CERAMICS (Group Work)

These two towers that I made along with other people in my group, were the two things that I enjoyed doing the most, the reason is because it was something very different that we had ever done over these few months and it was also fun to do. 

For the first tower me and other couple of people decided to make a princess tower, Repunzel's tower from the Disney Movie called ''TANGLED''. We didn't get a chance to let it go through the process of drying and firing, but it was great to do and I really enjoyed building it up.We used a carton tall tube of about at least 30-40 cm long and we wrapped newspaper around the tube to prevent the clay to stick to the actual tube. To build up the actual tower, we used the coil technique of which was very easy, fast and simple to do as we used a machine to turn the clay into big long sausages, those clay sausages were attached to the tube, wrapped in newspaper, very tight to it to form a tower. After so, we smoothed it out with our fingers and a tool called ''kidney'' that is used to smooth out the clay around without creating lumps etc. The face of Repunzel was made through a Barbie mould and the hair was done through the ''spaghetti'' tool.

 I honestly liked it and to be honest I didn't know that we were capable of doing such a tower. it was fantastic.











The other tower that me and other people did in one group was a person sat down on the chair. To make this clay person we used one of our partner in our team to pose and so we tried our best to make the clay person look exactly like her. This one, is my favourite out of all of the things that I did in ceramics, because it showed to us , and in particular to me, how much we are capable of doing amazing things when you're in a team of people who are hard-working and creative.

DIFFERENT STAGES OF OUR MODEL:

We measured different pieces of wood on her entire body to make sure we got right proportions

We then attached the different pieces together to make the structure of the person.

We then started to apply some clay to it but at some point we kind of realised how
the shoulders weren't at the right place, which is why we started to compare it
to whom we were trying to make the model from. 

When we fixed the problem we wont on and added hair to it, applied more clay
around it, smoothed it out with our fingers, some slip and a kidney.

AND THIS WAS THE FINAL MODEL:

EVALUATION:                                                    

When I compare it to the actual person, what I've realised is that it looks very similar which is why this one was my favourite ceramic project I've done in a day, to be honest me and my group did a great job and I think If we had to do anything else in future as a group it would be something much greater than this. If there's anything that me and my group would improve about it, it would be the proportion; as you can see the legs are a bit too long and look like small sticks, another thing that me and my group would improve would also be the smoothness of the face and the arm, apart from that we are pretty happy about it.