was a plain piece i could make it more detailed with glaze without it being over whelming. For this cup I decided to use the blue stain and make triangles that fit together in one line all the way around. Lastly, my teapot came out amazing. For my teapot I glazed it in white because i knew that white has a tendency to run. I then mixed black glaze with purple in order to make it lighter and dripped it around the rim of the lid and the teapot itself. 

            For my theme projects i decided to make very simple projects on the wheel, besides my teapot. For most of the projects that fit my theme i spent less than 5 minutes on the wheel making them. I would then take off a lot of clay while footing them to make them as light and as thin as possible with out exploding. I did this because it forced me to come up with something interesting for glaze. I prefer to do complicated designs on a simple project because i like a lot of color and painting on a ceramics piece is really fun to me. 

           A lot of my projects can be included in my theme because of the system i have just described.  My theme "surface design" is all about making something simple look complicated just by using different glazing techniques.  By completing projects on the wheel quickly i had more time to think about how i would like to glaze it. I used techniques like; sponging, dripping,  stain, painting, over lapping colors, and contrasting colors.  This made for a very interesting set of pieces. All off my art work is unique and different. 

           In conclusion, I made very simple projects in order to do complicated glazes. This made it so that all of my projects are different and interesting to look at.