Materials:

 

•  Needle tool
• Scratching tool
• Pointing tool
• Canva
• Wire Cutter
• Kiln
• Clay  

 

My Process:

1. First of all, I divided they clay into pieces using a wire cutter, and got the relevant amount for my work.
2. I started my work with a canvas under it.
3. Briefly shaped the clay and adumbrated my plan, I was focusing on magical and naturalism, and I shaped a base first for my other items and started to shape the main items and external decorations.
4. After shaping the clays, I needed to stick all the items together to become one piece of work, I stuck them together by using scratching tool in which scratches the clay and make the clay adhesive when contact with water.
5. After sticking them together, I started decorating the clay by using needle tool and pointing tool. Needle tools are used for smaller details and pointing tools are for bigger details. The tools would make my work looks unclean which I would need to fix them in the next step.
6. As I mentioned, I needed to fix the unclean parts created by the tools, I split some water on it and smooth it by hands.
7. Dry the clay for 2 weeks and put it into the kiln

 

Artistic Response:

 

Inspiration:

I got the idea from my previous artworks, which are focusing on naturalism. However, I wanted to do something quite different, so I added a new element, magical, the idea of magical was inspired by the book I’m reading, named Harry Potter.

 

Analysis of artwork:

Simply put, my artwork looks like an island, there’s an apple tree and “brick” mountain which doesn’t exist in real-life, I created an approximate same amount of space between items on the island, so It looks more balanced. In my artwork, I’m trying to emphasise the tallest feature, I drew more details focusing on the tallest feature which creates a contrast between features.

 

It was really hard to shape the clay, especially for smaller details, it would also produce residues of clay and make the artwork looks very unclean.

Shaping the clay was also really difficult because the actual artwork would look very different than your thought to that artwork.  

 

Evaluation:

In my work                                                             In my peers work

Line: the outline of my artwork looks a little incomplete, more details could have been added.	Not too many details, only the shape
Shape: the shape of my work looks ok, just needed to clean more residues.	Detailed shape, creative decorations
Space: I created a relevant space for each feature.	She has two separate artworks, good spacing between decorations
Texture: My artwork creates good texture by decorating details. For example, my apple tree, I made the trunk looks more realistic.	She barely decorated her artwork with more realistic details, couldn’t see the texture.

 

Self-Assessment:

 

Pattern: Could have applied more patterns into my artwork. My thought to this artwork was magical, but the patterns I drew are focusing on realistic, so I could have added more creative patterns.

 

Emphasis: couldn’t really emphasise the brick mountain, could have used other better ways.