It's Official.

After doing further research of coiling methods, I have OFFICIALLY decided to completely change my concentration. Instead of doing coiled planters with different textures (which was a totally lame idea), my concentration will be the udu drum. It's a type of drum that is made originally in Nigeria by women who use the pinch coil method. There are many different ways that these drums can be made, and I think it's a perfect idea for my concentration. I'm really excited to start working on it.... and I'm going to have to work fast since 2 projects are due in like a week -__-

After seeing photos of the amazing artwork by Wendy Hoare, it's making me analyze my work even more than usual. In class, Amy showed me a magazine that fearured some of Wendy's work, and as I was working on my piece and looking back and forth between the photos and my piece, I started to not like what I was working on. I feel that I am doubting myself as an artist, and I need to realize that Wendy has probably been developing her idea for many years, whereas I have only been working on it for a little while. Maybe in a few years, I can develop my ideas to the point that they are as perfected and as awesome as hers :)

I keep constantly thinking about my concentration, and every time I decide on an idea, I end up deciding it's not good enough or I just don't like it. After doing a little more research, I discovered this technique for placing designs of leaves on pots. I don't want to do an entire concentration on it, but I do want to find some way to incorporate it into my concentration which I'm pretty sure will be something like differently textured coil planters.
This is what it looks like though...