Mini Series

I'm deciding on making jewelry or a tea set to go with my teapot. Or I might do both :)

Term Two Projects

For the combination piece I am making a teapot. I brought the slabs home and it is put together and finished, in terms of building and sculpting. For the box project I am making a jewelry box by the dimensions of 2in x 2in x 2in. It will be sgraffitoed in black englobe and have a domed top with a sculpted bird as the handle. I plan to sgraffito trees and lines freehand onto the sides. And for the series I plan to make clay jewelry, but I'm not completely sure yet. I know the cube had to be designed first, but I was thinking the teapot was the cube project originally. So I'm doing mine out of order; with the combination first. So here is my drawing, prototype, and rough creation.

This is the drawing for the cube.

Fired Pieces

Week 10

This week my mug broke, the one I was was working on for the last two weeks. It's very frustrating when you have to start from scratch with a dead line. I decided to take clay home and start over there, instead of getting through the project with a crappy replacement. I did save the handle from the broken mug and wrapped it in wet paper towels and plastic wrap for an hour. It was like brand new clay, so it was easy to place the handle on the new mug. I went with a different design, with a K, a moon and sun. I also used a DD cup to keep this new mug round. I also designed my next project which is my interpretation of the cube project. As well as the pinch pots got fired (next post)

The first design I choose was the phoenix, but it broke so it was reborn as the sun and moon.

Here is the new mug and old handle

The tools

Making it round(er)

Attached!

Sun

K

Moon

For the "Combination" project I plan on making a teapot with the following pieces and dimensions.

Week 9

This week we continued to put our mugs together and carve(hopefully). With the hurricane we had two classes so this is short. When we had a sub and I helped teach her how to make a pinch pot and then continued carve my mug. Our pieces were fired and two have to be re-glazed  as well as the stopper has to be remade smaller.