Woohoo!! Spring Break is here!!

Spring break is finally here. This is the first time I have had a breather all semester. Not that I don't like being at school, however, this semester has been rather trying. Between Drawing II and the advanced ceramics seminar, it has been a bit hectic.
The advanced seminar has been extremely fun, though. Here are some of the projects I've been working on! (bonus of finished projects from figure sculpture last semester at the end!)

The first project we did for the seminar was to take a master ceramic artist that was working between the 1950s-1990s and recreate one of their pieces to the best of our ability and then create a response to it. I chose Jun Kaneko as my artist. (He is amazing by the way and if I could meet him one day I would be one of the happiest people alive. you should definitely look him up.) He currently works in Omaha and he has installations all over the U.S. and abroad. I chose one of his small "Dango" forms.

Both of them in progress. 

Working on of the forms before taking it off the table. It was about 2 feet at this point. I had to stand on a stool and having it on the banding wheel was a nightmare.

Front side, the blue and yellow one is my response to the original. 

Back side.

This is the second project. The project's title was Adorn. She is completely constructed out of porcelain with gold leaf.

Compare and Contrast drawing project.

Six skulls drawing project. I'm most happy with the top left skull.

This is Eve. She was sculpted in wax and then cast in bronze. She was the first project from figure sculpture.

Self Portrait Bust

Latest School Projects

This semester seems to have flown by! I can hardly believe there are only five weeks left. It has been extremely busy for me, between project deadlines and the increase in medical things I have had to do recently. All in all it hasn't been terrible. Hope y'all enjoy this semesters projects!

The first project in sculpture was the take an already created sculpture and morph it with and animal or everyday object. The sculpture I chose for this project was Eve or the Apple by Paul Roussel and I chose to morph it with a cobra snake. It was sculpted in wax. It is in the process of being cast in bronze. (Pictures of the finished bronze will be posted later.)

 The second project was a selef portrait bust. It turned out fairly well. It was sculpted in terra cotta.

The frist project in ceramics was the bowl project. I made my bowls for ice cream. I like to put a lot of toppings on my ice cream so I designed these so that the toppings wouldnt spill out onto the side of the bowl. Unfortunately the glazes we have are all on the dark side. 

 The second project inceramics was the cup project. We had to make five mugs and five tumblers. As you can see I went a little overboard. 

These are my favorit tumblers.

 The project we are finishing up at the moment was a lidded vessel project. We had to create a lidded vessel that was meant to contain something specific. Of course I made a collection of poison jars... Because why not! The smallest one is meant to contain hemlock, the medium one is meant for belladonna, and the largest one is for mandrake. I have a forth one for oleander but I forgot to take a picture before I put it on the bisque shelf. (Non of them well actually be holding what they are ment for. I'm jsut fascinated with poisonous plants...)

I hope you enjoyed the pictures! (I will be posting more pictures of the finished jars and final projects later.)

More Dragons!

Here are the latest Dragons!! I added another fandom Dragon. I hope y'all like them!

This is the Sherlock Dragon. I try to take the colors directly from the shows they are based on. I think he turned out pretty well.

This Dragon is not a fandom Dragon, but she turned out very well! She is a Sea Dragon.

I also branched out and made a little teddy bear!

Dragons!

Starting new mediums is always an exciting adventure. While I was in the hospital last week I embarked on just such a journey into polymer clay.

My nerd side reared its head while I was making these. These are based on Doctor Who and Merlin. I tend to jump into the hardest project I can think of, which is problematic for me at times. Luckily these turned out well! I would also like to thank Dragons and Beasties on Deviant Art for inspiring me to try these!

Here is how I made the Merlin dragon.

Sorry it's not very detailed, and I didn't take pictures of every step, but it's a general idea.

Hope y'all enjoy!