Clay project. (And general RAWR.)
We had our critique today.
I think I mentioned this, but my concept was "together alone" (or "alone together", really can't remember how I phrased it when I came up with it). I have three-dimensional figures attached to the outsides of the two lanterns. They're supposed to be standing next to each other. Painted on (because I couldn't decide/figure out if I should paint them or make reliefs of them) are two groups of people, on the opposite sides of each lantern, away from the two figures. The whole thing was a story in my head that I explained: There are two parties going on, one person from each party gets annoyed with it and leaves, meets the other person outside, and the two just kind of stand outside looking at the stars together. The lantern aspect comes from the idea that I wanted to be able to stick candles into them. Light would shine straight up out of the top, as well as out of the holes I poked in near the top to represent stars. The people are together alone rather than with everyone else, looking at the stars, which are also together alone (in the sky)--that part was Bethany's idea.
One girl got completely stuck on the party aspect and was like, "It looks like they were never at the party." Well, a) the point was that they've left their respective parties, and b) it'd be kinda weird for two people that don't know each other to randomly be wearing party hats, wouldn't it? -_- Bethany didn't agree with her on that, but I did catch flack for the forms of the people painted on, which I know look bad. The 3D figures have mass to them, while the painted figures are elongated and skinny. Painting with slip, with a brush, on a tapering vertical surface is not easy. And I couldn't tilt the forms over because I would have messed up the 3D figures. I might take the painted figures off and do them over again after designing templates for them, but that involves having to actually make a stencil, and I hate making stencils. So it's either make the stencils and be insanely annoyed, or repaint the figures freehand, and once either of those processes is done, I have to carve into the clay a bit to kind of make them stand out. I have to open up the holes at the top, too. They're not quite big enough, but I only used my pin tool to make them, so yeah, they wouldn't be big. I'm disappointed with how it went, but I'll just have to revise it on the weekend. This is not getting into how the hell to color the damn things. Regular glazing would cause an issue with the star holes, low-fire glazing would be all right if I don't then use a high-fire glaze for anything, and Bethany did bring up an airbrushing method, but I dunno. She said we'll have to test things out.
Another person said it looked like the 3D figures left to go play in the snow, and I don't even.
EMMA.
The girl is not serious about class at all. As usual, I came back from CS at 12:57 to find her in front of the mirror. That's not the problem. The problem is that she doesn't come straight to class even though she knows she's late. She goes to Muddy to get food, and she brings the food back to our room, and she eats, THEN she comes to class. She comes in, consistently, sometime between 1:30 and 2:00 every single class. And then she spends the entirety of class sketching and not paying attention to anything we're doing, to the point that Bethany had to tell her at least four times today to put the sketchbook down on the table and actually pay attention to what's going on. She also didn't do the assignment right, probably because she doesn't pay attention. I don't know if she's like this because she's planning on transferring to an art school and doesn't see the need to do things the right way, or if she's actually just the biggest ditz in the world. It wouldn't annoy me as much if we weren't roommates. If I didn't know her personally, I would just assume she comes in late all the time because of conflicts or something, but I see what she does firsthand and it drives me up the wall. I'm curious about how she'll fair in an art school. Pretty sure they don't play that shit. Hell, I'm curious what Bethany's going to give her at the end of the semester. She does nice work, but her habits are freaking terrible.
I'm in a bad mood today. -_- I overslept this morning and missed religion, the temperature was 50 this morning, but it was freezing when I left because there hasn't been any sun all day, the critique was fail, and my roommate's a dumbass. Positives? 88 on my math exam, there won't be any homework due since we haven't actually done anything all week, math project's submitted, and the lab and program for CS that were due tomorrow and Monday, respectively, have both been pushed back to Wednesday. This means time to focus on clay and hopefully get everything right. There's no class next week for clay, but next week starts the firing schedule, plus we HAVE been given our last project, and I need to start that this weekend, too.
I think I mentioned this, but my concept was "together alone" (or "alone together", really can't remember how I phrased it when I came up with it). I have three-dimensional figures attached to the outsides of the two lanterns. They're supposed to be standing next to each other. Painted on (because I couldn't decide/figure out if I should paint them or make reliefs of them) are two groups of people, on the opposite sides of each lantern, away from the two figures. The whole thing was a story in my head that I explained: There are two parties going on, one person from each party gets annoyed with it and leaves, meets the other person outside, and the two just kind of stand outside looking at the stars together. The lantern aspect comes from the idea that I wanted to be able to stick candles into them. Light would shine straight up out of the top, as well as out of the holes I poked in near the top to represent stars. The people are together alone rather than with everyone else, looking at the stars, which are also together alone (in the sky)--that part was Bethany's idea.
One girl got completely stuck on the party aspect and was like, "It looks like they were never at the party." Well, a) the point was that they've left their respective parties, and b) it'd be kinda weird for two people that don't know each other to randomly be wearing party hats, wouldn't it? -_- Bethany didn't agree with her on that, but I did catch flack for the forms of the people painted on, which I know look bad. The 3D figures have mass to them, while the painted figures are elongated and skinny. Painting with slip, with a brush, on a tapering vertical surface is not easy. And I couldn't tilt the forms over because I would have messed up the 3D figures. I might take the painted figures off and do them over again after designing templates for them, but that involves having to actually make a stencil, and I hate making stencils. So it's either make the stencils and be insanely annoyed, or repaint the figures freehand, and once either of those processes is done, I have to carve into the clay a bit to kind of make them stand out. I have to open up the holes at the top, too. They're not quite big enough, but I only used my pin tool to make them, so yeah, they wouldn't be big. I'm disappointed with how it went, but I'll just have to revise it on the weekend. This is not getting into how the hell to color the damn things. Regular glazing would cause an issue with the star holes, low-fire glazing would be all right if I don't then use a high-fire glaze for anything, and Bethany did bring up an airbrushing method, but I dunno. She said we'll have to test things out.
Another person said it looked like the 3D figures left to go play in the snow, and I don't even.
EMMA.
The girl is not serious about class at all. As usual, I came back from CS at 12:57 to find her in front of the mirror. That's not the problem. The problem is that she doesn't come straight to class even though she knows she's late. She goes to Muddy to get food, and she brings the food back to our room, and she eats, THEN she comes to class. She comes in, consistently, sometime between 1:30 and 2:00 every single class. And then she spends the entirety of class sketching and not paying attention to anything we're doing, to the point that Bethany had to tell her at least four times today to put the sketchbook down on the table and actually pay attention to what's going on. She also didn't do the assignment right, probably because she doesn't pay attention. I don't know if she's like this because she's planning on transferring to an art school and doesn't see the need to do things the right way, or if she's actually just the biggest ditz in the world. It wouldn't annoy me as much if we weren't roommates. If I didn't know her personally, I would just assume she comes in late all the time because of conflicts or something, but I see what she does firsthand and it drives me up the wall. I'm curious about how she'll fair in an art school. Pretty sure they don't play that shit. Hell, I'm curious what Bethany's going to give her at the end of the semester. She does nice work, but her habits are freaking terrible.
I'm in a bad mood today. -_- I overslept this morning and missed religion, the temperature was 50 this morning, but it was freezing when I left because there hasn't been any sun all day, the critique was fail, and my roommate's a dumbass. Positives? 88 on my math exam, there won't be any homework due since we haven't actually done anything all week, math project's submitted, and the lab and program for CS that were due tomorrow and Monday, respectively, have both been pushed back to Wednesday. This means time to focus on clay and hopefully get everything right. There's no class next week for clay, but next week starts the firing schedule, plus we HAVE been given our last project, and I need to start that this weekend, too.
