Hello to everyone out there reading my blog.
My name is Sophie i am a student in my first year at the Dunedin Art School in Otago, New Zealand. I have always been interested in crafts and making things and i have a huge range of hobbies from sewing to paper mache and everything in between. My biggest love is Ceramics and Potting, i studied as an apprentice potter with my family in Whangamata for a few months before being accepted into the Art School, which is where i hope i can train with some awesome other potters. I make mainly homeware pots, such as plates, bowls, all things fuctional. But i also love moulding things by hand such a flowers and animals, which can be added to my wheel thrown pots or used for decoration on their own.
I currently have several projects in the works, both school work and personal hobbies.
One is photography, which this is my first attempt at, we are doing it the 'old fashioned' way before digital came about. We have gone through the difficult but exciting process of taking photos on a roll of film, taking them into a dark room, developing them and then the final step of making a proof sheet or contact sheet.
Another project i have on the go which is not school work is a paper mache painting, it is only in its very first stages, but it will combine 3D animals made out of paper mache on a painted and paper mached background, photos to come of that as i make it!
Thanks for reading my first ever blog, see you all next time!
Sophie Trotter the Potter
