The Design Addict vase project continues on its way. You can read the story about it in the main thread (link below).
We opened this new thread for those who do not wish to stop the brainstorming about the other possibilities. It is great fun and there's no reason to stop. But, of course, it is just for the fun, DA does not have the vocation to become editor of a long series of vases.
Here is a drawing of SDR based on a proposal of Heath.
The first sketch is great...
The first sketch is great SDR,I like the way it slumps and looks loose. I'm again grateful you took time to do it. I think a parchment colour would look quite good, I'll talk to a ceramics teacher I know and see if she thinks anything can be done with the idea, I might be able to con her into getting a student to have a go.
Yeah, I
like the softness of it, too. The first one I did (not shown) had the same spiral but was squatter and. . .just sat there.
It would be fun if someone wanted to try to make it work.
The plan views were of other vases that would have various levels, with dividers to separate and support the stems -- as many of the other designs showed.
I'm not sure
if this piece could easily be cast; I'm thinking it might want to be hand-built, coiled up from a single piece, with a bottom disc. But I'd be interested to know what a ceramist would suggest.
Here's my idea of the opposite side of the vase:
This is the approximate plan at the top:
and the approximate plan at the middle and the bottom:
yeah , my thinking was that...
yeah , my thinking was that it would be a bugger to cast aswell and that I might try to roll it up with a layer of neoprene or rubber and cloth, wait for that to dry off a bit pull out the neoprene and then do the base by hand (if what I remember from high school art is correct) but she said to just do elevations and a cross section and she would consider it. I will probabaly do a fairly regular (perpindicular) set of drawings and see how it goes.
Sounds good.
I did just enough (?) ceramic work in college to have some idea of the material (s) and the limitations. I hadn't heard of the neoprene trick -- that's interesting.
A friend who looked at the first drawing said "how does it hold water ?" I figure if the closure occurs at the bottom two-thirds that should be good enough ?
I don't know if the...
I don't know if the foam/neoprene idea will work, it was just an idea I had off the top of my head. I agree about the 2/3 up the side idea, perhaps a little higher? I was thinking of having the spiral run the full height of the vase, it strikes me that would be easier in terms of production, but we'll see.
SDR...
This vase took me along time to respond to because the first drawing seemed too sand castle-ish for my taste. The spiral builds to predictably to be interesting.
But the drawing from the opposite side really appeals to me. I would like the entire vase to sit like a slightly unfolded scroll. If that's what you have in mind here, then it would be very pleasing to the eye and allow a spiral distribution of the flower arrangement.
Hi, HP, SDR and DC
I love the principle, but I can't see how it could be done other than so called slab-building. Even than the spiral hanging somewhere in the air has to be supported until dry..or almost. It means that any kind of support has to be taken out from the top between the walls of the spiral. I am sure the spial wall will break before that support is out, even if it is a foam. One possibility is to put light styrene foam in the vase and hope that it will absorb the shrink of drying. The styrene can be left inside as it will burn during the firing, leaving no residue. Sometimes simple and logical shapes are extremely complicated to make. This is a good exemple....but I am going to give it a try...and let you know.
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