Slab house: My room
For this project, I decided that I wanted to do a slab house of my room. To be honest, I was too tired after attempting and failing to do the Victorian mansion (too little time, too much frustration) and I just wanted to do a simple room that I was familiar enough with.
This slab house, like every other slab project that we did, was a pain. I never really liked slab pots because I felt like I wasn’t really building something out of clay. If you haven’t noticed from a lot of my other works, I enjoy making curvy organic shapes. A lot of my work is pre-planned, but a lot of ideas also come while making the pot itself (which, with clay, is really easy to incorporate). However with slab houses, all the measurements have to be exact, all the plans have to be on point before making the pot, and there is very little room for error
My slab house was pretty simple in clay design (as in, it didn’t have a lot of the little details) Part of the reason was because I was tired of slab building, but it was also because the walls took such a long time to stick on properly (it has to be the perfect dryness/wetness for it to stick and not collapse) that I was worried that accidently tapping on them while making my other little details would knock them over (that happened twice). I eventually did the details with paint.
Most of the details in the room are actually what my room looks like. I have a random colorful pink and orange elephant painting hanging above my actual desk, a purple and white flower bed sheet & comforter for my bed, a black chair, and a curled up Cookie sleeping either on my lap or the side of my bed.
If I did something differently in the future, I definitely would have made all of the pieces, but wait until after the pot has been fired to stick them together. The high walls made it extremely difficult for me to paint all the sides in detail and the painting process took longer than it could have.
This slab house, like every other slab project that we did, was a pain. I never really liked slab pots because I felt like I wasn’t really building something out of clay. If you haven’t noticed from a lot of my other works, I enjoy making curvy organic shapes. A lot of my work is pre-planned, but a lot of ideas also come while making the pot itself (which, with clay, is really easy to incorporate). However with slab houses, all the measurements have to be exact, all the plans have to be on point before making the pot, and there is very little room for error
My slab house was pretty simple in clay design (as in, it didn’t have a lot of the little details) Part of the reason was because I was tired of slab building, but it was also because the walls took such a long time to stick on properly (it has to be the perfect dryness/wetness for it to stick and not collapse) that I was worried that accidently tapping on them while making my other little details would knock them over (that happened twice). I eventually did the details with paint.
Most of the details in the room are actually what my room looks like. I have a random colorful pink and orange elephant painting hanging above my actual desk, a purple and white flower bed sheet & comforter for my bed, a black chair, and a curled up Cookie sleeping either on my lap or the side of my bed.
If I did something differently in the future, I definitely would have made all of the pieces, but wait until after the pot has been fired to stick them together. The high walls made it extremely difficult for me to paint all the sides in detail and the painting process took longer than it could have.