I made my last three projects this week. I made my two plates which I realized need more depth in the plate lip vs the inner area even though it looks flat. I also made my wheel altered project which needed two tries for me because I didn't alter the first one I made the day of and It was harder to get what I wanted the next day with the altered. So I made another one and altered it the correct day and it also taught me to think first and plan before I mess with it. So now the new one isn't exactly even with all the alteredness. They are all in the bisque now. I'll post pictures when they get out of the bisque.
This is all the stuff I've been working on while being sick and in and out of school. Thank you for handling this so well and helping me out.
This week I spent my time in the glaze room. I glazed my mug, vase, and one of my planters. My vase was particularly hard to glaze because I had to dip the vase into a glaze so it would get on the middle part and wipe it off for the top parts. I also tried to keep a glaze contained on my mug worth some tape, but it will drip onto the white below it. The flower in the middle was glazed with special glazes and I had to put 2 layers on it. My planter was the easiest to glaze; all I did was wipe the glaze of the edges to put pink down.
This week I worked on my lidded project. I've learned how to pull up the wall and find the bottom side together. This time to shape it I used the angles with fingers then choked it. The lid was harder to make because i had never made a good one before. I had to push down more on the lip to get it to fit both out and in.
This week I've been working on my vase and making planters. my vase was hard to fit because it got a little dry and the top chipped off some. I also struggled with making bigger planters. I made three. I learned by the third one to actually pull out the lip at the bottom not push it in and make my holder part smaller.
This week I worked on my mug and my vase. my mug is great, it's getting fired as I type. My vase on the other hand, unfortunately died in a footing accident. A gaint one. It was not stuck enough on the wheel and came off and got a bunch of dents in it. I tried to fix it but it didn't work. I did learn to get the lip wet and suction a piece to the wheel which will be helpful next time with a top heavy project.
I made the mug on Thursday of last week and added the handle on Friday. On Monday I added the flower but I'm not sure how it's going to hold up yet because it's hard to see if the slip and score took at that angle.
These are 4 of my first simple projects in the first part of intermediate ceramics. They aren't fancy and I made them pretty quick. 2 were made last week and 2 this week. The footing on one of my tall projects was really thin, but it came out fine with the firing. I'm glazing next week and starting my mug.
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