Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Peterson Art Center - Class #7

This is my last class for a while. It's kind of sad to part from the fun of wheel thrown pottery, but my debts must get paid down and some semblance of a real savings started, especially now that I have a "real" job. This last pottery class was simply trimming. The vase worked out, whew! I'm hoping it makes it through firing. The platter I made for my dad bit the dust :(   The bottom edge between the rim and the foot got too thin and cracked. It was a sad thing.

I still have a few pieces that are somewhere in the process between greenware and glazed. In about a month, I'll go back up to check on these pieces. Hopefully, they will all be ready to go to the next stage (glazing or taking them home).

November 15th - I went to retrieve my pieces this afternoon and only found ONE of the four pieces that they supposedly still had! I'm so annoyed! The pieces were no where to be found and it's one of those places that has no real organization as to where someone's items would be. The one that was available also got chipped in several places. I'm sad, but thinking that perhaps I'll break it in pieces, glaze the pieces, and then use them as mosaic tiles. The instructors at the center have been great, but the organization of where things are placed and what happens to everyone's pieces is a free for all. (The payments had gotten all messed up at one point too, but luckily that was easy enough to prove.) 

I'll be replacing my lost items by using the wheel at the school and some clay I bought awhile ago. I was really hoping to give the cupcake stand to my sister for her bday (this Sunday - don't worry, she doesn't read this blog, lol!), but I guess I'll just make another one and let her know that it's in the works. I suppose this might be even better, since she can choose the color.
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3 comments:

Hazel Terry said...

Can we see them yet? xxxxx

October 13, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Elaine Shandra said...

I wish you could see them! I need to go check on them. The place only fires about once a month. So, perhaps in a few weeks, I'll be able to post pics of two of them and in another month, the last one/two!

October 13, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Elaine Shandra said...

I went to pick up my pieces and only one was there. It also got chipped in several places. I'm sad, but thinking that perhaps I'll break it in pieces, glaze the pieces, and then use them as mosaic tiles.

November 16, 2010 at 3:48 PM

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Creativity Journal

Creativity: to create something novel and appropriate to the situation (see post: "What is Creativity," December 11, 2009)*

1. Create something out of the word simcha (joy/happiness/festivities/celebrations/etc)

2. Finish my chairs (See post, "Update: My Chairs")

3. Pottery

4. Start a children's Art class

5. Teach Art at a Women's Correctional Facility

6. Come up with assignments for the American Arts packet

7. Change the assignments in the Drama Costuming packet - the students will create 4-5 female and male costumes from the 11 time periods included in the packet, plus the final instead of only writing (copying and pasting) info about each time period.

8. Create a book exchange/book club for illiteracy/aliteracy

9. Learn Art in a foreign country

10. Write a book

11. Start a children's magazine for children by children and publish it on the web.

12. Create trees and hands (not necessarily together, but maybe?)

13. Blog book - only novel in the sense that it's my own writing!

14. Create a chess set (even though I don't personally play chess, lol!)

15. S'mores with a twist

16. 3D art - I admire other forms of art, but I personally only truly enjoy the physicallity and manipulative quality of 3D art. There's something truly living in 3D art that I miss in 2D art.

17. Sign language hands (alphabet/words)

18. Hands of twisted metal coils

19. use different types of materials to create imprints in clay (wire mesh)

20. A shelf/centerpiece holder (a couple of bricks on the bottom, long, thin wood, 12" width laying on top, block (thicker than the bricks on the bottom - 6"?) in middle, and a short piece of wood on the very top).

21. vase (fill baggie with rice and seal the bag, wheel thrown then carefully squish).

22. 3D collage out of meaningful paper.

23. Babushka doll style vase with side cutout (possibly put a piece of glass in the side opening)

24. Babushka dolls - make smallest one first, with side opening and something inside(?), then the next biggest - place small one inside next biggest when done with the bottom of it and secure the two together. Continue this process with side openings in each so that you can see all the way through to the inside "jem" in the smallest one!

25. atlas - split into pieces and reassemble into something new - mobile? encase each piece in between glass sheets, hang as a put together puzzle.

26. paper dolls & scenery out of different types of paper, paintings, collages, maps, etc.

27. A storm cloud with a silvery lining (mobile?) ceramic/paper mache

28. "baby ducklings" for each child, somehow uniquely different somehow, name and date of birth.

29. "stained glass" with veggies/fruits & other natural things. Lacquered and soldered.

30. Men's dress shirts with faux cuff links printed onto the cuffs or fancy/fun buttons to replace the buttons on a standard dress shirt. button clips? a button cover-up to go over existing buttons without changing the button itself.

31. A pottery wheel bat that has form attachments in order to create smooth indentations in the "bottom" of the piece being thrown.

32. "Quilt" of the six-day-Christian-creation-period.

33. A dollhouse book for paper dolls! such a cool idea!!

34. print your own fabric using a large "rolling pin" stamp?

35. Cloth nesting dolls

36. map topography - cut out all of the countries and continents and islands, layer then largest to smallest hang them slightly apart. From an actual map? or traced out onto something else?

*Please be creative and use your own ideas and not mine. Although if you are inspired by my ideas and the inspiration and not the idea itself is used, then by all means, use the inspiration!!

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