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For this historically inspired piece, I chose to do a sword in a stone, like the one from the tale of King Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone. I made the sword and stone separately, and attached them by slipping and scoring them together. I think that I could have taken a little more time with this project, especially with the glazing process, since it didn't come out of the kiln the way I had hoped.
I never ended up firing this piece, but I like the way it looks as is. I carved out a general shape from a brick of soft greenware, then let it dry up for a couple days until is was leather-hard. This way, it made it easier to carve into the piece and make smaller details. It is much more satisfying carving out a shape from leather-hard clay than it is from greenware. I got the idea to do a small fox figurine from a movie.
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For the "HUNNY" pot, I got my inspiration from Whinnie the Pooh. I made a pinch pot with a lid, then added the handle on the lid. I smoothed everything out and used a signing tool to write on the outside. After firing it once, I glazed the outside and the lid with brown, and the inside and the writing with yellow. I wanted it to look like there was actual honey dripping over the edge, so I put yellow over the top of the brown glaze at the top of the pot.
This is supposed to be a relief tile, but I didn't realize that it had to be 3D, so I ended up basically making a coaster. To make it, I used the slab roller and cut out a square from the slab. Then, I painted the flower with underglaze, adding multiple layers to make sure that there were no spots on the piece that were showing the white clay underneath. After I fired it, I put clear glaze on it and put it back in the kiln.
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For this piece, I combined a few projects in one. I made the mug out of coils, with a spiral coil at the base. Then, I smoothed out the outside and added underglaze. Then, I did a sgrafifto design on the outside of flower pedals and leaves. After I fired it once, I put clear glaze on it and fired it again.
I used the slab roller to make a large slab, then cut out a section of it to make into a vase, then cut triangles out of it and made it into a dart mug. After that, I added the handle and fired it. After it was fired once, I put a dark purple glaze on it.
The first time I tried to make this monster, I scrapped it when it was still greenware because it kept deforming. My second attempt, I got a basic shape down and let it dry out a bit so I could carve the specific details into it. Then, I added the horns and the wings and fired it. When I found out that it didn't blow up, I put the glaze on. I tried to make it look as close to the painting as possible, since it isn't going to be mine. I forgot to add the ears though, but I think that would have been pretty difficult and tedious.