blog post 3

Envision-

When i was making my coil bowl i noticed that the clay was a little wet so my bowl sort of was flattening out because of the slip like clay. So i held it up a little till it dried a little and it didn’t flatten out. Further on, working on the same coil bowl i noticed it was a little hard to join the coils to the base and to them selves. I also had noticed that if the coils were to big they would break/crack. So i had to make the coils not to big but also not to small because if i had made the coils to small then it would take a lot more coils to make my bowl so it is a little tedious but in the end it turns out nice.

Develop Craft-

When i was making my half coil boil i really didn’t know what i was doing. Like i didn’t know that i was supposed to score the coils before connecting them so my bowl was pretty fragile. I also didn’t know the proper technique to smoothing the coils to the bowl. But in my actual coil bowl i knew how to do these things so the out come of the bowls were jurassicly different.

Engage, Persist, and Express

When you are in pottery class you need persistence because when you screw up you cant just give up you have to keep on going like last week I screwed up so I just went with it and it turned out pretty good.Since the first time making a pinch pot I believe I have come a long way in making pinch pots. The fist time making a pinch pot it turned out uneven and had a lot of cracks but recently I mad a head with hair, eyes, and ears and I believe it turned out amazing compared to my first pot. I believe that knowing the correct vocabulary in pottery class helps because when you are talking about pots in class and you use the wrong word in the wrong context then you look stupid and then people think that you aren’t paying attention. One time we were talking about the pots after the were fired and i said they were bone dry but I was incorrect they were actually bisque. And when you use legit vocabulary you look a lot more educated.