Progressing with the Project No.1 "Starting to experiment with clay"

 Now that I had enough 3D Works done, I could start working with clay. Looking back on my best 3D works i had to explore same ideas by using clay.

For this little experiments I looked at the structure of my branch 3D. I used earthenware clay and rolled little sausage like shapes,then waited till they dried to shape them like little branches.To join them I scored and slipped them together.

  

 Here I used porcelain. I looked at the rolled and dry leaf structure in this experiment. I used porcelain because it expresses the fragility very well. When leafs dried they are very fragile and it is visible. Also it was fired to a very high temperature so when it came out of the kiln it was not porous at all, which is obvious by looking at it.    

 Again using porcelain but this time it was fired at a lower temperature so it is still porous. The idea of this experiment is taken from both my leaf 3D structure and paper straw one.

 Here I used earthenware clay. I made tube like shapes by hand and joined them together by scoring and slipping. This work might not look like it but I made it functional. I just really wanted to make something functional. It is sort of a vase. For the structure I looked at the branch and paper straw 3D sculptures.