The Great Doodle Assignment

     I thought that this assigment was fun to complete but hard to think of things to put on it. But once I started thinking of things the page filled up eventually. I don't think that it looks very good still though. Some things didn't turn out so bad on this piece because they looked better when it had ink on it, but some things are harder to go over with ink because they were swirls or scribbles. If I was to do this project again I would maybe do some different types of designs in like sections, like I did in part of the drawing. The most difficult part of completeing this piece was trying to think of thigs to draw and put on the page and going over the swirls with ink. I learned that its hard to think of different doodle styles and use other exisiting doodle styles at the same time.

Kiln Creature

    I liked making a kiln creature and I also found it relativley easy too. I made a little pig out out clay. I thought that the pig ended up looking decent, but kind of a weird shape. Other than that I would say the pig turned out pretty well. The ears gave me trouble at first because they dried before I finished molding them since they were so small. I also gave the pig feet but they kind of got smooshed when I put him standing up right so the feet didnt really turn out. If I was to do this project over again I would probably just glaze the pigs eyes on instead of making it eye sockets and not giving it any eyes, but the eyes looked really creepy when they were on it so he just ended up with eye sockets with no eyes. I wouldn't say the pig was difficult at all to complete, if anything it would be shaping it. I learned that if you procrastinate for three days, something will finally come to you and it won't turn out too bad, you just don't have very long to do it.

Clay Mug

     Working with clay was one of my favorite things that we did so far this year. It was messy and the mug didn't exaclty turn out perfect which was frustrating but it is apart of making things with clay. Overall I thought that the mug turned out good but the glaze was a little messy. The rings that we made the mug out of were still evident because I didn't smooth it out completely before it was put in the kiln. The mug was kind of small and thick but it wasn't too sloppily made. The handle wasn't straight either, if I could redo my projec that is one of the things that I would change. I also would also smooth the mug out more before it was put in the kiln. I would also glaze the whole mug blue and put some green design or something on it instead of the stripes that are on it, or just put more stripes on and make them smaller too. The most difficult part was making the bottom for me. I don't know why but I had trouble just in making the bottom of the mug. I learned that in order to make a mug without using a wheel you have to make rings first, I didn't know that before, I thought that you just started shaping the mug.

Color Wheel

          I liked painting this project although it was difficult in parts. Mixing the colors so that they would have an equal amount of both colors so the secondary or tertiary color wouldn't look more blue than green or more yellow than red etc. I thought overall the color wheel looks good from far away or in a picture like the one above, up close it doesn't look as good. Some areas had white spots where the two colors met and that could have been painted better. Other than that I thought that it was a good project. If I was to do this project again I would paint the outside part of the wheel better so it wouldn't look so sloppy, I would also add more white to the colors when making them lighter so the change in shades would be more drastic. The most dificult part of this piece was adding enough white to make the shades of color more evident. I learned that painting is a lot harder than it looks even though what we had to paint was relatively simple.