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I created this piece as a tribute to my late grandfather. The lighthouse represents the guidance he brings me even now after he has passed. The duck represents me as the trust he gave me and the encouragement I always felt from him made me feel like I have wings. The subtle wood grain texture is also a nod to my grandfather as his passion was working with wood.

This piece was difficult to create as it was difficult to separate personal emotions from the clay. I realized that the cracks and mistakes of the clay represent real life better than any flat shape could. Every bubble I see or piece of clay shows how the love I have for my grandpa has become physical through this wall relief.

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I finished off all the details of my duck as well as adding the final draft of the tail. I did extra wood grain detail on the lighthouse and added more texture with slip to my rocks.I also made the beak and eye look more realistic with adding more clay.

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Added some slip and wet clay to give the rocks and clouds some texture and continued to refinewings of my duck.

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I played erasies with the details of my wing since they were not looking realistic. I went back and learned more about the ducks wing and redid the small feather details. This also was my first of three tries at the duck tail.

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I fleshed out more details of the inc and started experimenting with the shadow and texture of the cloud and the rocks. I also rounded out some edges of the lighthouse to give it more depth.

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Began to add more detail to the duck’s wings as well as the body of the duck. I also did some lighthouse details.

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Cut out my hand .

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I created a cheese block, a starfish, and a koi type fish. 

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The people changed my art by adding extra things. They added a sand dollar, a mouse in a cave, and SpongeBob. They pretty much kept with my theme of ocean and the mouse makes sense with the cheese.

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I pinched to make the stars and the moon. I rolled to make the braided crown. I flattened to make the smiley face.

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Make Something by “Pinching, Rolling, Flattening”

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Make Something by “Pinching, Rolling, Flattening”

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I combined my stats into a coral like structure that looked like starfish in the wild. I used slip and some flat pieces to combine the shapes.

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I have a cat, I am 16, My favorite season is fall

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I began carving the wing feather details into the 3rd and ultimately final draft of the wing. At this stage I also slip and scored by duck’s body to the slab background and smoothed out the slip edges.

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Attached the duck body and deciding about wing placement.

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Attached the duck to the background with slip and score.

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Rough outline of my background lighthouse and clouds with a low relievefstyle.

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I carved out the light house, rocks and clouds using a low relief style and added a texture in the background. Details would be added later.

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Tried to attach second draft wing, I had not attached it permanently though as soon it would break again.

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The first wing broke so this was a new draft.

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1st draft wing broke.

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1st day wing (this is the first draft.)

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I had added the wing at this point and it was a solid duck form. I quickly removed the wing though.

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I finished the background of my walk relief and filled in all the cracks with slip.

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I had my flat background slab and 2 walls slipped and scored

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I rolled out a slab and formed the first arch structure. I slipped and scored the pieces to the have and I used the dowels to hold up the arches while they dried.

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I added another arch with the slip and score method again.

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I added a question mark shaped arch as well as a chain of square which I slotted together to ensure a better join. At this stage I also dug the bottom into the base to ensure it would be stronger.

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Arches show negative space.

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Rounded out the fingers and chose the top and bottom of the hand.

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Cut out my hand outline.

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I began to round out the fingers and cut off the corners to make it a more realistic argument.

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I blocked off the nails and continued to round out the fingers and palm area

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Continuing to round out the hand and continuing to give it more of a realistic shape.

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My thumb fell off but I slip and scored it back on.

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I pulled forward the thumb joint and pressed in the fingernails.

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Thumb nail.

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This is the major creases of the fingers

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I cut the hand in half

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Hollowed out the hand and added the bridges eventually to keep the shape.

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Slip and scored the hand pieces back together.

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Did some volume adjustments and referenced my own hand. It looked pretty good!

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Added more volume to the fleshy parts of my hand.

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Cutting tension slits in order to bend the fingers

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First finger bent!

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Finger bending finished. I also interrupted the creases to make them look more realistic.

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Knuckles and finger bending is finished. Cleaning up details.

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More crease work

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Bone dry hand which I cleaned up the creases with the small dental tools.

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Basically finished hand with more detail work

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Final product photo!!

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I made a wavy bowl with the slumping method.

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I made vines off the bowl but I realized they would dry out too quickly so I changed the method and decided to build the kelp on the bowl itself

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I made a base bowl stand using a drape method over the Bundt cake tin to give it the ridges and texture similar to a clam shape.

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I continued to shape the bowl by forming it inside the larger bowl 

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I made the leaves of my kelp

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I attached some leaves to the sides of the bowl.

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I added the kelp “vine” and the beads to represent the connection points of the kelp.

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Final Phot