Slump Mold
Analasis
Plan
I saw someone had made some sort of ombre piece, and I fell in love with the idea, so I tried to apply it to a bowl, which was challenging. The paint job worked wonderfully, but my slump mold skills ruined it; the edges cracked, and the bowl was stuck. So if I had another chance, I would have kept more of an edge on the bowl and dried it slower.
I wanted an ombre bowl full of color and just a basic bowl shape.
Sgrafifto
Analasis
I saw this darling drawing of a stingray on Pinterest and decided I needed him. In the end, I didn't wait for the underglaze to dry enough, so my dots are just black holes. I also put a tad too much clear glaze on in hopes of filling the holes. I still love the piece, but if I re-did it, I would put much more time into making it smoother and perfecting the design.
Plan
Wedge, roll out thin, place on the slump mold, dry, under glaze, carve, fire, glaze.
Coil Building
Analasis
Plan
This piece wanted me to fail. I started with an elaborate design with a variety of spirals. Yet no matter how hard I tried, they wouldn't stick. Thus, I scrapped the idea and took the coward's way out. It's messy, rushed,d and made with spite rather than love. I would have loved to have spent the time to bring my first idea into reality and have less of a representation of how my life currently feels.
Wedge, extrude, shape, dry, fire, glaze.
Relief Carving
Analasis
I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, so I looked at human anatomy. I have a near obsession with how the human body works, so I chose to carve a heart. It's not super accurate, but it doesn't have 7 chambers. If I could retry it, I would make the heart more accurate and I would have chosen a different glaze.
Plan
I really wanted a heart to hang on the wall. I originally wanted to use a blooming glaze, but there wasn't any left in the colors I wanted. I also considered a white glaze that I now wish I had used.
Slab Building With Darts
Analasis
This duo I'm quite proud of, its a matching set for my sister. I thought the blooming glaze represented our personalities well. The first one (blue) was my first attempt, bumpy and experimental. The second (pink) cup has a new design with a triangle instead of a square and is beautifully smooth and well-crafted. The poor blue cup, as meaningful as it is to me, definitely deserves more than the fate I doomed it to with its poor design.
Plan
Wedge, roll out thin, measure bottom, cut out bottom, measure walls, cut and bevel, attach walls to bottom, smooth, fire, glaze.
