Favorite Ceramic Artist

 Favorite Ceramic 

My favorite ceramic artist is Karen Karnes. I searched up ceramic artist and I liked her art the most. I like how she makes the pots, flower containers and jars. I like how the pots look like because that makes me think how my mom and family in Mexico cooked on those kind of pots. Karen Karnes was an American ceramist, best known for her earth toned stoneware ceramics. She was born in 1925 in New York City, where she attended art schools for children and she died 2016. “In 1967, Karnes first experimented with salt-firing at a workshop at the Penland School of Crafts.” Karen decided to live the rest of her life on a farm, working with clay and using old firing practices such as wood and salt firing and her house was already burned on the ground because of the kiln fire. http://www.lacostegallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=75

Big Slab Method

Big slab method. The method was to roll out the slabs by hand using a rolling pin and waited for all peaces to dry to put them all together. . This is a flower container, it didn't came up of how i wanted it. This was going to be a tall box with 3d  sea shells painted. this project hasn't been finished its not fired yet i couldn't glaze it.

Small Slab method

Small slab method. The slab is rolled and then it dry to leather hard stage before being joined with other parts to create the form of the slab. 

Coal Method

This is a coal method. I worked on this for several days and it came out as a flower container.

Hollow Method

This is a Hollow method project. This project was made with newspaper inside of it. It needed to be soft and all parts correctly put on the circle for it to have a shape.