Ceramic Buttons

The Clay, DONE!

This is waiting to be fired sometime this week, woo hoo!

The Clay, (nearly) Finished

Branches added.....

The Clay, Decorated

Next stage- I carved the gaps, yes; but not all the way through. This way it's still stable and... AWESOME!

The Clay, Scratched

Here'some finishing work on the new piece. The idea here is to make holes only in selected loops so that the structure doesn't get weak. At this stage I wasn't yet sure about what I would do in the blank spaces.

The Clay, Crumbled

This was the first version I did. I carved out the negative spaces and started with the finishing and rascal fellow kept cracking violently! Bah!

So I learned the hard way that too many holes makes for unstable clay....
And I started all over again with a different approach.... awesome that I am.

The Clay, Poked

So somehow I never really think about what I'm going to do before class. I just go and waste time there looking around and thinking of things. So here's the latest project- inspired from the image of the Tree of Life carved on one of Ahmedabad's mosques.

This last image is of a sample piece I did to figure out how I'll carve it. The scale of the original print I had was too fine and impossible to work with so I used the branches on the same scale and the details I invented from my own wonderful brain. Because I'm awesome that way.