Anguished figure

For this piece, I drew on a lot of anger and frustration that I had been feeling a month before. It wasn't fun, but bad emotions fuel great art. (sometimes)

I used this picture of Furiosa from the movie Mad Max: Fury Road for a reference. The scene really stuck out to me when I first saw the movie. In the scene, you hear no scream, but the agony in her posture and face is crushing.
   

Here's a video (the pictures didn't turn out right)

I glazed the figure with two thick layers of Malcolm Shino, as per my instructor's advice. I'm really proud of how it turned out.

Mugs!

I am really proud of how my mugs turned out. They were supposed to be a set, but I am not good at replicating pottery on the wheel yet.
I glazed this one with Malcolm Shino and then put some Penn State on it. The Malcolm Shino is the brown shade, but when the layer gets thick, this bright orange color shows up. Penn State is the light shade. I rubbed some away on the top with a sponge so that the Malcolm Shino could show through. I hadn't used this glaze before, so I was pleased when it turned out like this.





This little guy was glazed with Antique Green, another glaze I had never used. I really like how it settled into the ridges and turned into a dark blue color.

Ugly Selfie Drawing

The uglier the better.  Send me ugly selfies to draw!

Materials:
-camera phone
-ugly face
-vine charcoal
-sharpie
-eraser
-printer
-paper

Drawing the thing:
1) Take the least flattering picture of yourself.



2) Make it black and white and increase the intensity. You can play around with the contrast too.





3) Print.



4) Outline everything with the vine charcoal and fill in the shadows.



5) Flip it over onto the paper you want the image to go on. Keep the paper still and rub the back of it with your thumb.



6) It should leave an imprint like this:



7) Trace the lines with sharpie and erase the vine charcoal.



You can stop here and hand it on the fridge, but I wanted it to look worse. This was too clean.



Much better.

Ceramics

Ceramics class came to a close yesterday, but I forgot to post all the cool stuff we did. Im pretty proud of the projects that came out of my first ceramics class.

Some of my (and my classmate's projects) being glazed.

More posts soon. I need to get good pictures of the finished products.

Oh!

Along with the crepes, I also made a bunch of pancakes for my little brother. I am a strong believer of playing with my food (it makes it more appetizing).
I used plain old pancake mix, so no recipe there.

 

I filled up one of those condiment squeeze container thingies (you can get them at the dollar store) with the pancake mix for more precision. Do the shapes that you want to be darkest first, then wait a little bit and do the rest of the image.

He loved them.

Crepes!

I made these a few weeks ago and they were absolutely delicious. Unfortunately I was so hungry that day that I forgot to take pictures, but they are too good not to share.

Ingredients:
-1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
-1 tablespoon sugar
-1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
-1 1/2 cups whole milk

-4 large eggs

(you will need a blender, a skillet, and a rubber spatula)

Making the thing:

1) In a blender, combine flour, sugar, salt, milk, eggs, and butter.

2) Puree until mixture is smooth and bubbles form on top (about 30 seconds). Let the batter sit for fifteen minutes.
3) Heat a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium. Lightly coat with butter. 

4) Pour in some of the batter and let it cook until the underside of the crepe is a golden brown.
5) Loosen the edge of the crepe with a rubber spatula, and use your fingertips to flip it (quickly). 

6) Get that side to the golden brown color and slide the crepe out of the skillet.

Repeat with the rest of the batter.

Here are mine!

enjoy!

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Apparently the Mongols ate a lot of sauerkraut, which provided them with a good source of vitamin C, successfully preventing scurvy.