I went to the exhibition Transform and really loved the work by Nuala O'Donovan and Jennifer Hickey. I looked at the movement of the leaves - swirling, and also at what happened to the leaves over time. They dried out and curled inwards. From there I started working on some paper rolling.
I took some pictures of some leaves
I rolled some paper into cone shapes (replicating the shape of dried leaves)
I started attaching them together
I wanted them to be in the shape of a swirl, like what leaves do in the wind
I hung it up on the window beside my studio space. I love the way it looks. It was very delicate as it was made of paper. I wanted to explore this further with ceramics.
I went to a ceramics workshop and for the first time ever used clay!! It was great!! I rolled out some clay and cut out squares. I then coned them and started joining them together.
It then went in to be fired
After that it had to be glazed. I used a Red Iron Oxide glaze. This colour leaves a brown rusty colour. This was to imply dried leaves. This glaze was painted on with a brush and sponge. At different stages of the painting, I ran it under the tap and this gave it various shades.
Final step, it had to be fired again.
I really loved working with this. Hope to get to the Ceramics Dept. again before Christmas break!
No comments:
Post a Comment