Xavier Miller

Face Planter

First I got the clay then I formed a ball then started to press the middle shaping it into a bowl-like shape. Then I formed coils then scored the coils then stacked each of them on top of each other. At this point, the clay was still leather hard and I could still form different shapes with it. I noticed that the clay was pretty much leather hard throughout the whole time, unlike the organic clay. Then I began to form the facial structure like the nose, eyes, and mouth. I then made each of the parts more defined and more detailed. I tried to base my work on the way I view an average person. I know that all the parts may not be proportional but I tried my best to make it accurate to my view. My work doesn’t express social or personal issues. It expresses my view on human life and perspective. I was trying to make the facial expression on my project as happy but then it changed to more of a confused look. I feel like this is real life because people act happy when they are really confused and not happy. My goals for this project were to depict a happy guy but it turned into a more of a confused face. I feel like the goal was sort of reached because it gave me a better understanding of the art that I didn’t even know. I learned that I could do something without even intending to do it, it was kinda crazy, to be honest. I learned that what you intend to do is not always what happens art can take you in a different direction than what you originally intended. My goals were kind of met in this project and I learned more about myself and more about how art can take me in different ways than I intended. I liked this project because I liked doing something new and I had pride in my work.

Arrow Sculpture

The shape of my project is an arrow tip and it has various patterns on both sides of the arrow tip. The color used in my project was just a black pen on a white base so black and white. My art piece is around 9 inches in length and about 5 ½ inches in width. In my art piece, there is a variety of lines and patterns used. The eyes of the viewer move around because of the variety of lines and patterns it almost that each pattern and line leads you to the next. The lines are used differently in that they have different patterns and have different variations so are skinny will others are thicker. My art didn’t really have texture or much color so the biggest factors were the shape and the lines. My artwork is all of my emotions in a piece, the zig-zag pattern exemplified my nervousness I have sometimes. While the vertical lines and diagonal symbolized my more excited and communicative side. The most important part of my artwork is all of it because it represents my emotions and feelings in lines. I like this piece because I haven’t really done art in a while and this was a fun and creative way to start it. I like how this piece represents me and my emotions and feelings. If I could change something about this piece I would probably change the shape into an X so it represents myself even more. But other than that I enjoyed this project.

Coral Reef Scuplture

At first glance, I see the barnacle type of artwork on the exterior of the vase, and the vase is smoothed on the outside and the inside of the vase. The only part not smoothed out is the lip of the vase. There were not many colors or lines patterns on this vase but technically the coils were lines. But shapes were the spotlight of the project, the vase was not exactly perfectly shaped but I tried my best to shape it. The barnacle patterns were the organic texture I used and I feel like it came out very well it really exemplified organic shapes. I see that the vase has barnacles on it and that the vase is smoothed. It makes me feel like in under the sea looking at barnacles on the coral reefs or on something on the sea. And the most important thing to me on the vase is the barnacles. What I disliked about the project is that I think I should’ve smoothed out the lip, but I’m not sure if I should have or not. What I like best about the piece is that the barnacles are made it feel like it’s apart of the base it just flows so well. I would have probably smoothed the lip if I would’ve changed anything.

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