Continuing to explore clay

This week we have been continuing to explore clay techniques. This week, we made cylinder forms from clay and so using the theme of shells, I recreated a coral that appears as though sea creatures including shells has stuck to it over time.

Clay Techniques

 This week we have been continuing to use our drawings of organic and industrial objects to influence our work. This week we are using clay to explore different techniques.
SCRAFFITO scraffito is a technique in which you roll and cut out a piece of red/terracotta clay and coat it In a white decorating clay slip. You then leave it for 2-3 days before scratching into it a design with a sharp wooden stick, scalpel or for fine detail, a pin. SLAB FORM A slab form begins the same way as a scraffito piece, you roll and cut out a piece of clay (grey or red) and you may either work into it or add to it. By working into it you can impress marks either by carving or using a stamp. To add onto it to achieve a clay relief, you just raise images out of the slab form using other, small pieces of clay.

Glass Fusing/ Slumping

Glass fusing is a technique in which you have two clear piece of glass, say both are square, that are the same size. Between these two pieces of clay, you can put other small pieces of glass that are different colours, Frits, and bent wire shapes. Once you have a design that you're happy with, you place it in a kiln at 850c and the two pieces of clear glass will fuse together, sealing the design within it. Glass slumping is where there is a dent within a glad piece, and before it is placed in the kiln, small pieces of coloured/plain glass in placed in it, when it comes out of the kiln, the glass would have melted into its shape, filling the hole.

Organic/Industrial Drawings And Sculptures

In this first week of our 3D brief, we were given organic (skulls, shells, bones etc.) and industrial (drills, gears, clamps etc.) objects to draw. From these object drawings, we made organic and industrial simple sculptures made from planar (in flat form e.g. Paper, card) and linear (in lines e.g. Dowel, wire, straws) materials to recreate all, or part of these drawings in an interesting way.

3D Organic Industrial - New Brief

In this new brief, I will follow a series of organised studio sessions and workshops that will introduce different materials and techniques in 3D, sculpture and surface design. 

    I must record and present my back up notes, design drawings in my sketchbook, and my 3D activities with any outcomes / samples I can produce. Evaluate the effectiveness of my work in my sketchbook, and finally, create one final substantial outcome based on explorations of the working title Organic/ Industrial. 

I must also explore the following 3D materials and techniques:

 Planar materials

 Linear materials 

 Ceramics and glass techniques

 Carving and relief techniques

 Surface Pattern and decoration

visual communication final piece

For the final piece of visual communication, we had to design a perfume bottle. We had to initially come up with a logo, and a name logo, and of course, the bottle itself. We had to think about the box and the way the label would be on the bottle. After weeks of planning we had to come out with a final drawing to present our bottle as if we were to present it for selling. We had to take into account, the tone, ellipsis and other formal elements.