Year 3 WORK!

Carrying on with the theme of Found Objects, I first collected a wide range of objects which I found around the home and other places.

 To start my work I have to create moulds from the objects I did this straight away as I was thrilled to get started and create objects.

To start off with I did some test tiles, I had some terracotta clay left over so I decided to use this and used coloured slips over the top and added textures to them. I was very pleased with the out come.

So I began drawing and came up with these ideas shown in the image below. To experiment with colour I decided to add stains to the slip to see what this would look like. I did some examples and this is how they came out, but unfortunately i applied to much glaze on the pieces so they so they don’t look to nice.

So back to the development stage, I went back to the moulds and did a lot of slip casting so I had a look of shapes to work with. So with having all the objects around me I started experimenting with them by cutting them in half, turning them upside down, cutting areas away and so on.

I as I liked the feel of the terracotta clay I bought some in slip form, and did some casts in this. Then I added to coloured slips to the casted objects to show a variation from the white background to the brown background to see how the glazes/slips react to the different clay bodies. 

SO with the first batch back I began to glaze the pieces, I used a clear glaze on two pieces. One being completely white and then with the coloured slip an area came out blue and used the clear glaze over the top. I like this as the area came out more as a block of colour. Experimenting with the clear glaze with stain in here are a few tests which I have done. I am not pleased with these, so I shall keep on experimenting further.