Leather Hard Clay Vessel
Artist Statement: When I look at this vessel, I see a flower. I see seven petals and one middle. It's a very big vessel, that's about 8 inches wide, and about 4 inches tall. I used form as my main element of design to create an organic clay figure. Claude Monet inspired me to create this unique and creative vessel. Although I didn't use some of his ideas on my vessel, he is my favorite artist. The function was to hold plants, specifically flowers, since it is a flower I thought it would be cool to hold other flowers. At the end of the process, I realized it isn't big enough to hold flowers or plants. My mom also loves flowers, and I though it would be a good Mother's Day present. I thought it was overall really successful, even though it may not look very neat or smoothed out. It looks like a flower, and can hold things. I probably should've incorporated more of Claude Monet's ideas, but I had my own idea coming into it, and I think I did an adequate job of executing it.