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Ceramic Bowl Artist Statement

I am posting my artist statement for my ceramic bowl project from my art class, the class that I am in is Introduction to Visual Arts. Mrs. Seitz has us post our art work on our website to show what we do and the process we take when doing it. We put a lot of time and effort into it, I hope you enjoy reading about my ceramic bowl process and looking at it.

My artwork is a ceramic bowl with two colors of glaze, on the top rim it is a matte yellow, the bottom and the middle is a speckled white. The bowl matches the matching mugs that I made last year during Ceramics 1. The title of my bowl is speckled with happiness. The most obvious elements in the project would be shape, looking at it you can see the structure and how it was put together.  Another would be texture, you can see that the white speckle is shiny and looks smooth but when you look at the yellow you can see that it isn’t shiny and feels less smooth and less soft. 

The tools that I used for this project was a needle tool, smoothing tool, a sponge, painting brush, and a spray bottle. The process I used to make this was we started out with choosing the outline of it, we had a small square on the bottom. But we didn’t just cut out the square, we took an even bigger square of clay and then cut in lines coming from the corners of the small square in the middle. With this we carefully brought the four pieces up and smoothed them together in the form of a kind of square bowl. From there we stamped in words that described or reminded us of the year of 2020. After we put it into the kiln we picked out our glazes to put on. Each section of the part we glazed took three coats, then we put it into the kiln for one last time and when it is done you are finished. 

What inspired my artwork was just the fact that I already had mugs that were matching so I thought that I could put one more thing to match them. My project does not represent a social or personal issue. I genuinely didn’t show much emotion in this project mainly because ceramics isn’t really my thing. 

For me my goal as an artist is to be able to draw or sketch the realistic parts of a face. Over the summer I worked on sketching eyes, but one eye took me up to forty-five minutes. This piece didn’t really help me to try and reach or achieve my goal, but on my next piece I hope to attempt at part of my goal.

The final piece was a lot of what I expected, the only thing that I didn’t think was going to work out was glazing the bottom, but it worked out good. What kind of changed last minute was the fact that I put my quote on the inside of my bowl instead of on the bottom. 

I am posting my artist statement for my line art project from my art class, the class that I am in is Introduction to Visual Arts. Mrs. Seitz has us post our art work on our website to show what we do and the process we take when doing it. We put a lot of time and effort into it, I hope you enjoy reading about my line art process and looking at it.

My artwork looks like different shapes all randomly scattered on a piece of paper. It is full of the color purple and you can see a good amount of yellow and green as well. I titled my artwork Fizzy Pop. You can most visibly see value and lines. 

The media of my portfolio is made up of circles of all different sizes and some triangles. I used different stencils to draw these objects out. The process of this project started with us drawing random lines on a piece of paper until we are pleased with the outcome. You will do that two more times and will have three different layouts of designs, you will choose which one you like the most and make three photo copies of it. Once you have them you get to lay them all out together to have the matching corners meet on the inside. You can make four different designs out of it and then you choose which one you like best. You then tape all of the pieces together and trace them out onto another piece of paper. Then you have your new design and can begin to color it. 

As we were drawing these little pieces of art we were listening to music and the music I was listening to gave me this 70’s and 80’s vibe so that’s why my artwork looks like that. I think I drew it like this because I love the 70’s and 80’s and I wish that I could grow up to enjoy that time and style. I showed happiness in my artwork with the bright colors that I chose. 

For me my goal as an artist is to be able to draw or sketch the realistic parts of a face. Over the summer I worked on sketching eyes, but one eye took me up to forty-five minutes. This piece didn’t really help me to try and reach or achieve my goal, but on my next piece I hope to attempt at part of my goal.

I am posting my artist statement for my portfolio from my art class, the class that I am in is Introduction to Visual Arts. Mrs. Seitz has us post our art work on our website to show what we do and the process we take when doing it. We put a lot of time and effort into it, I hope you enjoy reading a looking at my portfolio.

My artwork has a border around it and on the inside, three quarters have little hexagons everywhere. There are a couple of hexagons that are filled in with black sharpy and the rest just have a black outline. On the quarter of the portfolio that doesn’t have the hexagon shapes, has mine name looking as though it is being traced from the trail of a bumble bee. I named my portfolio art piece “honey.” You can see shape and line very obviously in my portfolio. 

In my art portfolio I traced a printed out copy of a hexagon to get that honey comb kind of effect. The process started out with finding the desired size and then cutting it out, then I proceeded to trace it out onto a notecard to make the tracing paper thicker. After I had my stencil type thing, I began to trace out all the hexagons. When I had finished all of the tracing/outlines of the shape, I then went through and traced over them with a fine point sharpie. 

When I am bored or feeling artistic, I go on pinterest and see these cute paintings that I want to do in the future and I saw some honey comb looking sketches that drew my attention. Not necessarily, if you looked at it in a certain way you could perceive it in a way that comes across as saving the bees, but not really. In this particular piece there wasn’t much emotion behind it besides that fact that I felt mesmerized by the honey comb as it formed. 

For me my goal as an artist is to be able to draw or sketch the realistic parts of a face. Over the summer I worked on sketching eyes, but one eye took me up to forty-five minutes. This piece didn’t really help me to try and reach or achieve my goal, but on my next piece I hope to attempt at part of my goal. 

What I learned from this project was that small precise things take a long time and you have to be patient because the process might be a little rough or shaky, but the outcome might be amazing. Honestly the final piece turned out to be a lot better than what I expected, I was kind of hoping that we would be able to use color so I could make the border almost look like dripping honey, but I can save that for some time else. This piece will help my further projects, because this will help me to challenge myself to try harder and to achieve my goal sooner rather than later.