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Missing milk carton princesses

Here is the milk carton I created featuring two missing princess or such, first being baby Rapunzel and the other being little red riding hood

#art project #art school #art #clay #ceramics #milk carton #saturday cartoons #cartoons #fairytales #little red riding hood #rapunzel #tangled #walt disney movies #disney

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Project statement

For this project I spent my time looking at cartoons and their influences on children. I read articles that talked about how what children see in cartoons can influence their opinions and understanding of the world around, and what morals these cartoons teach.

From this research I looked at cartoons from my childhood and the times I spent watching them. It was a very nostalgic project for myself. After creating many pieces of cartoons ceramics I felt like I wasn’t exploring my topic enough it was too vague and wasn’t connecting with what I was trying to explore. Which got me thinking about the activity of watching cartoons and how it was like a ritual at least for me as a child. This sparked the idea of a Saturday morning cartoon breakfast. Every morning as a child I would get up at dawn it seemed like to watch cartoons. This was a key part of my childhood. I thought what better exploration of story/stories than to explore the visual stories of cartoons and that morning ritual. Although I may have done this in a simple way by simply creating ceramic pieces influenced by cartoons I think I was able to capture the imagination of a child by creating these pieces.

For this project I set goals for my self which I think I accomplished. I wanted to explore the medium of clay and what I could do with it and I learned a lot of techniques and information that will help me in my second year. I wanted to explore the meanings behind the cartoons I was researching which I did more some than others for example:

Adventure Time teaches children acceptance, tolerance, bravery, loyalty, courage, being adventurous etc

Coraline teaches children bravery, curiosity, acceptance, being great full of our parents

Disney reimagines stories from popular storytellers like The Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen, changing scary warnings into cheerful stories for example to be curious, take chances, speak up, work hard and you’ll achieve your goals, you control your limits, try new things be adventurous, be kind, don’t judge a book by it’s cover, and embrace who you are.

Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki in particular wants to teach children and viewers to appreciate the little things in life and that it’s good to be alive we may find hardship along the way but we come out stronger and wiser.

Nightmare Before Christmas teaches leadership, that it can be lonely at the top, to be passionate about what you love, not everyone will understand you but that’s ok, to look at things for a different perspective, that’s working hard pays off.

#art project #art school #lsad #ceramics #clay #story project #story #art project statement

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Ceramic Photoshoot

Here are the final photos of my project where I showcase all the pieces I made. I decided to display them outside as a saturday morning breakfast with all my playful cartoon pieces. i really love how these photots turned out i took them on Canon EOS 350d it maybe old but its always been my favorite.

#art project #lsad #art school #art #clay #ceramics #story project #story #cartoon network #cartoons #saturday cartoons #adventure time #winnie the pooh #cute #kawaii #breakfast #we bare bears #ice king #gunter #princess bubblegum #lumpy space princess #plankton #spongebob squarepants #photography

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Photographed Ceramics

Here are some of the ceramic pieces i finished for my final set. I decided to photograph them outside to make them come off as more playful.

#art project #art school #clay #ceramics #story project #story #cartoon network #saturday cartoons #cartoons #art #air dry clay #egg plate #peppermint butler #adventure time #kawaii #cute #bread plate #winnie the pooh #gunter #ice king

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Bernard Palissy

Bernard Palissy was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rustic ware", typically highly decorated large oval platters featuring small animals in relief among vegetation, the animals apparently often being moulded from casts taken of dead specimens.

One of my Ceramic teachers recommended me this artist. Looking at his work I am really intrigued by his attention to detail and how intricate these bowls and plates can be. I like how he particularly studies his forms from real animals although I heard that they weren't necessarily alive. His pieces always look like they emerged from the habitat that they were based on.

Sources:

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/106008/attributed-to-bernard-palissy-oval-plate-french-mid-16th-century/

https://francearchives.fr/fr/commemo/recueil-2010/39153

https://www.mba-lyon.fr/fr/fiche-oeuvre/plat-decor-de-rustiques-figulines

https://www.pinterest.ch/pin/384002305710056794/

https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/75709/view

https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/50074104761

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Palissy

#art project #art school #art research #clay #ceramics #ceramic artist #Bernard palissy

