Pottery I show and tell!

Yay for pottery! This was such an amazing experience. I had a really awesome (and accomplished) professor who's body of work is similar to what I like, so I couldn't have been more privileged. It took me a while to get the hang of it but I was able to make a teapot by the end of the class :D Here's a few of my favorite pieces. I'm hoping to build on some of these ideas. 

I really wanted a jar that said ¡azucar! in honor of Celia Cruz and for the fact that my family simply doesn't have a sugar jar.

At NCECA I snagged a bunch of decals to see what they were all about. I like using them; hopefully I'll come up with an interesting set with the remainder of decals I have.

Chinese character for love, "ài." My friend Ninh was teaching me some of his brush stroke techniques.

This lil' dude is one of 5 mugs, all with different expressions. I really want to make a ton more of these!

My first cylinder >__>....

Poop pendants! Ok so it's not pottery but I'm still into jewelry.

I finished all of the assignments in class with enough time for my professor to teach me how to throw a teapot. I can strain my tea in it and everything! ^_^

Needless to say I'm looking forward to pottery II now that I know what I'm doing (sort of, haha). I experimented alot in this class, especially with the glazes. I'm a little bit bummed that I wont have easy access to a wheel for a couple of months but I just bought 25lbs of clay to play with over the summer, so I'll be making pinch pots and trays and other fun handbuilt things. You can check out the rest of my work from the class over on my facebook page.

Drawing I Show and Tell

This is some of the work I did in my drawing class. Not all of the pieces are photographed yet, but here's what I got so far :) Everything is chronological. We started off the semester with boxes (not shown) and line drawings. Then we moved on to blocking the different areas of light and dark, followed by paper studies, followed by drapery studies, then facial features, and lastly models. then we did two still lives on grey paper for our final (one not shown...yet...). This was a tough class for me to commit to because I've taken drawing I a few semester back at a previous school, so it was easy to slack off. I thought that taking it again would be better for me because I wasn't confident in my drawing (I also was too lazy to fill out the paper work to transfer credits from yet another school, ha). I was fortunate enough to have a tough professor who was more confident in my abilities than I was and didn't let me get off easy. He really took his job seriously!

TTFN!<3
-Avé