I chose to recreate the piece Raqqa II by Frank Philip Stella. This piece grabbed my attention immediately with all of the vibrant colors, and I thought that the unique shapes could combine in an interesting way for a sculpture. I wanted to isolate all of the individual shapes seen in the painting, and combine them in a way that would make a unique sculpture. I made a bunch of arches and shapes, and then figured out a way to combine them. Combining the pieces got increasingly difficult because the more I added the more intricate the shape became. To hold up some of the arches I had to use paper towels that would burn away in the kiln. Once it was fired I went through all of the glazes and selected the colors that were most similar to the painting. I didn't really consider how difficult painting each side a different color was going to be until I was in the process of doing it. I am currently finishing up painting a second coat of each color of glaze before putting it back into the kiln for a glaze firing.
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I'm a little late on taking the in progress pictures for this project, but my object to art involved a lava lamp. I wanted to create an eel that could fit over the lava lamp to make the eel "electric," but the eel looks like a sock puppet now. Either way it's cute, and I like it. To make this I started with the base rolled around a PVC pipe, and then made coils up the rest of the way through the face. The eyes were attached separately. Then I went through and cut out the holes for the lava lamp, and traced where I wanted the spots to be. After going through the kiln I painted it, and the first picture is after the first glaze firing. After the glaze firing the blue came through a little splotchy, so I added another coat of the blue glaze. It went through the kiln for a second time with glaze, and then I was done!
I picked a lava lamp because I was trying to think of objects that I have laying around my house that I haven't used in forever, and I remembered that I have a lava lamp in my room that I haven't used in forever. I thought it could be cool to put something on the outside of the lava lamp to make it so the glowing part was on the inside of something. I thought of the eel because the lava lamp could make it "electric." I was torn between an eel and a jellyfish, but I figured that the shape of the eel would go better with the shape of the lava lamp. |
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