Month: May 2019

Pinch pot

 

 

 

to use at home

idiom

Coil bowl

Soap dish

Pinch pot

vase

To start with my first ever pot that i brought home was my pinch pot which i had originally thought was a master piece. Slowly as my skill in making pots increased i realized that my pinch but was way to small, thick, and just overall a bad glazing job. Compared to my mug my pottery skills have gotten way better since the begging of the year. Such as making pots and mugs in different ways and being able to make other things that aren’t pots or cups. My soap dish was the first time i used slab building and it didn’t turn out to bad but as i progressed and practiced more i got better and i was able to make cylindrical and squared shapes. My first and only coil bowl was probably one of my better pots because it had an even thickness all through out but it was slightly to thick.

If i could completely redo a project it probably would be my vase because i didn’t do it cause i had to work on other things. Also because I loved the look and outcome of all the vases that were made. And i wanted to glaze something that big because i wanted to use a splatter effect.

Recently for my mug i used a gray glaze and only that one glaze because i wanted to go for a more of a modern look. I also chose grey because for my embellishment i used a serrated edged scrapper and made a lined decoration on the bottom of my mug. And i thought the muteness of the gray glaze looked the best with the lined decoration.

For my slab letter that is being fired right now i want to use the gray glaze and for the first time a second color which i want to use a sky blue for. I have chosen to use these color because the luminescence of the sky blue contrasts the mute color of the gray nicely. With using the sky blue and gray i can use the sky blue to make certain parts of my project to stand out like if there were little details that a blind eye wouldn’t really recognize i could use the blue to make it pop out towards the spectator.