Audri Guldner 

(Scraping  Hand) 

(Clay, 2024)

The idea was to make a flat face first. I would then make the hand, place it halfway over, and make it as realistic as possible. I scrapped lines going up looking like the hand is pulling on the face. I used tools that would pull the clay and indent it. I smoothed it out as much as possible. Adding extra detail to the hand like fingernails and veins. The glaze I used was gold and silver put together to seem like a sculpture type of color. I got this idea from mental health to relate to others.  When looking at this I can see it being draining.  Someone in your life that represents the hand pulling away your personality. Feeling like you can't take a breath and you can't get away. Being surrounded by people who have mental health problems makes me see how they feel without me feeling it myself. The hardest part of this piece was the hand, making it look as realistic as possible. I ended up looking at my hand so I could get a reference. I love how this idea came out.

Audri Guldner 

(Slump drape)

(2024)

We had to make a "Slump drape" which is when you have a round piece of styrofoam and kinda drop it on the table for the clay to fall down in the middle like a bowl.  The blue bowl has a pattern on it used with a stamp. The bowl is a medium-sized bowl. Not knowing what color to use I closed my eyes and found a little blue. The black bowl is a small size and was made the same way with a stamp. Using a glaze I saw had glitter in it I used. The most difficult part was when you had to smooth the sides but didn't wanna smooth out the patterns. It still was smoothed out and came out not bad and the pattern is still there. 

Audri Guldner

(All around)

(2024)

The idea was to make a flower base, but it wasn't getting even. At the top, I wanted to make a star, so I shaped it that way and thought of adding starfish. I added two stars and then worked from that and just kept thinking of what to add. I ended up making animals that were in the ocean, but I added a lizard and made that part with leaves. So it's just a mix of everything, and I wanted it to be detailed, so I added coils. The most difficult was probably glazing. With some things that broke off, it was hard to glaze it back on. Also, I am trying to not get on the other things. Picking out the right color was also difficult even when it didn't turn out how I wanted. I would like to change the lizard part and just make everything lighting on the blues. I love how the bubbles turned out tho and how it didn't bleed color.