Pottery techniques:

Mishima Technique: Basically, the first step is to make a sculpture. After  making the sculpture, the artist carves in their design to the clay. Once the design is carved, the next step is to paint glaze over the entire surface area. After glazing it, the artist is to take a wet sponge  and wipe off the  glaze to make it so glaze is only in the crevices  so the design can appear.

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Sgraffito Technique: In this technique, the first step again is to make the sculpture. Next they use underglaze to paint the whole thing. Once everything is painted, the artist THEN carves the design into the clay.

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SKETCH:

Sprigging: For sprigging you basically make a thin piece, and then make a plaster mold to easily make more  of the same pieces for decorating.

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Slip trailing: the application of slip to a clay surface using a fine tip to make designs

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Impressed texture: To achieve an impressed texture, you just press something that has a design into a flat surface of clay. 

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PERSONAL  EXAMPLES:

Mishima

Sgraffito

Sprigging

Impressing

Slip Trailing

Yun  Hee Lee (Lee Yun Hee)

Lee Yun Hee is a famous Korean ceramist. She has a bachelors degree in ceramics and a masters degree. She has been apart of 60+ group exhibitions since 2006 and has had 6+ solo exhibitions. Since then, she has received 11 major ceramics  awards. Lee Yun Hee is still in her twenties, and though she is extremely young, she has developed an entirely unique style.

My Favorite Piece:

 This piece is the most different of her pieces; it does not have a person in it and is not symmetric. This piece has very faint colors in the  part that appears to be almost like an alter. The places full of color are the top and the bottom. The bottom part is my very favorite because of the way the flowers and color scheme work together to bring it to life. Like all of Lee Yun Hee's pieces, this one is exquisitely constructed.

Water Color Piece

High Museum Inspiration Sketch

Back/Mid/Fore ground piece

Last 3- Piece (water color)

Water Color Reference Pictures:

Background references

"Art by the Drums"

The artist whom I feel I relate to the most is Sharon Cummings. Sharon Cummings earned her degree from the University of Tampa. She worked under Dorothy Denham until Denham's death in 1999. Cummings continued to make art and specialize in abstracts, moderns, landscapes, and florals by request. Sharon Cummings still makes art and inspires many to this day. In her work, I see many of the same themes conveyed as in mine. Many of her modern paintings include whimsical recreations of animals, something I relate to completely. Other paintings by her express music, which is an inspiration for a multitude of my creations.

A. Description:  It looks like what she did was maybe sketch out the drums in pencil and then go back with a wet brush and create a pool of water where she wanted to put the watercolor. The painting combines warm and cool colors to create a silhouette of a drum set. Each of the warm and cool colors varies in value from the lightest to darkest shade of that color. While their is lots of negative space, the painting does not look unfinished.

B. Analysis: "Art by the Drums" is a painting/ watercolor piece that portrays an image of a drum set. Different parts of the drum are colored differently, and not even necessarily with too much meaning behind that. While the drums are depicted as a still life, through the vibrancies, you can almost imagine the noise that would be coming from the drums themselves. The use of such contrasting values, unique texture, and relationship between the focal point and background enrich this  picture.

C. Interpretation: The main theme of this painting is the concept of art in general. Art varies in many ways just as the values of color range in a multitude of ways. The art piece is not only art itself but is depicting another form of art: music. Music was easily a heavy influence on this picture not only for the subject, but also the style in which it was painted, using a combination of warm and cool colors and intense values portraying vibrancies and noise.

D. Judgement: Sharon Cummings "Art by the Drums" piece is my favorite piece by her. This piece is inspiring to me because of the simplicity. I like that each of the colors range in value and are not just either warm or cool, but both. I also love the fact that it is a painting of an instrument, mostly because music is an inspiration for so many or my pieces. However, I also like the subject because music in itself is its own form of art.