I was looking through youtube videos about ceramics projects and I saw this video and I thought it would be a great project to try and make sometime! Check it out! He makes it seem SO easy to make hah, maybe I'll try to make it when I get back f

This is a wheel thrown planter with a hand made clay nest piece that was slipped and scored on to the lip to make it a hand & wheel project. The planter is approximately 5.25 inches tall by 5 inches wide, and it has a planter ring along the bottom of it and a hand made clay nest with three balls of clay that represent bird eggs, and it is slipped and scored on to the lip of the project. The surface of the planter, both inside and out is smooth, with slightly defined lines, on the inside as result of the finger marks made when it was thrown. The nest is glazed in metallic brown, and the eggs are white. The entire surface of the planter is glazed in off white, and there are hand painted leaves and patches of grass stained in green, and a candy apple red stained heart on the bottom of the inside of the planter. The contrast between the white back ground of the planter and the dark nest, green leaves, and red heart, make the paintings and the bird nest stand out a lot.  

This is an extra choice project that goes along with my theme of Discovery,  and it is a small vase with a lip and no footed ring. It is extremely narrow, only 1 inch in diameter at the lip and 1.75 inches in diameter at the base, and it has a height of 4.5 inches. The vase has a wider base and very narrow top that ends in a outwardly flared lip. There are 8 curved lines that are carved into the outer side of the project that start from the base and move upward. The carved out lines in the outer surface of the project are glazed in off white, while the rest of the vase was painted in cobalt blue, so the thickness of the glaze is not uniform without the entire piece. The contrast between the white carved lives and the darker blue surface gives the project texture and emphasizes its increasingly narrowing width and hight. 

This is a multi-piece project that is composed of two wheel thrown forms that were scored and slipped together into one continuous form. It is 6 inches tall by 4.25 inches wide at the lip of the project, which is its widest  place, and the base has a diameter of 3.25 inches is width. It has a slightly protruding belly and outwardly flared lip, and the base of the project flares slightly out. The entire surface of the project is smooth, besides the small ridge where the two glaze colors overlap. The top 4.5 inches and the interior of the project is glazed in shadow  green and splattered with black, however, the black didnt show up against the shadow green. The lower half and bottom of the piece is glazed in black, and the shadow green dripped and oozed slightly over the top of the black glaze, causing it to have a melting appearance. The transition between the two different glaze colors and textures emphasizes the projects shape, and adds texture to the surface of the projec

This is a cylinder that was thrown on the wheel and its shape was altered by pressing the sides in to make a curving lip. It is approximately 3.75 inches tall by 3.25 inches wide at the widest paralleling sides of the top of the project. The surfaces of the project are entirely smooth, however the walls of the project undulate so that, when looking at the top of the project, it has two inwardly curving sides, and two outwardly bulging sides. One half of the project is glazed in cobalt blue, the other half in celery green, and there is a narrow strip in between the two colors that is just covered in clear glaze. The effects of having the narrow strip of clear glazed wall make the project appear taller on its inwardly curving sides, and the contrast between the light and dark tones of the glazes on opposites sides give the project more textue

Today my planter came out of the bisque and I was able to glaze and stain it, its going to look SO good! I am so excited!! I glazed the whole project white, the nest metallic brown, the eggs white, and I painted green stain in the shapes of leaves and grass on the outside surfaces and on the base of the project on the inside I painted a heart in cherry apple red stain. It looked adorable just sitting on the glaze shelf! I hope it turns out good! I am really excited about this project! Other than that, I really havent done or made anything else this week unfortunately, just not a good week for making projects I guess. Oh well. 

I glazed this project on monday, and it came out of the glaze kiln today, the stripes carved into it are white and the rest I glazed blue with a brush, so it came out a little uneven. But I still thought it looked neat. I'll put a picture of it up soon. Unfortunately I havent been able to make any projects this week, just not a good week for focusing I guess, hopefully my luck with kick in soon. 

This is the improvement of my planter project that I made yesterday, today I footed it and added a small handmade piece :) its a nest with 3 eggs in it, I got the idea from the website I visited looking for theme ideas. If you look at my theme blog you'll see pots similar to this one I've made. I'm really happy with this one, and I can only hope that it makes it through the bisque and glaze kiln! Fingers crossed! 
My multi-piece came out of the glaze kiln today as well, and although the glaze didn't turn out quite like I was thinking I really love how it turned out! I'll try and put up a photo of it soon.  

This is a choice bowl that was made on the wheel. It is 3.25 inches tall and has a base of 2.75 in in diameter and a top of 5.75 inches in width. The bowl has a V shape to it, with a narrower base and wider top; it has a foot ring on the bottom and a smooth surface texture both inside and out. The entire bowl is glazed in cobalt blue with 4 swirls painted in metallic brown on the outer-side of the project, and one on the bottom of the inside of the bowl. The brown swirls however did not turn out out very vibrantly, so the contrast between the solid shape of the bowl, emphasized by the cobalt blue, and the flowing movement of the brown swirls was slightly lost. 

This is a choice project that is a small vase. The vase is taller than it is wide and is a mere 4 by 2 inches is dimension. The vase has a small base, only ___ in in diameter, and the lip of the vase is about the same size, and it has a bit of a "kite" shape in that it has a wider middle that its top or bottom. The texture of the surface of the project, both inside and out, is smooth. The interior and the top half of the project is glazed in cobalt blue, and the bottom half is glazed in an off-white color. The transition between the light and dark colors in the glaze emphasize the dimensions of the vase in that it marks the widest part of the project where the widening affect from the bottom up meets the narrowing section growing towards the lip.