I chose Blue Celadon and midnight black for my glaze.

I chose those glazes because as my bust was coming together, it started to look more like Bob from the movie Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. So I used the Blue Celadon for the skin glaze and used a midnight black glaze for the hair. The only thing I would change would be facial expression the bust makes.

The artwork does express the narrative intended I was going for. Which is having my bust give this thinking expression with a blank stare.

What glazes did you use and why did you choose them?

I used a black tenmoku glaze in order to highlight the edges of details in this piece and get an earthy warm tone.

Please describe your result and what you would change if you were to redo the sculpture.

I'm very happy with the result theres an interesting texture in the blotchy brown patches and i like that it makes you want to look at it closer to make out details.

Does the artwork express the narrative that you intended? What is that narrative?

The artwork absolutely expresses the narrative I intended. The figure is reaching back to dig into the clay at the base of their head and conveys a feeling of pain.

I decided to use the Metallic Black Glaze, I was going to also apply the honey yellow for the bat logo, but instead I thought it would look better just all meshed out in full glaze.

My results were pretty spot on for my concept, I did like the way my form of the bust came out, although his logo did fall off, which I will reapply with epoxy glue once its finished firing. If I could redo the assignment, I would definitely take more time on detailing the facial features such as the eyes, and the mouth part, but overall, I think it will come out nice, it should look like a real-life statue, maybe something even ancient.

Yes, I still think regardless of my little fix ups on the piece the narrative came out nice. The narrative was “The Dark Knight” which was solely based off the Christopher Nolan films, there is a statue in the end of the final one that I was inspired by! I even put an image of that below to show!

What glazes did you use and why did you choose them?

I used the porcelain slip, red under glaze, transparent glaze, and moonlight glaze. At first I started with wanting to create star patterns around the face and leaving the base color white. But I really wanted to try the moonlight glaze and see if it would give me the starry night effect on dark clay.

Please describe your result and what you would change if you were to redo the sculpture.

If I could change something, it would probably be to not add the flower and star press molds and continue with the red star patterns. Although I wish the red came out more vibrant.

Does the artwork express the narrative that you intended? What is that narrative?

I think it did, but I didn't really have a main focus during the process, but I did choose the shape of the star to be explosive, sharp, eye catching (if the red didn't look so grey) to match with the facial expression. Also trying to give this guy a personality or quirk to his looks. The narrative being to show personality or specific feelings into shapes. That is how I viewed it when I started.

I chose MO2 as the glaze of choice as I believed it would give my narrative head a marble look to it. I painted the glasses with copper oxide to give off a light pink hue to differentiate the materials.

The result was far from what I expected and was rather disappointed in the look. The reason for this is that the glaze was not anything like the testers would have had me to believe. For reference, the glasses ended up being black. regardless I still find the result alright just not as I imagined.

While my narrative has changed a bit given the glaze result, I wanted to capture the ego of a mad scientist and I believe the bust does an excellent job in showing that desire.

What glazes did you use and why did you choose them?

Hair and Eyebrows - New Tenmoku , dark brown

Skin - Malcom Davis Shino

Eyes- UG 30 White & UG 15 Dark green

Lips- UG 27 Bright pink & UG 32 Mango red

Please describe your result and what you would change if you were to redo the sculpture.

my favorite part about her is indeed her hair and her baby hairs. The one thing i don't like about her is her patchy skin. The choice of painting it on was my mistake. I thought i put even amount of layers but i clearly didn’t.

Does the artwork express the narrative that you intended? What is that narrative?

Yes my narrative of a African American woman was expressed. I wanted her to look like she could be related to me and its funny she actually looks like my real sister a bit .

What glazes did you use and why did you choose them?

I used Titanium Yellow, Copper Red, Mediterranean Blue, and Iron Oxide. I used them because I had a fairly successful combination with them during the summer class (as seen in the second picture, except that I used Shanner Red instead of Copper Red during summer)

Please describe your result and what you would change if you were to redo the sculpture.

Ha ha ha ha.... I would change everything if I could redo it. I was hoping to get something like the second picture, and because it's a swimming narrative, that with a splash of blue like water. I think several things went wrong- one, different clay bodies. For some reason, I thought I was using t2 during the summer, but I think it was probably bravo buff. I also naively assumed that copper red would act the same way as shanner red (because they're both red, right?). So for the summer bust, I wiped away the shanner red and it still came out strong. However, the copper red seemed to completely die from doing that. I also didn't apply enough Mediterranean blue the first time, so I re-glazed and fired again, but I didn't realize that it further bakes the clay, so everything turned out even more muted. If I could redo the glaze, I would do something like Lisa did on her female figure (third picture). She used stony white and then threw underglaze on top of it. The colors/vibe are really nice on it. I've also learned to add more depth/definition features on the bust so that they show under the glaze. However, the glazes I used where way too thin, so everything is a little too strong/sharp. I think Lisa's glazing would have also been the perfect amount of coverage in terms of feature definition.

Does the artwork express the narrative that you intended? What is that narrative?

Not at all. I think the vibe gives more like a firefighter coloring than a swimmer. Or like some type of darker theme. Maybe like an undertaker or something... The narrative I was going for was a swimmer who ranked high or beat a PR or something. Like in the olympics, whenever they finish their races, they always look up and react. I wanted to capture that moment right after.