Feather bowl

I have published a picture of this already, but this is the final outcome, on top of what I did to the bowl I added manganese oxide and bitter honey glaze, I love how it turned out because it looks old and rustic with some of the slip coming off and revealing the white clay underneath giving me the yellow colour, the oxide has made the feathers tinted blue and the effect makes it look stand out and 3D. If I were to do this again I would keep the pattern I have but I think I would have tried out different colours to glaze it with.

Plaster Mould

    This is one of the first outcomes I did in year two, to do this I started to press certain objects from my red project into clay. I choose a Christmas light, a pin scissors and a knitting needle. Then once I built up the walls I poured plaster into my mold it came out like this, but to make the objects stand out I sanded down the objects so they look white against the red clay that got stuck onto my plaster mold to make it look more professional. I then cut off the edges to leave a square around it. This outcome is one of my favorites so far because I love how rustic it looks. I think that if I did this again I would try different objects to see if I could get better molds.

Uncompleted feather bowl

    

This is my first final outcome in process from my colour project, I chose red, so therefore I chose white clay with a red slip, and I think my carving came out better than I expected it to. My idea of this bowl came from my grandmothers interest in birds, I was out the back with my grandmother, we were bird watching then a family of robins flew into our back garden, looking at their red feathers I realised I had some in my home. When it came to the design I first wanted to write 'RED' all over the bowl but after doing tester pieces I realised it looked too plain, so I went back to my sketch book and looked at some of the objects I had collected. I found the feather i was looking for then after about six different design ideas I realised I had not tried doing different sized feathers and I much preferred it like that, so I spend time carving this bowl making sure I had enough detail to make them look a little realistic.