Week 15

This week I made my mini series. I made jewelry two rings, although in the drying cabinet one ring broke I will glue it after it has been fired,  two pendants with hearts, crowns, and quotes which I was going to make necklace of after, and another pendant I used my face stamp for. I also finished glazing my teapot and cube jewelry box.  They were fired and bought home. I also made another wavy bowl. It was fired and then I glazed it with melon green low fire glaze. It's waiting in the drying cabinet.

Cube and Combination Forms: Fired and Glazed

Week 14

This week I finished glazing my cube with multiple colored blues to represent the sky the bird was flying in. The inside is a mini universe. It's black with white, yellow, orange, and blue stars and in the center is the Earth; complete with water, green land, snow, and deserts. For my tea pot I am painting it canary yellow, white and black. The inside is yellow, the outside streaked in black with a white handle and spout and yellow flowers. The top is black with yellow flowers as well. I am going to start on my mini series now. I plan to make jewelry.

Week 13

This week I finished the cube project. I found a lot of words relating to of a tangent from the word fly and  carved them on the box; including the four elements. On top is a sculpted dove to be the handle. As well as I reglazed the first slab plates I made, with midnight blue and clear. I also had my teapot fired and am starting my mini series. I plan to make a tea set on the wheel starting tomorrow. Also my mug was fired twice and came out great! Its crackled blue brown and green.

Ideas

Thought this looked cool

Week 12

Since Thanksgiving week was a short week we skipped the blog. This week we worked on our cube project. After cutting my 6 slabs in a 3inx3in square, I covered them in plastic in order for them to become leather hard for the next class. I then proceeded to make each side at a 45 degree angle so when you put two slabs together it made a sharp corner. I also included a coil on every side to give it extra strength. Once the cube was made I cut it in the middle with a squiggly line, for the box to open. Then on the top I sculpted a bird; A dove. Next class I was going to cover it in words related to flight. We also got our mugs back. After a third firing for the high fire glaze, it came out shiny. I used red fire brick with frosted turquoise on top to give it a crackled appearance.