1. Once I finish this piece, I want to give it to my dad for Christmas, because it's based on pottery from his favorite video game. To finish it, it needs to be fired, then I need to add glaze. I think I will make the majority of it terra cotta colored, but the decorations will be navy blue and white. I'm not sure what color I'm going to paint the lid- maybe light brown. 2. So far, I've found that keeping the piece a uniform shape has been really tricky. Some parts on the piece seemed to want to stick out more than other parts, so it looked a little bit off. 3. I think I did a pretty good job with solidly constructing the piece. I don't think it'll be excessively fragile after it's fired, because I solidly attached the decorations and made the piece itself pretty thick. 4. The first thing I did while I made this piece was run a piece of clay through the slab roller. I cut a roughly 3" circle from the slab and used that as my base. Next, I used the coil method, so I made a coil from clay, scored and slipped it and the surface I attached it to, and then smoothed it together. I did that to make the pot's form. It was still a little bumpy, so I used a rib and a metal scraper to smooth it out. Then, I made the bottom decoration by just rolling a coil out and flattening it out, then scoring and slipping the coil and the surface I needed to attach it to. I made the upper decoration by cutting uniform triangles out of a slab, then just attaching them to the pot by scoring and slipping.
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AuthorLayla Ballinger Archives
January 2020
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