Emilia Filipkowska's Coil Vase

EMILIA FILPKOWSAK

Coil Vase

1. This piece of artwork is a functional vase that is planned to be used as a flower pot or vase. The vase starts off by going out from the bottom for a long whole which gives the vase a bigger middle area. Then after it hits the middle of the vase, the clay starts going in until it hits the top of the vase, where it goes out for about an inch and then it ends. The glazing method that I used was that I layered three glazes together, which gave the vase a flowy glaze look, which i think is very abstract and looks very good on the vase. Also the colors that formed on the vase are greens, blues, and tans. The colors go very well together. Overall the vase is pretty large (about 10 inches), but it is very uniform and catches the viewers eye all throughout.

2. The materials that were used to create the piece of artwork were a wooden rib, long tools with hooked bottoms, a long tool with a triangular bottom, a sponge, and a paintbrush. The wooden rib was used to smooth the vase by taking off excess clay that was coming of the vase and not belonging there. Also the long and triangular tool was used to smooth out and take off excess clay in hard to reach places by gently rubbing the clay just like the wooden rib did. Then the paintbrush and the sponge was used to smooth the vase overall and take away an unwanted lines or textures by rubbing the vase very gently. The long tool with a hooked bottom was used to smooth coils together that were used to create the vase. The techniques that were used to create this piece of artwork were coiling, smoothing, forming a slab with bare hands, and shaping the clay how you wanted it to go. We started off by forming a big slab base which was then used to construct the vase. coiled were formed after by coiling out balls of clay and then places in a circular motion onto the base of the base and kept on goings up. all the coils had to be smoothed by using the special hooked tool of just by pressing the clay together using your hands. Also if you wanted the vase to go inwards, you would have to place the coils towards the inside of the vase, and vise versa if you wanted it to go outwards, you would place the coils on the outer part of the vase. Everything was then refined and smoothed and the final vase was formed.

3. I really do like my vase a lot because I think it looks very proportional and uniform, yet it has a little bit of abstract and creativity to it as well. I also like how I achieved in making it, the exact size that I wanted it to be initially and the colors are pretty medium in their value and I really like how the glazes blended together and the colors that it formed. The artwork is a pretty balanced composition as it catches the viewers eye all throughout because of the glazes running in different ways all throughout the whole piece of artwork. You look for how far, how big, or how thin the glazes are running and where they are running, this makes it a very balanced composition. Also I think it does represent pretty good craftsmanship as it is refined very well, the vase is pretty proportional, and the gazes are painted on in a uniform and neat way. Making the whole piece of artwork as a good representation of craftsmanship.