thanks claire
edit: and also, if anyone can suggest some interesting faces i can draw this summer, or send some of their own clear face snapshots or whatever, that'd be great because i'm never taking art again in my life. and i want to make good use of those empty pages in my sketchbook before i say goodbye
school is over, so some of my previously lost works have come flooding back. my art teacher likes to keep our creations without telling us, which is stealing i guess. but anyway.
one of the things i managed to salvage was this little clay bowl from our pottery unit. i handmade it using the coil technique, so it's a little uneven round the edges. then i summoned what i could remember from previous chinese calligraphy classes, and carved the Life symbol that we've all come to know and love. green and pink underglaze, clear overglaze, kiln-bake, voila!
a close-up of the decoration...