My work was considered worthy of the curated CCM ART SHOW.
While I was not explicitly required to sketch in a Ceramics class, I did make some base sketches to prove the design. I made a mood board of existing designs and decided to draw contrast by making a very deconstructed geometric Sake set. And so, PolySake was born.
My Methods took some time to develop. I made several not-very-good molds at the start, which failed mostly because the geometry didn't work well for slipcasting. Once the Polysake design was developed, I 3D Printed a reusable mold to mold the Plaster molds. While using 3D prints to make molds is not my original idea, the concept of a reusable mold to make more slip-casting molds is.
An Alternate colorway I tried using colored slip.
The 3D printing layers act to capture the molten glass that is in the glaze. It creates wonderful variations in the patterns of the Ceramic.
The color variations in the glaze is a natural process in traditional pottery.
This is Tenmoku Glaze
Notice how the molten Glaze pours down and hardens at the bottom of the cup.
This is eggshell Glaze.
An Nvidia Omniverse Render
