Art Sculpture

Hello, I am Simran. I'm in 11th grade and am a big animal advocator. I enjoy going outdoors and going on walks with my family. Some goals I have going/things I'm looking forward too this year is getting amazing grades, getting another dog, work on my community service project (Training for teachers; an organization where I offer training dogs on zoom for $5 & all proceeds go to teachers in Africa to buy supplies for students), and start tutoring people. I like to learn visually the best, and I like to work quietly. I sometimes like group work, but it depends on the assignment/subject. My favorite book is Wonder, my favorite food is pizza, and my favorite place is the Bahamas. I enjoy analyzing and reading poetry. I think poetry is way to calm the body down, relax, and think. Also, I love dogs, drawing, and just volunteering at my local SPCA or animal shelters. I find helping people and connecting with others extremely satisfying. Also, I play competitive tennis at Duke! A food I can eat forever are tacos because they are so delicious and you can eat them in many ways! You can add anything you want and make them unique to your tastings. Overall, I like to live life to the fullest and never have any regrets.

Comparing Ceramic Rattle Artists

Bridget Fox's rattles are very advance, looking highly realistic and full of texture. She uses lots of patterns and textures on her sculptures to give it a realistic look. Carol Lebreton's rattles are realistic using less color, but texture that gives the sculptures a very in-depth look. Also, the textures used makes the sculpture appear wooden like. Fox's story is she grew up Knoxville showing passion for the arts and science, wanting to combine her loves together, she creates highly realistic art pieces of nature. The imaginative series her work is inspired by is textures, patterns and unusual organisms of the natural world. In an article by the Mountain Press, they say "using hand building and wheel throwing, she creates a rare undersea garden of earthly treasures, cerebral concoctions and cosmic delights." The story behind Lebreton is when she was 11, she started to love working with clay. Not the usual clay, but the soft yielding clay on the side of a freshly cut dirt road, this is where she encountered a consuming passion that was enriched by her childhood. Her work is inspired by creating humor work in art and her creative passion for art from childhood. Both artists are similar as they use various textures to give a highly realistic look to the pieces of art work. They are difference as Bridget incorporates more color in her pieces than Carol, who uses more grey and natural off-scheme of the clay to make her pieces more personnel, and realistic. In Fox's art work, the way she brings science and nature to art in a way its highly realistic and beautiful amazes me, the composition and textures she adds makes the pieces very divine. Lebreton's art uses less color, but the way she uses it naturally to a realistic, old/rustic styled art makes it look organic and composed. Something I can use in my design from Fox and Lebreton is the way they incorporate textures that adds more beauty to the piece then using colors that distract the true sculpting away to the eyes-view.

This is my 4 Rattle Design Sketches!

This is before my piece goes into the kilm to be fired.

Pinch Pot Project Progress

For my pinch rattle project, I decided to make a crumbled up, chilly pepper!
Below are progress photos to my final (:

Greenware:

I loved creating this chile pepper piece! I found the look of the clay successful to an actual pepper's shape. I liked how perfect and realistic I got my clay medium to my sketch/idea of what I wanted this project to look like. If I would do this piece again, I would change it's thickness, making it more thin and dried looking. Also, I would make my pepper more tiny to look like the tiny red chile peppers my grandma grows in her garden.

These are photos of my pepper after it was fired in the kiln.

Glazed Final Piece:

I am incredibly satisfied with the way my pepper turned out after being glazed. It looks amazing and very elegant. I find success in my pepper's pigmentation and shineness composure to how a real chile pepper looks. Also, I find the stem's crumpled texture highly successful as well as it resembles a dried chili pepper in nature. If I were to do the glazing again, I would've colored and brought the stem's part more around and realistic on the top instead of it awkwardly going into the red glaze.

Describe:

I would describe this piece as a realistic pepper you would find growing in a garden or used for tonight's dinner to someone. It's texture and shape resembles a realistic pepper with its bumps and upwards pointed tip at the end of the piece. The bright red color of the pepper add's to its beautiful composure corresponding to its dark green stem that curves side-ways when grown in nature. My piece's repetition in texture imprints makes' it look crumbled and dried. This helps the piece come together, especially the red glaze's contrast to the stem's texture makes it look like an actual pepper. My piece's arrangement and unity of the stem and body, plus the glaze's deep colors helps the elements of art come together, creating a balance in my piece to the eye. This piece gives me the feeling I intended for which was to back to my 7 year-old self in my grandma's garden, picking peppers in Rochester NY on a Sunday in July when the weather was perfect, not too chilly or too warm. This piece is organic and says it's bold and vibrant, but has layers in its thick stem. I judge that my work has lot's of value as I created it for a sentimental reason, to exemplify past memories as a warm hot chocolate or perfectly salted fries with a hint of sogginess does to me, taking me back to the skiing log in Toggenburg NY. Overall, I feel my piece is successful as it looks realistic and it's exactly how I wanted it to look while sketching out ideas for this project.

