Butterflies
plan:
- wedge clay
- use the extruder
- build my bowl by using coils
- smooth out the outside of the bowl
- make butterflies (slab roll, cut them out, shape how I want)
- add handles
- fire and glaze
Reflection:
- For my final, I was rushing like really badly because I started very late. For the time that I spent on it I was very happy with the way it turned out but I feel I could have smoothened it out more and added more butterflies. One thing that I also could have done better was making the bowl even because I felt like it looked lopsided. When it came out of the kiln I was disappointed because the bottom of the bowl broke off. I am not sure on how this could have happened but atleast its still usable. Overall my final was okay for the time i spent but I feel that it could have turned out better.
background/training:
- Edna Bels Beachboard was born on October 13, 1872 in Hudson, Michigan. When she was 19 she married John Henry Boies. In 1894 he passed away. After his death she then enrolled in the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1895 where she studied illustration, life drawing, woof carving and sculpture. After studying there till 1899, she moved to New York in April of the same year. She then went on to study commercial art, composition and watercolor until march of 1900 at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Edna ended up remarrying James Roy Hopkins on September 13, 1904. In 1920 Edna stopped making art because of her Arthritis. On March 24, 1937 she died At Harper hospital in Detroit, Michigan because of cancer.
