Week 4

I did the first casting of my 2liter bottle mold and I am super excited about it. It worked!! It is so smooth and perfect, and it should be after working on making the mold for five days. I got too impatient on taking it out though and it ripped apart at the seams, But that's ok because it is so awesome.
I also have been working on my mugs this week and they are coming out pretty well. I have always hated putting handles on perfectly good cups but these are looking alright. I tried a bunch of different shapes and quite a few different handles, some more conventional than others.


My project for the critique this week was of my styrofoam cups. I am going to be glazing the cups in "pretty" glazes. Trying to make something that is considered cheap and very disposable into fine porcelain cups fitted with traditional blue glazes, gold and silver luster, and possibly some crystals.
I am going to be using these different pieces of trash for different projects, and then in the end they will be put together. Sort of a means to an end. Much like trash is. The bottles, boxes, ect. that we throw away all the time are just a means to what is inside of them and once that is gone they mean nothing. and they are sent to the landfill