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The pinch pots that I created were a means of getting to know more about constructing with clay and the different ways in which the clay sculptures could be colored. Through the project, I learned different ways to make my pinch pots have texture, lids, handles, feet, spouts, and other distinctive features. The pinch pot project also exposed me to different types of paints and glazes that could make my pots have a glossy, glass-like finish, or a matte, acrylic paint-type underglaze.
Although the purpose of the assignment was to merely know more about clay shaping using the pinching technique and playing around with different types of glazes, my overall vision was to create works of art that evidently show an improvement in my skills as an artist. I wanted my last works in the pinch pot unit to depict that I learned new skills throughout the unit and applied them in my later artworks. Like what I envisioned, I do believe that my artworks reflect a sense of growth in terms of artistry, style, and skill because whereas my first artworks like the maze pinch pot and the “hunny” pot are pots used with very basic and fundamental methods of pinching, my later pots such as the pineapple house and the hedgehog show a greater variety of ways in which pinching was used to make the pots, such as pinching into triangles to make the top of the pineapple, or using the pinching method to create the ears, feet, and the body of the hedgehog itself. Also, whereas the first pinch pots only use one or no characteristic of pinch pots that we learned in class at a time, such as the “hunny” pot having no characteristics and the maze pot having inner texture, my later artworks use many different characteristics of pinch pots, such as outside texture, feet, lids, and piercing all in one (pineapple house). This shows that I am comfortable with using many different features of pinch pots at once to incorporate them into one pot.
My artwork was greatly influence by the small hobbies that I enjoy in my daily life and the things that I like, and thus greatly resembles me. For example, the pineapple house reflects my love for the television show Spongebob, and the “hunny” pot, Winnie the Pooh. Although my pots did have to face several adversities, such as breakage due to the fragility in which my pots were made with, and the technical difficulties that I had with my dipping glaze in my hedgehog, I think I still made the artwork look “artistic” despite the difficulties by making it rather natural by gluing the broken pieces together and embracing the color that I achieved by baking the hedgehog two times. I plan to use my artworks, such as the pineapple house, as decor in my room, and also as objects that can be used in my daily life. For example, I think I will use the organic pot as my dog’s food bowl, because it is artistic and more unique than the food bowls that I see in stores.
Although the purpose of the assignment was to merely know more about clay shaping using the pinching technique and playing around with different types of glazes, my overall vision was to create works of art that evidently show an improvement in my skills as an artist. I wanted my last works in the pinch pot unit to depict that I learned new skills throughout the unit and applied them in my later artworks. Like what I envisioned, I do believe that my artworks reflect a sense of growth in terms of artistry, style, and skill because whereas my first artworks like the maze pinch pot and the “hunny” pot are pots used with very basic and fundamental methods of pinching, my later pots such as the pineapple house and the hedgehog show a greater variety of ways in which pinching was used to make the pots, such as pinching into triangles to make the top of the pineapple, or using the pinching method to create the ears, feet, and the body of the hedgehog itself. Also, whereas the first pinch pots only use one or no characteristic of pinch pots that we learned in class at a time, such as the “hunny” pot having no characteristics and the maze pot having inner texture, my later artworks use many different characteristics of pinch pots, such as outside texture, feet, lids, and piercing all in one (pineapple house). This shows that I am comfortable with using many different features of pinch pots at once to incorporate them into one pot.
My artwork was greatly influence by the small hobbies that I enjoy in my daily life and the things that I like, and thus greatly resembles me. For example, the pineapple house reflects my love for the television show Spongebob, and the “hunny” pot, Winnie the Pooh. Although my pots did have to face several adversities, such as breakage due to the fragility in which my pots were made with, and the technical difficulties that I had with my dipping glaze in my hedgehog, I think I still made the artwork look “artistic” despite the difficulties by making it rather natural by gluing the broken pieces together and embracing the color that I achieved by baking the hedgehog two times. I plan to use my artworks, such as the pineapple house, as decor in my room, and also as objects that can be used in my daily life. For example, I think I will use the organic pot as my dog’s food bowl, because it is artistic and more unique than the food bowls that I see in stores.