Since I had to make at least two hand built projects, I made one small and one big. Unfortunately, my slab box couldn't be found. This is the only hand built project I have besides my tree trunk. It isn't anything big, but I'm hoping that all of my other wheel thrown projects could make up for a missing box.

This bowl had many dips on the outside. Even after glazing it as well as I could, it still left small bubbles. The glaze didn't turn out even either. I still liked the end result, but it could have looked much better.

This was probable my favorite one I made. The light blue with all of the bright colors go so well together. Sanding this down was very easy and even. There weren't any dips anywhere either.

This was my least favorite project. I remember trying to make it even for so long. After several tries, I decided to just pull it off and hopefully make it look better by sanding it. I probably spent at least half a class period before I realized I was wasting my time. The inside of it even dips down on one side.

This curve on the rim doesn't bother me as much with this one because it still looks symmetrical. The color ended up looking so pretty and glossy. For some reason,  the inside looks like drops of water hit it before being fired. The bottom could have been sanded more nicely though. 

I made this tree at the beginning of this semester, but never finished glazing it. It started out with branches, but they dried out very fast and it was too hard to connect the branches to the base without something breaking. I ended up breaking the branches and making a lid to go on top. The lid was sgraffito.

Again, the rim is uneven and it bothers me. Besides that, I loved this one. The color is so pretty and the inside turned out to be somewhat matte.

This was probably in my top three. The glaze colors ended up looking so good together. They look and feel so smooth all around. The only thing that bothers me is how uneven it is around the rim.

I don't really remember the outside being as grey as I planned, but  the darker inside balances it out. As I was sanding it down before being fired for the first time, there were many dips on the outside. I  tried to fill them with glaze, but it would have taken too long for it to actually look the way it should. Overall, I love the way the glaze looks on the inside because it looks so glossy and smooth.

This was my last project I did on the wheel. I had made mostly bowls, so I wanted to try something else for my last. The glazing in the bottom of the plate/bowl turned out more yellow than expected. It could have been because it mixed with the blue. I'm still happy with how it turned out because this shape was more difficult than the regular bowls.

Wheel throwing was my favorite part of the whole year. This was one of my last projects to glaze. The glaze was sort of watered down so once it was fired, the bottom of the inside of the bowl became thick with glaze. The flower like design isn't very noticeable except for around the rim.

Texture Project

This project started off as a tree with branches, but once the clay started to dry out too much, I decided to break them off and turn it into a trunk with a lid. The lid has been under glazed brown and has squiggly lines over it to create a sgraffito look.

Techniques

Slip Trailing: applying slip using a thin tube to dispense fine lines onto leather hard clay

Impressed Texture: molding texture into clay to create a print

Mishima: carving a picture and then using under glaze to fill the lines and scrape the rest off 

Sgraffito: applying glaze to the entire surface and then carving lines to reveal the clay

Sprigging: using molds to apply clay to a flat surface 

Mishima and Sgraffito

Mishima and Sgraffito

            “Sgraffito” means to scratch or mark, while Mishima means to lay slip or underglaze into a mold. In Sgraffito, you are scratching away the clay and in mishima, you are molding slip into a shape. Mishima can be used for complex shapes that must be made several times. In my opinion, sgraffito is a way to incorporate your own design.

Sgraffito	Mishima
·         Scratching and taking away ·         A decorating technique done by applying layers of colors to leather hard pottery and then scratching off parts of the layers ·         Unfired ·         Scratched to show the underlying colors/parts	·         Add slip to mold (or make your own mold) ·         Carve the design first and fill with slip or underglaze ·         Allows for extremely fine, intricate design work with hard, sharp edges ·         The clay and slip that is used should have fine particles without inclusions