Hand Drawing 

I enjoyed making this drawing even thought at some points I just wanted to give up. The hardest part was the middle finger and this is where my problems started. Every time I started it I felt like it was too dark. I ended up doing my pointer finger and thumb first and then moving down to my other fingers. I enjoyed at the end adding the final details to the thumb and finally being able to glue it and put it on the wall. 

Clay Jar:

I really enjoyed making this piece. When it was first introduced to us I knew I wanted to do something Christmas but it wasn't until we were shown examples from past year and I saw a gingerbread house and I knew that's what I wanted to do.  When I started it took many trys to get the perfect house shape which was surprising because most people would think it would be easy.  I remember when I told Langmaack that I wanted to make a gingerbread house he told me it was going to be difficult but that only made me want to make it even better and add even more detail.  I would like to give credit to Leah Gann who helped make the balls on the side of the roof while I added details to the house and Langmaack who cut the top of my jar because I didn't want to mess it up after all the work I had put in. I had a blast making this piece and would love to make another jar.  

Clay bowl:

I enjoyed this project but it was definitely a trial and error. At first I had a completely different design, I was going to do the sun and the moon but about half way through with making the design on the bowl and putting coils on I changed my mind about the design.  I didn't end up using the whole bowl mold for my ending bowl like my old design instead I did about half way and added my ending coil. My biggest fear was that because of all the open space in my bowl that it could crack but there was no cracking and my bowl is completely sturdy and secure.  And it makes a perfect Christmas gift, I'm thinking a bowl for fruit. 

Clay Whistle:

I made a rat, dog, rabbit hybrid. It originally was supposed to be a rabbit but then it looked more like a rat dog so now its all three.  I had a rough start to this project and had to restart the whistle part 5 times. Reese ended up having to make the holes for the whistle. The rat, dog,hybrid had both ears and nails originally but someone snapped them off so it just became a special whistle.  I'm not going to lie this was't my favoite project but it was still fun to learn how to do it and make the animal itself. 

Butterfly oil pastel drawing 

I really liked how this piece turned out! It had a slow start to it though because at first it was a dragonfly and I wasn't sold on it so I had to start over and changed my insect into this butterfly. I found that for this piece it was easiest to start with the insect itself and them move onto the flower and leaves, and end with the backround. I would like to give credit to langmackk who helped me by showing me how to do the flower petals and start the background.  And Leah Gann who helped me with blending colors for the leaves.  I am very proud and love how it turned out.