#clay recycle

[alunimoon]

I wanna eat it

[nutnoce]

Wall altars my husband and I made out of plaster and recycled cardboard!

[claypigeonpottery]

made a little video for a couple people who were curious about pugging

[eucanthos]

eucanthos

Romuald Hazoumè: Tallonée mask, 2015

Stanley Weston: Cassius Clay, 1962

Edward Weston: Pine, Lake Tenaya, Yosemite National Park, 1937

Herb Ritts: Duo VIII’ LA, 1990 [feet]

[newvegascowboy]

Picture this: you are trying to make a piece of ceramics that requires structural integrity. You only have recycled clay. You are not allowed to kill yourself. What do you do.

[decentmonster]

it's pretty hard to get a decent picture of it, but I finally finished the lamp. the eyes light up and are coated in glow in the dark paint, and the halo has lights installed around the edges. The glasses are vintage 1920s motorcycle glasses.

[stuffmakesthings]

the gnome house (process)

I had the idea to make a little room in a tree stump, and decided a Pringles tube would be the right size to make a good base. this also gave me an excuse to buy and eat Pringles

I traced the base of the can on paper, decided what furniture I wanted and worked out a scale

the inside wall is a piece of card painted with a vague wood effect  

the floor is lollipop sticks trimmed and painted, stuck to a piece of card and cut to size and glued in place

the shelf is based on scaled measurements of a shelf in my home, I did a mock-up with paper then made it from basswood or balsawood glued together. the table is wood and matchsticks, with a scrap of fabric

used the technique from making RoLife Sam’s Study for the books - little squares of wood with covers of paper which I decorated. The book on the table is a strip of paper concertina’d, again with a cover of paper. I liked making the little books, if they were going to be more visible I could print out proper book covers in future projects. the picture frames and clock are various paper/card/wood, and the flowers are paper and wire in a polymer clay cup 

the rug is felt, I think it’s a bit too textured, so I would maybe try something different another time

the toadstools, gnomes and bugs are polymer clay. I think the ladybird and snail came out pretty cute

for the tree roots and bark I made papier mache using PVA glue, decoupage medium, paint, water and loo roll. turned out better than I expected

the moss is torn up bits of sponge, again mixed with paint and glue. I was meaning to buy fake foliage/flocking but didn’t get round to it, but I like how this looks

Overall I’m happy with how the house turned out. I wanted to try an electric light and I could have added more little details, but decided to limit how much time I spent on it

The main thing I’m not pleased with is mostly just lack of planning on the gnomes. I only eyeballed in the armature length, and then did that thing like with pasta where it looks the right amount but you forget how much it expands. I only had a fairly thick armature wire, and as they’re a kind of chubby chibi-ish build they ended up a lot bigger than the wire. I then also didn’t make an effort with where the joints would be on the armature, so their little legs don’t sit very well and the arms may not be the same length. but yeah they’re just way too big. In future I’d find a similar sized figure to reference and/or make a paper cut-out to follow

[eredhes]

👇 get in the tub

[k00242882]

Today I continued with my sculptural piece.

I wanted to add some raw clay because I had seen artist Amy Mackles work, where she builds with raw clay.

Everything used here is leftovers.

I've added a mini toy because, I've had lovely inspiration from playing with children .

I did some textures on my new clay leaves and flowers, to tie in with what I was doing in ceramics elective.

Above is a snap of the bottom of the piece.

Making the stand with Newplast.

The red dish is an old one that I Had at home, that I had made last year.

Point of note.

I made this piece because I had leftovers.

Then I felt I had to come up with narrative for it.

Speaking with some of my tutors , it was suggested that I don't need to explain, interpret or do any of that.

In my first piece, there was intentionality and that' was my starting point. That's all I needed, to have intention, with a view to develop learning through process.

This piece could not have been made first ( because it's leftovers)

I'm doing that here ( making through process) and I can let this piece speak for itself.

In saying all of the above, another tutor could see the piece as A Tree of Life, which I really like.

[iamthepulta]

The economic journalist I spoke to was fascinating in the same way: they have this fantasy where the laws of entropy don't exist, and the public believes we get materials from a Philospher's Stone because the process has been so well-obscured.

No, recycling can make a dent, but 1. it's barely economic 2. there have to actually be things to recycle, so you have a time-gap from a new product to that product's degradation. Longevity for things like laptops can help, but in reality it's things like houses, electrical wiring, communication servers, machinery, which generally operate on a human lifespan. So recycling has a 10-75 year delay.

[educationinfo44]

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[alunimoon]

Clay Recycle Day ♻️

[chaiu]

a tiny sized bookcase i made for my regular sized bookshelf! it’s the only craft i did during the winter break but that’s ok… i’m glad i was still able to make something at all

[prosebushpatch]

Just watched a youtube video of a master potter making a teapot on a wheel and the whole time I’m in awe of the precision and how he makes the lid separately and it fits perfectly without measuring or anything, and at the end im like “oh wow that is incredible” and then I watch as he takes the wire string AND CUTS A CROSS SECTION TO SHOW US THE THICKNESS OF THE CLAY and i slapped my hand over my mouth. sure it took him 15 minutes to make that but hnnnng he just cut it in half. my heart stopped.

[k00279452]

Recycling Clay

i decided to destroy my body form used to make a mold for my agar agar experiment. It was unfired so could be recycled , in light of Adrian Villar Rojas , i destroyed it , expressing its temporary use .

[intertexts-moving]

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