Lantern

March Update

This is a hump mold bowl. It took a few class periods.

This is a serving tray from a hump mold with sgraffito on the outside and etched painting on the inside. It took at least 5 class periods.

This is a little pitcher for olive oil and a little bowl to grate herbs and dip bread and stuff. It took a few class periods.

Extra Vases

Bottles

Bottles

Lidded Combination Piece

I have finished the body of my jar and trimmed it. The lid is also finished and trimmed.  I still need to add my lid handle and mock handles on the side, and then glaze.  I could be finished before thanksgiving depending on whether it gets fired in time,  I think my only unfinished project is my heart teapot, but I'm still waiting on the white glaze to come in so I can finish painting.

Complimenting Vases

My cylinders were about 6 or 7 inches tall, but each vase failed in a different way and I had to cut off the tops. As a result, both vases are less dramatic than I had hoped (the skinny parts would have been way taller).  They were supposed to be of opposite shapes, and if you flipped one over they would look similar or identical.  The cut lines are meant to draw attention to the fact that the top shape of one is similar to the bottom shape of the other.  To take it further I could have painted half of one one color and the opposite half of the other one that color.

HB Teapot

-With this project, I learned how to hollow out a solid, handbuilt form. I'm also learning to work with velvet underglazes.  

-I came up with this concept in 10th grade, but it was my first clay project and I wasn't ambitious enough to attempt it.  I felt like I should be able to do it now that I'm in ceramics 2.

-The most obvious principle of design is movement.  The wrapping veins-mostly from the way I paint it- will hopefully allow the viewer to imagine blood coursing through the heart.