Well this is going to be the last week of the semester. I am really excited to continue my art work into next semester. I am ready to present to my class on tuesday or wednesday and show them what I have made :)
So this week is the last week of wet clay before we are cleaning up and presenting. I am so glad that I have ceramics next semester so i can continue to throw. Yesterday (1/8/14) I threw a pretty big bowl and it turned out pretty nice. Earlier this week I threw another bowl that was pretty good size (picture of it is below). I also made a "cutting-bored" with a drain circle thing on the outside of it.
Since this is the first week of break I am going to be focusing on finishing my outline for my Theme and hopefully starting my rough draft of the Theme essay. So sad that there will be no projects made for a couple weeks… Luckily that I have many projects that will be used at Christmas dinner.
This week I am not sure how much I am going to get done because of Christmas Break next week... but I hope to get my projects glazed and put into the glaze kiln so I will have them for Christmas... I just I will just have to see how this week is going to go.
This week I made only a few things. Some of my projects came out of the kilns which was exciting, those will be on here shortly. I did try a new technique that relates heavily to my theme (surface design), I tried painting on other clays onto my project which was thrown out of regular clay which I really like the structure of but not how it comes out of the bisque kiln or the glaze kiln with the colors. So I just made a bowl and took some porcelain slip and made it smooth and then just painted the slip onto the bowl. Hopefully when I put it in the kiln it will turn out mostly white like porcelain does. we will just have to see :)
We now have a full week of school. That means I can get some projects made and start to focus on my theme. This week I think I want to focus on throwing bigger than I usually do. I want to make some big bowls and some plates. I think I might make the pages as soft slabs and not on the wheel. I Also want to try and make some mugs as well. We will set just how many projects I very done this week...
so since this week is thanksgiving. we have only 3 periods a day and I only have this class 2 days this week. I did get my teapot done and all attached so I hope that it hasn't cracked. We will see...
This week I am going to really focus on making a teapot. because there is only 4 days I have for ceramics, I need to work extremely hard to get it done.
so I know I havent bloged on this blog much. but I have created a few projects. I made a short and wide vase and I threw with regular clay yesterday. I just made a bowl just to see if I can throw fine with it and for some reason I could. so I hope to make bigger projects with regualr clay.
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