Today I footed, or attempted to foot, the red/white marbled clay bowl that I threw yesterday.. and it broke! :( I went through the bottom! I was so sad..
I also tried to glaze my wheel altered project, the one with the bent sides and I completely messed up and had to wash off all the glaze and start over. I wasn't able to finish by the end of the period today so it is on the shelf waiting to be finished and put on the glaze shelf. I'm galzing it in the off/white beigh color and then I was planning on dotting black on the two convex sides that buldge out. I hope it turns out ok, I guess it was just too wet to glaze today... Oh well. Always next week.
I also mentioned awhile ago about the other wheel alter project that I did, the one I tried to glaze like a flower? With the cut lip? And it turned out horribly! The glaze turned out horribly, the red glaze and black stain didnt even show up at all, so I tried to glaze another layer of red today, but I have almost completely given up on this project. It just isn't turning out how I'd like. At all. Which is teribly unforunate. Ugh.
Better luck next week, next quarter! Maybe I was just having a bad week to finish the quater off? Wonderful. Oh well!
In a quareter review blog please respond to this …
Please describe your efforts towards participation and leadership. Did you take care to clean well? Mention if you were attentive at the beginning of class every day.
In class I am an actively participating student. I help the beginners who don't have assistant on their wheel projects and I clean up my wheel, splash, buckets, bats, sponges, and tools every day 10-15 mins before the bell rings for class to get out. There have been times however, when I am discussing my excitement about newly glazed projects and upcoming assignments during the beginning of class when I should probably wait to talk about those kinds of thing until after Ms. H is done talking.
How often do you use the pass? Are you on task every day and all period? How social are you versus how much work do you do? How closely do you meet assignment deadlines?
I have only used the pass maybe twice or three times this whole quarter and it is usually at the very beginning of class because I did not have time between class periods to take care of whatever I had to do. I am on task and attentive every day in class and I am always working on a new project, glazing, footing, or helping others with their projects. I am social in class, but I always get my work done at the same time. So far I have met all of the assignment deadlines, and in only a couple cases have I been late by just a couple days because of my project coming out late from the bisque or glaze kiln.
This is a small V shaped bowl that I made on Wednesday and footed today, its drying in my locker right now, hopefully I'll be able to get it into the bisque in time for quarter's end. I wonder what I'll glaze it.. Probably dark green, I seem partial to that glaze lately. Hm. We'll see.
So today I threw this bowl shaped thing.. Its not very good, and I dont exactly like it very much but it was more of an experiment, its made with marbled clay, which is a mixture of regular and red clay. Its pretty cool looking, I hope it turns out ok.. Haven't ever thrown with red clay before, so its a new adventure hah.
This is a plate that was thrown on the wheel. It has a diameter of about 8.25 inches and a height of approximately 0.25 inches. It has no foot ring, and a off centered sloping lip, but the interior and underside of the entire project has a smooth texture. The plate was glazed in dark green all over, but there were areas where wax was painted on in designs and it left striped lines along the base of the plate and a non-glazed swirl in the center of the interior of the plate.
This is a project that I made on Friday, intending on making it into a mug, but when I took off the bag on Monday it was warped and bent, so I turned it into a another wheel altered project. I footed it today.
Not to mention that my other wheel alter, the one with the cut up lip finally came out of the bisque and I glazed it Monday and today, I am SO excited for this one to come out. It is dipped in a super watery yellow and covered with tomato red glaze and then Ms. H had me stain it with black, its going to look like a redy-orange flower with black outlined petals! I am SO excited! It should come out tomorrow!
Oh! And my other plate should be out tomorrow out of the bisque too, plus I had another extra project come out of the glaze kiln today, I really like the glaze on it. I think I'm going to try that technique again sometime.
Plus I really need to get started on my mug.. Soon!
This is a petite little plate that was made on the wheel. It is approximately 6.25 inches in width and barely 0.75 inches in height. The plate has a smooth surface all over, and it has a thickly balled lip around the edge and a bit of an indent around the outer edge of the interior of the plate's surface. It also has a footed ring on the bottom. The entire plate is glazed in a dark green glassy glaze that pooled in the base of the plate and turned out looking more speckled-blue rather than dark green once it came out of the kiln.
Some ceramicists create multiple ceramic projects with the intention of making the multiple projects related in some manner, and some of the techniques that ceramicists might use to emphasis this relation is my using similar glaze colors and patterns, as well as similar shapes and forms. These are three individual projects that share faintly similar shapes and glazes, and these similarities are intended to illustrate the connection between the three different wheel projects. Each project is a wheel thrown bowl/vase pot with a footed rings and lips. The first bowl is 6.25 inches wide by 3 inches tall, the second one is 5.2 inches wide by 3.2 inches tall, and the third is 5.2 inches wide by 4.2 inches tall. In all of the projects the walls are uniformly thick and smooth, having narrower bases and wider tops, each project also has a lip and slightly bubbled or convexly curved walls. Projects 2 and 3 have gently outward flaring lips, where as bowl 1 has a fairly flat lip. All three of the projects are entirely covered in a matte turquoise glaze that turns out more green than turquoise or blue after the kiln. The identical glaze color and pattern, as well as the fairly similar shapes/forms, of the three individual projects clearly demonstrates the intended relation between the three pieces based on the creator's opinion.
I made TWO plates today! Count them: ONE, TWO! I am so happy :) the one on the right is fairly small and pretty thin, I'm hoping it doesnt break when I foot it tomorrow, the one on the left though is huge! For being only my third plate anyways hah. But its my favorite so far, fingers crossed it turns out well when I foot it tomorrow.
Put 2 projects onto the bisque shelf, hopefully able to get these two in before end of term. I'm running out of time! Goodness, I wish I owned a wheel..
