13-01-2020 Reflection on Mini Project The Head Week 1

I enjoyed the texture, weight and stability of the crank-Stonewear. The grainy textures are exposed through working with tools and scraping. I had to expose the grains.

My first larger head was worked under my influence of the cameo. Flattening the form in the way the cameo is a flattened but 3D piece. The building method was new to me, tearing a slab and building up from this. This creates beautiful leafy forms. I would like to develop this and create a cabbage-like head. Whether I choose to add facial details is unknown presently. I am choosing to let the clay and form decide this and direct me. I want to see my marks in the clay. 

(At the leather hard stage... I then chose to keep the facial detailing minimal and did not add further clay, but made marks to indicate features. I am hoping to pick this up with glaze. I will therefore choose a semi transparent glaze. I am not sure if I have in fact underworked the piece, but to me this was more of a sketch, to learn a way of working.)

My second form was an egg-like head. I enjoyed the weight and feel of it without the addition of ears/a neck. I am waiting to see how it fires and may leave it unglazed or potentially use and earthenware glaze so that i can use stilts and glaze the entire surface. A bit like a ‘human-egg’. I would like to make another of these or even a few more, to gain knowledge of working the clay in this fashion - joining two pinch pots and pushing and cutting to create detail.