I finished another drum! Finally. It's just a simple, plain one. I was really just trying to perfect the form and make a smooth surface. I feel that I accomplished that so, yeah. Here's the picture of it, and sorry it's fuzzzzzy wuzzy...

I guess that now that I look at it a little more, I need to perfect the circle...

With forecasting taking place last week, my life became a little easier. I decided to take ap again next year so yaya to any other junior who made the same choice!! :)
That's where I'm at right now, and other than that, more of the same haha.
And so, since i need a picture i found one of this chill frog cause this is how I'm feeling about clay right now. I'm pretty chill with it.

So, I've really kind of been struggling to get anything done, and I feel like I've just hit a wall. I hit a super thick, super strong wall, like a wall that would be sufficient to be the door to a vault at the richest bank in the world. I feel like I would have a much easier time if I could make a mold that was a circle. I'm not sure what to do, and that's where my thinking's at right about now.
I found a happy picture of a bouncy ball because it's a perf sphere which is what I need and it's happy. so, yay.

I finished another one. it's pretty much the same as the last but a little different. The neck is shaped a little differently (and attatched in a really crappy way). But it's also a slightly different shape. So yeah, that's about it. and the hole is not so round because I forgot to cut it out until it was bone dry!
But, basically, I've been feeling really uninspired lately, so if anyone has any SERIOUS suggestions about what the heck i should do for the next seven projects please tell me :) and trent, I'm not making a turtle.

Frank Giorgini's Udu Utar Played by Brian Melick

THE PLAYING OF THE DRUM :) for those of you who were just dying to know!! btw it's played by the sexiest man alive, so brace yourself.

In addition, this is the style I've mainly been trying to build lately. More traditionally, they are more round with a neck that blends in well with the rest of the body. Amy doesn't have a good mold for that shape, however, so I've been using the big blue one to make drums more like this one.

january projects

I'm going to miss the deadline. I'm almost done with my second project for january, but I don't even have any kind of idea for what to do with the third one!! If anybody has any ideas or something idk haha help me out please :)))))
Anyway, this is the only project I have completed for the month of january! I made used that half circle blue plastic mold thing to make two almost semi circles. I made them out of coils and I smooshed them together to make that scale pattern thing. Then I beat those with a paddle and attached them together and I made a spout type thing for the neck and cut a hole in it! BAM!! successful udu drum that I'm not too embarrassed to say was constructed by myself.

So, I have been thinking a lot lately that my projects have been lacking a little in the quality department... But now that I have got the first three out of the way, I feel like I now have a pretty good grasp on what it is I will be doing to make my projects wayyyyyy higher quality. I'm going to start working more in parts, and doing things in a less basic way-- adding designs and textures and new parts onto the basic forms. Such as making two drums in one or more complex versions of the original drums.