Empty Bowls Project 2017

How to Make a Bowl. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web.

This project was a big task to take on at the beginning of the semester when we were first learning about how to use and shape clay. The process of making a bowl was to first roll out the clay to 1.5 to 1 cm thick slabs. Next we needed to lay the slab of rolled out clay onto or inside and use the bowl to mimic the shape. This process can be painstakingly difficult as it was the most important step of the process. After the bowl was fitted into the bowl we left the clay to dry, making sure the bowl wasn't cracking inside the mold. Once the clay was dry we could engrave designs of make touch ups to make the as close to perfection as possible. The it was time for the bowl to go into the kiln. After the bows came out of the kiln and were actually bowls now the were ready to be glazed. We painted artistic designs and images onto the bowl and then they went back into the kiln for an even higher temperature so that the glaze can melt and turn into glass. This firing of the glazed bowls was the last step of the process and the bowl was finished and ready to be sold.

This project was, in my opinion, a large success. Not just in the prophets we made in the end but also the experience was a large part of the success of the Empty Bowls project. The way this project dove me to make the best end product that I was able to create was a truly amazing experience. I got to look into a creative side of myself the I don't get to see all that often anymore, now that I am in high school. The project made me think of ideas and force myself to use multiple types of art such as drawing with pencil, for my sketches of ideas, color pencil, for coming up with a color scheme for each bowl, but mainly sculpting, because I did a lot of 3-D work on my bowls forcing me to learn how to make precision cuts and straight lines in order to get the right look. Another way that this project was extremely successful was in the sales at the end of the project and how well all the customers love the handmade products they were buying. The whole project was an amazing experience that is not just helping me in skill development but also that this project is helping the less fortunate people around the world. All of the proceeds are going to an organization to help people that aren't as privileged as us. All in all I am glad that I got to be a part of something larger than just myself, I got to be a part of a group effort to take 

action against hunger all around the world.

Action Against Hunger. Digital image. 
Http://www.actionagainsthunger.org. N.p., n.d. Web.

Reference list

"Steps in the Ceramic Process." Art Insight. N.p., 21 Jan. 2015. Web. 09 May 2017.

"Empty Bowls." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Jan. 2017. Web. 09 May 2017.

"Action Against Hunger logo." Action Against Hunger | ACF-USA - Ending World Hunger & Malnutrition. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 May 2017.