Blog on Clay

Clay was a hard material to use. I thought it was challenging because it was easy to mess up on. We had to make an animal, something with texture, and we got to choose the last thing we wanted to make. I started with making an animal because thats what i felt most comfortable with. I thought this was the easiest to make out of all of them because i have more experience making animals with clay. I thought that making a bowl was the most difficult. This was hard for me because i used the pottery wheel. The pottery wheel was very hard to use and i would always mess my bowl up. I found myself always making a hole through it or making it not symmetrical like i wanted it to be. I think if we had more time to learn how to use the wheel it would have been easier and fun. It was cool getting to learn the different ways you could add textures and materials to it.

making paper

When I started making paper i thought it would be cool to add something unique to mine. I saw how everyone was making theirs and I didn't want mine to be just paper. I wanted to make sure that when you saw it you could tell it was mine. I started off with choosing the color pink because i had chosen a green plant to put into it. I liked this colors together and thought it would look cool. After i had blended, sponged, and flipped my paper, I laid my green plant on top of it. As it dried it looked really cool but a student ripped it of. I mod podged it back on and put a glossy layer on it to make it shiny. This also made it more durable and prettier. I think it looks really cool and glad I added the extra touches to it.