Binary City...?

Holy crap, I think I saw a 2!



Here's a intermediate ceramics project, although you may not be able to tell by looking at it. The numbers in the computer are made of clay. The computer is not.

Unfortunately, I didn't get my own photos of this project, and had to pull this small one off of the ceramic department's blog. And I can't retake any pictures, as I've reused the computer to make that short lived abomination. You can't tell from this photo, but the numbers are sitting on a circuit board, with the numbers and smaller gadgets to look like buildings and skyscrapers and the green of the board to be roads. So it's a digital city, or something.

Just use your imagination.

Bustin' Out

Oh look. It's a rock or somethi--HOLY CRAP!




Here's another Intermediate Ceramics project. Not much to it. If ya couldn't tell, I aint much of a clay person. Although it's mostly a big mound, it had to be hollow, so I had to do the time honored tradition of getting a huge mound of newspaper and building the clay around that, so that the newspaper would burn in the kiln. But before it when off to cook, I put in that dude trying to break out of said mound. Don't know why. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Tree Full of Lead

This is how pencils are actually made.




Here's one of my projects from my Intermediate Ceramics class. I can't remember if we had a specific criteria for this one, nor do I remember if I had any particular meaning to this, other than to say that pencils come from trees. The wooden ones, anyway.

This wasn't one of my greatest works, as the roots kept braking, and I didn't coat the bottom, having been told that it would make it stick to the kiln. Later, I was told that just means I shouldn't paint the bottom surface and that painting up to the edge would have been perfectly alright. But my teacher, Lauren, was pretty easygoing about it, and just pretty in general. She was quite a good teacher, for a grad student.

The University of Delaware ceramics department blog can be found here. It's run by Lauren, Abbey Donavan (another awesome teacher I had for Beginning Ceramics), and several other teachers and students. Heck, even former students, as I'm still officially an author of the site and no one has tried to kick me out yet. It shows whatever the teachers may find interesting as well as many of the students' work.