Throwing a Faceted Vase

Start with a centered piece of clay, create a well and then compress by pushing clay back in towards the centre.

Create a 'volcano'.

Pull the clay up into a cylinder.

Do a second pull creating even walls and giving it height.

Collar the neck of the vase.

Push the clay from the bottom to top into a vase shape.

Cut strips of the pot, giving it its faceting.

Use a wire to cut the strips.

The entire pot has been cut.

And lastly trim the bottom, slightly angular and touch up any rough spots.

The finished product, in three stages, unfired, fired with glaze and its final reduction firing.

Ceramics

Fired Vases and Bowl

Red and Blue Glazed Bowl

Dipping Bowl and Sugar Canister

'Red' Plate

Opal Bowl

Faceted Vases, three stages first unfired and just thrown, middle has been fired once and glazed, far blue is the final product

Once fired and glazed bowls, ready for the second firing

Sugar Bowls, fired and unfired

Small dipping bowls and chopstick rest, unfired

Salt Pigs, unfired

Salt Pig

Pen/Spoon holders, unfired

Butter/Cheese Bell, unfired

Roses, unfired

Large Canisters, unfired

Dipping Bowls

Variety of tea bowls made at Dunedin Art School

Paper Mache

Paper Mache Animal Mobile

FLOSS, Free Software Foundation

FLOSS (or FOSS) is set up to support free software downloads and also the option to re-write the code in a software program to the persons preferences and then to share this new improved version of the software on for free to others where they can do the same. The term coined for this is called "copyleft".

Here are some examples of FLOSS:

http://www.gimp.org/ - a popular freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring, powered by a great bunch of script and plug-ins.

http://www.skencil.org/ - a Free Software interactive vector drawing application. Known to run on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, it is a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes.

http://podofo.sourceforge.net/ - a library to parse and create PDF files, includes a PoDoFo browser useful to "debug" PDF files.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ - GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. It provides a robust collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats including important formats like DPX, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, SVG, and TIFF.

Art History and Theory: Artwork Analysis

Artwork Analysis Assignment - Art History and Theory

Computers and Art 1960 - 2012

Workbook week 8 : add two or more events to the timeline.

The Magical World of Misery. 

International digital artist to host workshop at Waikato University

Dipity - Computers and Art

Throwing Porcelain

This is a fantastic video of potter Roy Yuichiro at work, perfect shapes and beautiful lines created so fast and making it all look so easy in the process, yet we know that this is no easy feat!