Clay Project 2012/2013

This project is a work in progress. It hasn't been fired or completely painted yet, however, it should be finished relatively soon. What I did was make a small box. I'm not quite sure what I plan to use it for, but I will be honest, I was in somewhat in a hurry and needed something I could complete efficiently and quickly to kind of get back into the groove of things with the class. Which I did and it looks actually pretty well shaped. I ended up painting the box mint green, and have been in the process of painting small pink daisies all over it. I'm not sure how it will end up looking after being fired but I'm really hoping the paint colors don't blend and it ends up having a clean/ fresh appearance.

Three Steps to Abstraction Project

       This project was very time consuming and not my favorite. However, anything with painting seems to take twice as long as just simply sketching something. I am not sure if I really like the outcome of the piece. Each picture to me looks different which really bothers me. I am a perfectionist and it sometimes leads to over criticizing my projects. I know that I will never be perfect but I try and get my projects to look as close to perfect as possible. If I could redo this project, I would pick something entirely different to paint. I don't really care for how this project looks. I like the background on this painting though, it helped out the picture a lot and made it pop off the page more.
        Overall, I feel I could have done better with this assignment. This project brought something to my attention and taught me something I didn't really know yet until now : I really prefer sketching!