While doing the tile project I learned how to do additive and subtractive on clay. While doing this project I learned that it is better to have more clay when you are taking away clay so that it has a room for the clay to leave while leaving enough clay to still fire it. Then the opposite of that; you want littler clay when you are adding so that your project is not too heavy. This project was easy, yet hard at the same time. I found this project hard because I had a hard time coming up with ideas. After a while I came up with ideas and just kept them because I couldn't think of anything else. I think that this project was used to serve as inspiration for our future projects. The ideas that we came up with could be transferred to other projects or we could know what we like to do and what we don’t like to do, for future projects. I also think that project was used for Mrs. Murtagh to figure out what we can and can’t do as a class.
Some of the difficulties I had while doing this project were; coming up with ideas to use on my tiles. Some of the ideas that I came up with, I wasn't able to do or I couldn't come up with ideas that I liked. Another problem that I had was letting the tiles dry. A couple timed that I had tiles that I liked and wanted to put them in the kiln, I couldn't because they cracked and broke. They just cracked in the leather hard stage.
I wish that I had glazed them better. On one of the tiles there is a whole area that I missed when I was painting it. I also don’t like that most of my tiles look the same with colors. I was using most of the same colors on all of my tiles without even realizing it. If I could have done this differently I would have took my time. I think that I was just going too fast and needed to slow down.
Some of the difficulties I had while doing this project were; coming up with ideas to use on my tiles. Some of the ideas that I came up with, I wasn't able to do or I couldn't come up with ideas that I liked. Another problem that I had was letting the tiles dry. A couple timed that I had tiles that I liked and wanted to put them in the kiln, I couldn't because they cracked and broke. They just cracked in the leather hard stage.
I wish that I had glazed them better. On one of the tiles there is a whole area that I missed when I was painting it. I also don’t like that most of my tiles look the same with colors. I was using most of the same colors on all of my tiles without even realizing it. If I could have done this differently I would have took my time. I think that I was just going too fast and needed to slow down.