My choice

This piece was my own choice and what the piece was is a simple tray but in the center there is a traced star fish in the center with lots of line work around the star fish. I started off with just a simple slab roll and my first idea was to create something from the sea so I started off with a regular fish but then I had gotten the idea of creating a star fish tray and I just went with it.  I used an outline of a star fish in the center then I just had to create some thin lines around it to use up the negative space.

When it went into the kiln I had to think of some glaze ideas if I wanted a high fire or a regular glaze. I went with a regular gloss glaze because I wanted to have it ready before the end of the year and I chose the gloss glaze Royal Blue and put 3 coats on then once that dried I coated it with a clear glaze so the firing wouldn't damage the glaze.

 This piece has some line work element because of the lines outside the star fish as it takes up the negative space. There also seems to be some emphasis around the star fish because that is where my eye focuses on the most throughout the whole piece. Some other principles throughout this piece are balance because it brings the piece together and another principal is rhythm because of the repeating line work. 

I am not that impressed because it was something quick to make up some of my passed assignments that I have not done yet. The glaze colors look really nice on the piece and I am proud of what it turned out to be after the kiln and firing.