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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. 
I attended class everyday, and cleaned thoroughly at the end of class, and during the last few days of class clean up at the end of the semester. As for leadership, I feel that I have performed well when it comes to helping the beginner students. Almost everyday I helped the beginning ceramics students work on their wheel projects, and actively gave advice and critic to those who needed it in class. 

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?
In all honesty I don't believe that I used that pass at all this semester, and I am always on task during class, whether is be by making new wheel projects, footing, helping others, glazing, etc. I am almost always actively working during class. As for my social-ness during class, I talk with my fellow students and engage in conversation while working on projects, but I always stay on task while socializing, and do not spend an irresponsible amount of time talking and socializing. When it comes to deadlines for assignments, I can occasionally be a couple days late, and maybe even a week if it takes me a while to make it, but I am normally fairly prompt when it comes to turning in assigned projects. 

I didnt get to make anything this week.. And unfortunately all we have done is cleaning of the room and getting ready for the end of the semester presentations. So, there really isnt anything new to say for this week, although my two projects that I made 2 weeks ago did finally come out of the glaze kiln. My tiny little vase is super cute, but the images that I stained on the outside ran a bit, but oh well, still adorable. At the moment it is holding some of my earrings, since that seems like only thing small enough to go inside it haha. The other vase that I made was glazed in half off white and half this new "copper blue" glaze, which I dont really like too much. Oh well.. Next semester I'm going to dedicate myself to trying to make honestly good shaped projects that I put my time into, rather than just random things that dont turn out so well. Thats my goal.

Keep updating with my blog for next semester as well! 

This is a medium sized vase that I made last week and just forgot to post up on last week's blog.. Kind of just something blahh, I don't really have many idea or things I want to make, so I just threw this in my spare time. Its in the bisque now, should come out on Thursday, my little tiny bowl/vase is being glazed. Its going to be white with stained leaves or a message or something like that. I think.. I'm still thinking of ideas. 

I haven't been able to make anything for this week, everything I've touched seems to have fallen apart.. Just not a good week for ceramics I guess, hopefully it will pick up by the end of the week, especially since we only have 5 MORE DAYS OF WET CLAY! AH! Time goes so fast.. 
Oh well, there is always next semester!

This is a project that I made on the wheel today. I started out with a ball of clay larger than the size of my fist, and I had thrown a fairly large cylinder shaped vase and it broke! I had to keep pinning it, and I ended up having a wad of clay about the size of a small plum. This project to the left may look fairly normal, but in actuality its probably not even 2 inches tall or wide! Its sooo tiny!

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.