I finished my world culture pot!! I'm really impressed how fast I was able to pierce the rest of my pot, considering my first flower took me almost a full class to finish. It's not perfect, and definitely not as good as a real Oaxacan pot, but I figure I'm no professional potter, so I shouldn't be discouraged. Piercing is definitely one of the most challenging ceramics skills for me, so I made a few mistakes and my pot starting cracking in some areas (see picture above). I just added some slip and it seems like it will be alright though.
I finished a few things this week. First, I finished making the base of my World Culture Pot. The shape isn't quite how I planned it to be, but I think it looks good enough. It's a bit bigger than I expected. I am going to wait till next class, when it will be leather hard, to start piercing it. I also finished my coil pot! When the glaze came out of the kiln I was a bit surprised by the color of the roof. It was a strange light brown/beige mixture which I wasn't that fond of. I decided to paint over it with some golden acrylic paint, and I think it came out quite nice! It looks even more like a magical fairytale tower now. I probably should have taken a 'before' picture of the roof, but I got so carried away with the acrylic paint that I forgot. Next week I will focus on finishing up my world culture pot by piercing it, and getting my coil pot ready to put on display.
World culture project!! I chose the Oaxacan Mexican pottery. I think they look sooo cool. I'm a little scared by all the piercing but it looks really awesome YAYYY. I have all my research in my sketchbook, so I guess I'll just talk about my plans for the pot I'm going to build. I am going to build the pot out of coils, but smooth the coils out. The shape has to be rotund and spherical. When it gets a bit leather hard, I'm going to pierce out designs!! I want to make simple flowers like in the pictures below. It looks like it will be difficult, but I'm super excited!! |