Final Draft Reflection–Summative D–Pattern Tile – Evelyn Chao

For this project we did designs and shapes on a 15 by 15 slab. We started out with cutting the clay with a wire cutter to make it a smaller piece of clay. After the clay is cut, I made the clay flat with 1.5 – 2 as a thickness. I chose the shape square because it was very basic and simple to carve shapes onto it. I carved a checkerboard pattern and wave patterns with some little curves to make it more detailed. I created the patterns with the needle tool and a carving tool.

I think my patterns were too simple and could have been more different. I think the hardest design to do was the checkerboard because I had to make the texture by carving the clay out of certain parts of the clay.