Pinch Pot

The Pinch Pot was our second project. it was really simple to make and only took a couple of steps. We had to knead the clay first and the shape in to a circle. Afterwards we started to pinch the circle forming it into a small bowl shape. Then once the clay became leather hard we placed a design on it and attached feet. I didn't really like how my project looked because i though it looked really sloppy and the design was boring. Anyways, after it was fired once, i applied a high fire glaze to it. i decided to mix colors, hoping it would be somewhat light blue and light purple. However it did not look anything like i expected, but i guess it looked okay in the end

Wire Sculpture

The wire sculpture was the very first project we made. The materials we used for this project included wires that we bent into shapes along with paper mache to cover the sculpture. i did not really like this project at first, for the wire was hard to bend and it was a little boring. Also, i could not decide what i wanted to make, so i kept changing my project which caused me to take much longer. However once i finish the wire part i began the paper mache. This part of the sculpture was easy, since i was already familiar with this. Finally we painted them and took them home. Overall my final project was my ostrich and i think it turned out pretty good.

Introduction to Ceramics

Welcome to my new ceramics blog. it is October 4th, 2011 and i have just made this blog 5 minutes ago. I was instructed to make a page for my ceramics class this year. On this blog I will be placing pictures of my projects through out the year. This blog will have pictures of my completed sculptures from my ceramics 1-2 class that i am currently taking as a ninth grader.