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Pendleton Ward

Pendleton Ward is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor who works for Cartoon Network Studios, Frederator Studios and Netflix Animation. He created the Emmy Award-winning series Adventure Time, the Internet series Bravest Warriors, and the adult animated interview series The Midnight Gospel. Ward is a graduate of the CalArts (California Institue of theArts) Animation Program. Ward became interested in animation at an early age, inspired by his mother, who is an artist and worked with animators. He started drawing flipbooks in first grade. Ward attended CalArts, where he became friends with J. G. Quintel and Alex Hirsch. They later worked on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack together. Eric Homan, vice president of Frederator Studios, offered Ward a job at the studios after watching one of his films at the annual CalArts animation screenings. Ward created two shorts called The Bravest Warriors and the Adventure Time animated short. The Adventure Time short was made in 2006 and went on to become an internet phenomenon in 2007, with over a million views by November of that year. Ward initially pitched Adventure Time to Nickelodeon but was rejected. It also took some time before Cartoon Network decided to pick it up. Sometime during the fifth season of Adventure Time, Ward abruptly stepped down from running the show, explaining it was negatively affecting his "quality of life". In the October 2, 2014 edition of the Rolling Stone magazine, Ward stated "I quit because it was driving me nuts". However, he continued to work as one of the show's writers and storyboard artists until the end of season six, and still served as an executive producer up until the series finale. Now Ward had stopped writing episode outlines at the beginning of season 7 but still looked over them and provided input. Now Ward works on an adult animated Netflix original show called The Midnight Gospel, about a guy called Clancy who is a space-caster who uses a multiverse simulator to interview beings living in other worlds.

For this project, I thought there was no better artist than Pendleton Ward to look at. Especially since he has worked as one of my greatest influences for this project which is Adventure Time. When I began this project Adventure Time was one of the first story items I picked. I think this show teaches a lot of lessons to children or to anyone who watches it. Adventure time is a very uplifting happy cosy show to watch. When looking at what it teaches to its viewers I saw bravery, loyalty, doing the right thing, acceptance and tolerance which you may not see directly but let me explain.

Adventure Time takes place on post-apocalyptic Earth where mutations occurred in humans. Everyone has these mutations, so everyone looks different. The entire population is a mix of different shapes, sizes, and colours. The things are, these mutations are not seen as mutations, really, because the people in Adventure Time don't know of a world where anyone was uniform. In the show, people are generally accepted how they are, no matter what "flaws" they may have.

In our time, this can be related to social judgements or prejudices of any kind. These can be based on race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, and more. The acceptance promoted in Adventure Time teaches kids how to accept others around them, no matter if they have qualities that make them different.

Here are the ceramic works I have made influenced by Wards work:

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Ward

https://time.com/66262/adventure-time-season-six-preview/

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/adventure-time-the-trippiest-show-on-television-84180/

https://twitter.com/catsuka/status/1108123185613078528

https://www.rotoscopers.com/2015/11/10/adventure-time-movie-will-happen-when-pendleton-ward-finds-a-premise/

https://www.sacurrent.com/ArtSlut/archives/2019/12/20/netflix-announces-new-animated-series-from-adventure-time-creator-and-san-antonio-native-pendleton-ward

#art school #art project #art research #art project research #adventure time #land of ooo #pendleton ward #the midnight gospel #the marvelous misadventures of flapjack #story project #story #cartoon network #frederator studios

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Henery Selick (Research for Coraline & Nightmare Before Christmas)

Henry Selick is an American stop motion director, producer, and writer who is best known for directing the stop-motion animation films The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Coraline (2009). Selick studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts and later worked for Walt Disney as an animator trainee. Until he became a full-fledged animator while working on The Fox and the Hound. During his time at Disney, he met and worked around the likes of Tim Burton. Selick's first feature with LAIKA was Coraline, based on the novel Coraline by acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, and released in 2009. It was the first stereoscopic stop-motion animated film. Selick left Laika in 2009 after the production of Coraline. He returned to Pixar and Walt Disney in a long-term contract to exclusively produce stop-motion films returning to his roots. He now works in a new studio called Cinderbiter Productions with many promises to come.

Coraline and Nightmare Before Christmas have been some of my favourite films since I was a child. So of course working with this project which investigates cartoons and movies (Stories) and their influences on children, I wanted to look back at films from my past and create ceramic pieces and items that were influenced by these films. Here art the pieces I made :

Oogie Boogie children mask

Other mother hand of wire

Other mother cup

Coraline cup

Here is a Video of The Making Of-The Nightmare Before Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLw-Fo8uhis

Here is also another excellent video of LAIKA | Coraline | Behind the Scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXqqd0ZBEMA

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Selick

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/henry-selick-is-reviving-the-shadow-king-synopsis-and-first-artwork-released-77539.html

https://www.thepropgallery.com/henry-selick-hand-drawn-storyboard-artwork-ii

https://www.thepropgallery.com/henry-selick-hand-drawn-storyboard-artwork

https://www.animationforadults.com/2016/10/an-evening-with-henry-selick.html

#art project #ceramics #story project #art project research #project research #henry selick #coraline #nightmare before christmas #animation #cartoons #movies

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Making a strawberry heart tray

Which unfortunately broke so I need to repair it.

