In this unit we worked with clay and focused on its molding and glazing. For this unit we were assigned to make a face mug, and were given a lot of creative freedom. My inspiration was No Face from famous director, Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. The making of the cylinder and base was rather easy, simply molding and cutting the clay into a rectangle and then rolling it and joining the two edges, after that I traced the bottom of the cylinder into another piece of clay which I then cut out to make the bottom. After attaching the piece together with scoring, I then moved on to the actual face of my mug. This part was a little more tricky as free handing wasnt working so I ended up printing out a picture and then tracing it onto clay with tiny holes which marked the way for me to carve out my clay. After cutting out and scoring my face onto the mug I then let it sit and be fired before I moved onto glazing. Using Mulberry, Jet Black, and White I glazed my mug with three layer or each of the colors and quickly learned that White glaze can not cover up the Jet Black. This unit was a good refresher for me as I had completely forgotten to and how to score clay in order to attach thing. I found it very fun although if I were to do it over again I'd find someway to prevent the black and white near the mouth and eyes from mixing and overlapping which made it a tad muddy. Other than this small flaw I do very much like my mug and its probably my favorite work so far.
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