Together.
The awesome glaze did some cool things on the irregularities of the face-off statue.
This one is water-tight and has no damage. You know, besides the whole face being blown off thing. I’m looking forward to drinking the still-warm blood of my enemies yummy margaritas out of it.
Even if my statue-cup didn’t leak, I wouldn’t use it to drink out of because of this crack. This makes it very fragile because any impact would be concentrated on this already-damaged point.
This crack is also due to the piece drying too fast.
These cracks inside the Easter Island statue are the reason it leaks. Porcelain clay needs to dry slowly, and I broke that rule. Also, everything made with porcelain clay should have consistent thickness throughout the piece, and I broke that rule in a big way.
I do like how the color came out (it’s a little darker than this shot). I wanted it to look like blood has been drunk out of it in a bizarre pagan ritual.
The third iteration was made with consistent thickness in mind and is currently drying s-l-o-w-l-y in a plastic bag with a tiny vent at the bottom in a cabinet of the pottery classroom. I’ll finish it in the Fall session.
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In this close-up, you can see the natural, aged look the glaze gives the piece. The mottled reddish parts and the green accents governed by the topology contribute to the look. I like that the lip-groove is a nice line of green, like something is growing in there.
Google results for “Sinead O’Connor.”
ALL BALD WOMEN LOOK THE SAME, AMIRITE?
So racist.
(via thekeri)
Here it is at a slightly different angle and in direct sunlight, like the real ones are usually photographed.
TA DAAAA!!
IT’S ALIVE!
Well, it survived.
The glaze came out just like I hoped. There are little green details strewn about (close-ups to follow), and the main color is quite pleasing. The glossiness (Everythin’s shiny, Cap’n!) accentuates the details in the shape, like the jawline and cheekbone curvature that I worked hard to replicate from the original Easter Island statues.
When I arrived at pottery class, I got the news: There was a disaster in the kiln.
Someone glazed a pot before bisque firing. The water-based glaze made the piece too wet and it exploded all over the kiln, ruining everything that was in there.
BUT!
The instructor left my Easter Island statue out to make sure that it was completely dry (even though it had been bisque fired), so this time I was the only one who avoided disaster.
YAY!
I brought in my first iteration (the one whose face blew off in the bisque firing) to glaze it. The new glaze will do interesting things on all the angles and rough terrain where it broke apart.
If they survive…
That looks dog-gone blashphemous!
The look on the dog’s face is KILLING me.
She’s dyslexic and thinks she’s married to Dog.
(Source: godparty)
Apologies to the people who heard me make that sound when I read this.
Nope.
Still not getting old.
