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This is my double-walled project. From the last post about it, I carved the lunar cycle, a circle pattern, and the word "MOON" into it and then glazed it in purple glaze. It is ready to be fired.
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Today was a glaze day for the projects I had created after break. I glazed the plate in shadow green and then drew lines with metallic brown on it, finally dripping white on top of that as well. For the bowl, I glazed it in gray/blue molted and then splattered white, blue, and Italian straw.
Today, I footed my double-walled project. It is my first double-walled project, and it didn't turn out as well as I thought it would, although the footing made it better. I am now going to practice carving, and will carve different sized circles into the sizes of the double-walled project before I put it in the bisque.
Back from the first day of break, I threw a small cylinder and a medium-sized plate with seamix to get back into throwing again. I also learned how to make a better plate, which is by giving it form - aka not allowing all of the plate base to touch the bat but rather having part of it lifted off.
These four projects came out of the bisque kiln today.
The two plates are the final two pieces to my 3-piece place set I am creating. They will be glazed in pink with white stroked on top with a brush like the first piece. The tall cylinder is an extra credit project with I will glaze in patches, alternating between gray motted and dreamscape green. The wheel-altered project is the third piece to my 3-piece wheel altered set. I will glaze dots of turquoise, blue, and shadow green and then cover it in clear glaze. Today I worked on my sets of three I am creating. The first set of three consists of wheel-altered projects that are glazed with circles in turquoise, shadow green, cobalt blue, and (on some) dreamscape green, and then layered with clear glaze on top. The second set of three consists of three seafoam plates of different sizes, which will all be glazed similarly. This past week I have thrown many projects, and today I finally got to glaze some of them. I tried to experiment with different patterns and color combinations to help expand my ceramics abilities and projects (keep them from all looking the exact same). On 2/4/15 I made a post describing experimental glazes. They came out of the glaze kiln, and turned out the following: The Italian straw and cobalt blue color combination turned out well - I like how the yellow is bright and cheery and the cobalt is darker but still cheery. I really liked how the inside of this project turned out. The outside did not turn out as I had expected - next time I will fill the lines I created in the pot after I put the base coat on so that the glaze is more prominent. This project turned out awfully the first time I glazed it...the glazes were all wrong and messed up because I had wiped off too much of the base brown. Unfortunately, I do not have a photo of its first glaze. This photo is of its second glazing, which looks MUCH better and I love. However, I learned a few things about re-glazing projects due to this:
1) when you re-glaze a project, the clay does not soak up the water in the glaze; 2) due to this, the glaze takes MUCH longer to dry; 3) much less glaze is needed to coat the project in the second glazing - it runs much worse when it is re-glazed than it normally would after the first bisque of the project. Today was a massive throwing day, which consisted of throwing these projects during class as well as after school. The following pictures are creations of the day: (Above) A large lidded project which I threw after school today. In order to do this, I first made the cylinder on the left by pulling a wide base and then pulling the walls up. Then, I took an amount of clay I thought would work to be the right size for a lid and opened twice, first creating the inner ring and then the outer ring. As I made the lid, I made sure to check its size with the cylinder as I made it, and continued to pull out until it fit the cylinder. (Below) This is a small cylinder that will be turned into a nice cup tomorrow when I foot and add the handle (also thrown after school). (Above) This large bowl (created after school) was originally going to be a tall vase, but then I ran out of clay to pull up, so it became a large bowl created without using the ribbed tool. After creating this with just my hands, I think I like creating bowls better with just my hands - the shape seems to turn out better for me. (Below) When I sat down to throw this project during class today, I was not quite sure what I was going to make. As it began to take shape, it looked more and more like a cylinder, but one side was a little thicker than the other, so when it was left without a fancy ending it looked odd. In order to give it a more appealing appearance, I flared the top out and then gave it a wave-like appearance, which greatly enhanced its visual appeal. (Above) The first project I threw during class today was the above vase. Seeing as I had not thrown a vase for quite some time, I figured I would give it a shot and see how one would turn out. For the next vase I create, I plan to make the body more even in curvature and bring the apex of the curve more to the center of the body than below the mid-line.
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