My pilimanary designs were an elephant, a mermaid, a dolphin, a lioness, an a crane with a fish.
The form of my mermaid is her on a rock. The texture is mostly smooth unless you are feeling the rock with multiple items on it like starfish, and barnicles. The movement is her in a freeze motion waving her hair back. I made this mermaid because i really like mermaids and im complely fascinated with them.
Working with clay
I really enjoyed working on this project because I enjoyed the feel of the the clay between my fingers. But I did not enjoy the smell... At first I tryed to make a baby elephant with its trunk in the air but over spring break it dryed, so I atemped to 'revive' it by puting it in a bucket of water. Sadly the desired affect was not the case, insted of making it wet again the water completly disintegrated it and my baby elephant was nothing but a pile of clay mush. Thankfully, Mr. Purdy let me start over with a new clump of cay and I sucessfully created the creature that I really like, a mermaid. Curently my creatoin is in the kiln and when it comes out I will paint it. I am sort of freaking out about painting it because I am horrible at painting things. I guess I will see how it goes.