Friday, October 19, 2012

Coil Pot and Glazed Pinch Pot



It's important to wash your hands before touching bisque ware because the oils from anything that has been touched before hand or from sweat can make it so the glaze won't absorb into the clay, same for the dust. Wax resist needs to be applied when dipping into a bucket, and when you dip into the bucket it should only stay in the bucket for about 1.5-3 seconds. You can't brush on bucket paint because it runs.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Coil Pot


Making coils is extremely hard, I have somewhat gotten the hang of making them round but at first they were really rectangular. Making the coils even is probably the hardest part, because they need to be the same thickness and have the same curve. The circle coils are especially hard for this because they need to be folded the same way to be even. The process is just very long, but my pot has mostly matched my silhouette except it is slightly larger because none of the circles to make the floor were the exact right size.