Irregular Joined Forms

 
 For our last thrown project, we are to construct "irregular joined Forms" as I call them.  Basically, we are to create froms using only the wheel.  Just like any other time when we are on the wheel, we start with a ball of clay, get it aligned to the wheel and then find the center.  After creating many shapes such as doughnuts, we are to then take these forms and join them to one another.  Last class, Brian showed us how to make these doughnuts.  We can use the whole doughnut or we can cut it in half and use two pieces instead.  He is wanting us to take everything we have learned this entire semester and utilize it for this project.  He doesn't mind what we come up with as an end product as long as it is completed on the wheel.  The wheel is going to be the "main" tool for this project.  In the 1st ceramics class, we worked with only hand-built projects. If we wanted we had the option of throwing on the wheel, but none of our projects required it.  This 2nd ceramics class requires both hand-built and hand-thrown projects.  We are now on our last project for both.

     I am not really sure as to what my hand-thrown irregular joined vessels will look like.  I am just going to play it by ear.  I plan on creating somethings that look real weird, others not so much.  I like to jump around a lot.  One thing about my artwork is that it is different everytime.  I go from doing weird stuff to more everyday things such as elephant feet, tribal heads and bowls, etc...