I misplaced my symmetrical Kandinsky Composition sketch, but didn't end up using it.

Kandinsky Composition Slab Sketches

I choose my asymmetrical sketch to create then my symmetrical sketch as I didn't like it's composure.

These are my in progress and greenware photos!

Describe:

I love my slab and how abstract it turned out! If I had to describe this piece to someone, I would talk about it's contrasting colors and designs on both sides, clearly showing its asymmetrical ness. I would talk about it's deepness in the in-graving swirl sides to the shiny, but vibrant teal side with hints of magenta. Also, it's texture and shape is highly contrast, with a balloon separating both sides adding to its overall composure. I like how the random shapes on the left side contrast with the dark purple, showing a light to dark senario making the piece come together. Furthermore, each side's differences are leveled within the middle with neutral tones contrasting both sides. My piece's arrangement and differences create a unity in the middle within the ballon, creating balance to the viewers eye. This piece gives me the feeling I intended for when sketching out different designs which is strengthen and finding beautiful in the most abstract places. My piece say's how unique something can be, while showing beautiful outside and within by it's shape or personality, etc. I judge my work's worth is the beauty of its contrasting colors, shapes, and designs that correlate to the overall composure. I feel my piece is successful as it's exactly how I visioned it to be, iconic and eye-taking, while not being overwhelming with each side's differences.

Oreo Relief Art

The city oreo represents my trip to NYC over the summer.

The heart oreo represents banksy's famous red heart balloon flying away.

The one beside it represents the ROBLOX logo as I am a developer and game-creator on that platform.

Lastly, the oreo in the right top corner is a mini version of my big tile above.

Dwelling Project

Below are photos of my final piece!

1) The piece I made is a gingerbread house out of cardboard as my medium. The process was a difficult experience for me as I find working with cardboard frustrating, but it was an opportunity to work with mediums I find myself avoiding to pick to create art in. I started with creating a sketch base outline and measured its house-like structure with a ruler. After narrowing down its sizing and cutting it out, I hot-glued my pieces together and slowly added decoration to give my piece realism and look organic. I set up my design by referring to my sketch and looking at real, online examples of gingerbread houses to see how I could create this in card-board.

2) I find my roofing and measurement of my piece highly successful as its very symmetrical and not crooked. I would have changed the amount of hot-glue I used on the sides as the hot-glue adds an interesting look to the sides of my ginger-bread house walls. If I were to do this piece again, I would change the way I made the windows as I messed up cutting it and had to innovate shutters on my house to distract the viewer from my mistake.

3) I feel my art shows the mood of festivity and family as a ginger-bread to me represents all the memories I have with my cousins and I making ginger-bread houses on Christmas-eve. We would add tons of decor, sugar, designs, and make it look crazy for each-other to view. I love how my piece takes me back to hanging with family and having created great memories: full of feelings of fun and laughter just from looking at a ginger-bread house.

4) I like my piece, but I don't love the medium and wish I used another type of medium to fully capture details that cardboard couldn't. I am proud of my piece, but I wish it could've been more detailed with using clay or more flexible cardboard to make my piece look more realistic. I am proud how symmetrical my piece is, and how perfect its measurements are to a real ginger-bread house. I am proud of the work and dedication I put towards this piece and like the way my mindset executed creating a card-board ginger-bread house for my living room table.

Diwali Art I made!

This one represents a peacock with lights to represent the festival of lights.

Diwali Art!

I made a flower full of colors to give it composure and added candles at night to make it look alive and benevolent.

Sgraffito

Below is my Sgraffito project sketch ideas. I ended up narrowing my piece to 3 mugs stacked upon each other; having Van Gough's iconic Starry Night engraved along the piece as a canvas.

These are my in progress and greenware photos!

Final Product!

Here is my final sgraffito project. Here, I took inspiration from Van Gough and created the stormy night, but did sgraffito on the suns and the winds displayed in yellow, and light blue. This project took me over two weeks as I had to be very detailed with the tree placement and not having the glazes mix with each other. Some pros of this project was the freedom and how we got to take inspiration from an artist. I liked being able to create what I wanted, a mug, and have a versatile product for my bedroom. Also, I liked the color scheme and graphics of my piece as well. Some cons of my piece was not being able to finish the other 2 cups. They are still in progress, and also I found doing starry night on all of them to not look great. It looked very weird and not how I wished my project would come out. Regardless, I decided to paint the other two cups inspired by Peter Max and Thomas Kinkaide. When I finish this in Sclpture 2 honors, I will post them on my site. Overall, I had lots of fun and got to bring out my inner-painter artist in this project. I liked doing sgraffito as it brings out interesting, but compelling textures and style in my pieces. Also, I liked the composure it gives to pieces as well.