#art project #lsad #art school #art #ceramics #clay #story project #story #strawberry

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Snail cup from AdventureTime

On Friday I sat down and decided to make one of my sketched out ceramics and this is how it turned out.

#art project #lsad #art school #art #clay #ceramics #air dry clay #adventure time #garden snails #snail from AdventureTime #story project #story #cartoons #cartoon network

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Recent clay works

Here are the pieces I have been working on recently. Along with a sketch sheet of the items I need to make and possibly designs.

Here is the egg plate I made for the adult or teenage

Here is the kodama center piece sitting at the base of a tree log which is a vase

Here is a lemon head juicer I made referencing a his image :

Here is a cute bread plate a made to hold fresh bread.

Here is a little honey spoon I made which is for my Winnie the Pooh jar. It was a curvy tree branch as a handle

And here are the recent painting items I’ve worked on:

A Peppermint Butler plate

#art project #art school #art #clay #ceramics #air dry clay #saturday cartoons #cartoons #peppermint butler #lemon grab #winnie the pooh #kawaii #cute

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My ceramic sketch’s influenced by Miyazaki’s work.

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author,  manga artist and a co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio. some of his most credited works are Howls moving castle (2005), The Wind Rises (2014), Ponyo (2009), Princess Mononoke (1999), My Neighbor Totoro (1988),  The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Castel In The Sky (1989), Spirited Away (2002) and Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989). In his career, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of animated feature films and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation. Since I was a young child I’ve always loved Miyazaki’s films, there’s just something about that that warms and comforts the heart, therefore they are very special to me. I also view them as masterPieces every frame is beautifully detailed. For this projective spent some time painting special moments of the films that I love, because I feel that they capture the beauty of nature and overwhelming emotion.

Miyazaki’s Concept Art:

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Marc Davis

Marc Davis was one of the very famous animators which worked for Walt Disney Animation Studio from 1937 until 1978. What Walt Disney liked about Davis was that he wasn't just an animator he was also able to create a story. Davis also mainly worked with the female characters although he didn't really like this role, he still worked his best-giving character's personality. He worked on films such as Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Robin Hood. As you can see Davis worked on many of Disney's famous films.

For my project, I used Disney as one of the cartoon areas I would explore. From the films I decided to look at, I created ceramic pieces influenced by those works.

My Ceramic Sketches which were influenced from Disney and some of Davis’s work

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Davis_(animator)#Films

https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/marc-davis/

https://eatdrinkfilms.com/2014/05/15/my-wonderful-evening-with-marc-davis-one-of-walt-disneys-nine-old-men-part-1-of-2/

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/09/animating-the-disney-parks-marc-davis/

#marc davis #disney #walt disney movies #cartoon #art project #art school #art project research

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An Important artical

An Important artical which aided my project research. which speaks about the influences of cartoons on children and how impressionable they can actually be. I would highly recommend reading.

https://reporter.rit.edu/features/how-childhood-cartoons-script-your-thoughts-today

#Cartoons #childhood #influences #project research #art project research #art project #Art School

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Recent clay works

Here are some recent pieces I’m working on.

This one was to demonstrate texture, carving and twisting of clay.

This was a pot I was initially going to make a cup from but that failed so I got this interesting pot which I made hunk looks like an animal crossing nook’s bag of bells, except open.

A spaceship egg holder

A jam jar still being made (bottom) + inspiration

#art project #lsad #art school #art #clay #ceramics #story project #story #jam jar #texture #animal crossing

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Nightmare before Christmas work

Here are some works I planned up for paper mache and plater of Paris. I thought these would be a great way to use different materials

#art project #lsad #art school #art #plaster of paris #papers #clay #nightmare before christmas #zero #mask

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Other mother hand mug

On Tuesday I spent some time making this wire hand from Coraline which I hope to form into a handle of a cup or mug, but I’m not sure if it will more so just a little experiment.if I fine myself with any extra time I might recreate this from needles, because I never noticed it was made from needles!!

Reference:

#art project #lsad #art school #art #clay #ceramics #story project #story #wire art #coraline #the other mother

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Sketchbook pages

For his story project

#art project #art school #clay #ceramics #story project #story #sketchbook