I made these pieces in my ceramics class and I am happy with how it turned out this was my first time working on clay like this so it was a whole new experience.
The piece below is one of the second thing I made during the coil project. The object of the project was to make coils and only coils to make things. This piece was made wraping a coil around then smoothing it out. I glazed it with a color called Moo's Blue and as you can see the color isn't blue that is because it is a apparently it was too thin a layer of glaze and if you do that then you get a caramel brown color but it is a happy little accident.
This dish I made during the coil project as well. The coil design is only on the interior of the piece. The design is a spiral in the center then a symmetrical design around the circular spiral shape. The glaze I chose was a initial dip into the oxblood which is a strong red color and then a dip into chun a light blue which would of given the piece a dark purple color. My teacher calls oxblood to be the masochist's glaze cause it often fails to give you that red you want. It was yet another happy little accident though as the light blue clear with hints of green that is on the piece looks really cool up close. There is also tiny cracks in parts of the glaze under the other one which gives the illusion of cracked ice or something to that effect at least.
The piece below is one of the second thing I made during the coil project. The object of the project was to make coils and only coils to make things. This piece was made wraping a coil around then smoothing it out. I glazed it with a color called Moo's Blue and as you can see the color isn't blue that is because it is a apparently it was too thin a layer of glaze and if you do that then you get a caramel brown color but it is a happy little accident.
This dish I made during the coil project as well. The coil design is only on the interior of the piece. The design is a spiral in the center then a symmetrical design around the circular spiral shape. The glaze I chose was a initial dip into the oxblood which is a strong red color and then a dip into chun a light blue which would of given the piece a dark purple color. My teacher calls oxblood to be the masochist's glaze cause it often fails to give you that red you want. It was yet another happy little accident though as the light blue clear with hints of green that is on the piece looks really cool up close. There is also tiny cracks in parts of the glaze under the other one which gives the illusion of cracked ice or something to that effect at least.
Same piece farther away
This was a tree I made at the very beginning of class. I originally didn't know how to attach two piece together properly so this actually fell apart after the first firing when I was glazing it. The glaze actually turned into the right color this time I wanted it to be black. The tree part of the piece dropped into the glaze bucket when I was lifting it back up after the initial dip. Luckily it didn't make a splash I did though get glaze past my elbow reaching down into the bucket to find the tree. The glaze firing stuck the two piece back together again and I am happy that this piece is still good to go. I just wanted to make a tree and thought about a dish around it so I could put stuff in it or a shallow pool of water. Many girls in the class and my family told me it looks like a jewelery holder which it actually does function as one really well. rings and bracelets go on the tree branch really well. Nik-Naks can go in the dish it works out really well at this moment there is nothing I can use it for so for the time being I am just leaving it on a shelf.
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