Altered Book or Food Project

Here is a drawing of what I originally planned to be my project of a smore cookie. I wanted to do a smore as I love them, they are my favorite desert and I think they are one of the cutest food creations to exist, tastfully and apealling wise as well.

I ended up doing the book project instead as I just watched Wednesday Adams from Netflix and got inspiration to create a altered book inspired from the show!

Process photos! (Sorry, I only got photos of the hand in progress).

Final!

My piece is inspired from a popular TV show, Wednesday Adams. I decided to make a book inspired from the TV show and my favorite scenes from Tim Button, the creator. On one side, I carved into the book to add depth and create a whole like structure, that represents the woods in Wednesday Adams. Secondly, on the other side, I created "Thing" with paper Mache to represent Wednesday's partner and a key-aspect that gave eerie feeling in the show. The black and paper theme in all adds to the composure of my piece. Some success I found was the depthness of my whole, making my piece look 3-D when you look within and that the whole never stops. Secondly, I like how realistic my hand looks compared to a Human Hand, and the shows', "Thing" hand. If I were to do this project again, I would've changed my ever-lasting whole position as I wanted it to go from right to left, not from the middle, but I still highly love it's look. I feel my piece shows the mood of eeriness to composing that its from darkness that the show, Wednesday Adams represents. I like how I kept the magazine/paper features in my hand to make it look like the hand comes from the book, adding to the eerie feeling. I feel highly happy about my piece's overall outcome. I am proud of the work I made, but I wish I would've made realitic paper trees and a paper rose. Maybe in the future I will add that to make my piece more realistic and give it more-depth.

Installation Project

This installation project was a group creation, but each table in the classroom worked on different parts. We all created ideas for what this project should be and my table came up with an idea of doing a solar-system in a collab space. It would have had lot's of composure and colors with the different galaxies and having the projector, project stars!

Final Installation Project.

Our classroom ended up doing a story-book themed creation. We had trees, mushrooms, and enchanted forest vibe with a projector and 3-D butterflies. My table was in-charge of creating the bushes. We worked on painting and cutting out these bushes from cardboard for days until it was perfect! I helped put butterlies alongside our stand and created some as well to fully captivate the experience for people at Apex!

Trying Throwing!

I got the amazing opportunity to try throwing for the first time. To describe throwing to someone who has never tried it, I would tell them first they must make the clay into a circle and have a clean base. Secondly, they should throw the clay, hard and fast, into the middle of the wheel. If it's not in the middle, try to move the clay into the middle. Next, I would tell them to spread there finger on the bottom to make it stay on the wheel. Now, I would have them cup around the clay and keeping their pinkies in, but not too much that the clay's circulation gets cut off. Now, they go to highest speed and put pressure, having them control the clay, not the clay controlling them, while they immerse there whole body pressure to try to get the clay to center. With throwing clay, I found centering to be highly tiring and challenging as someone who skips arm day at the gym. It uses lots of upper-body strength and it can get very frustrating if you aren't able to center within 2 minutes. Sometimes I could center really fast and other times, it took a couple of tries until I got my clay to be centerd. What I found successful with throwing was my creations and the cylinders I attempted to create. I was able to create very tall and thin cylinders as a beginner thrower which I found awesome and I was able to create a successful bowl. From trying to throw, I learned lots of amazing facts from this experience. Firstly, I learned how to use clay on the wheel and how difficult it is, compared to how easy its shown online or on social media. I find it highly satisfying once my final product is completed as I put so much hard work and upper-body strength into completing it. Lastly, I learned how to center and even if it takes me a couple of tries, I was happy I didn't give up and kept on going, despite on not being able to center in the beginning of trying to throw.

Raku Mini Art

Progress!

Here is my mini Raku art piece. I decided to create a chef hat inspired from a video game I play called ROBLOX. It's an accessory on their item catalog. Also, I really love to cook and wanted to have a charm on my desk.

Final Raku Mini Art!

The Raku technique is essentially when glazed ceramics are taken from the kiln while they are still glowing red hot and are then placed in a material that would be able to catch fire, such as sawdust or newspaper. This technique is used to starve the piece of oxygen, which creates a myriad of colors within the glaze. I think the shape of my piece was sucessful as I didn't know if my piece would look like a chef hat, but in the end I love it's outcome and the way Raku made its details/engravements pop out. I found deciding what color to choose and making my shape difficult as making mini things in clay was a struggle. I am not used to making things tiny as most of my pieces are my hand-sized, not my finger-sized.

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