Sgraffito Feather
For this piece, I started off with a slab upon which I roughly sketched a feather. From that point, I carefully carved the feather just enough so that the center ridge of the quil is raised with an indentation around it while the edges of the feather are at the same height as the center ridge. I then painted the feather with several layers of black underglaze. The underglaze did not want to dry for a while so for a few classes I worked on other projects. Once the underglaze finally dried, I began to carve the piece using techniques that I use with my wood carving tools when I'm carving. When that was finished I got the piece fired, coated it in clear glaze, and got it fired again. What went well with this piece was the colors and the design as well as the shape. Although it took the underglaze a while to dry it came out very well. The design is something that I particularly like because the different patterns of dots and lines are ones that I have used in drawing on my hand in both henna and pen ever since middle school. If I were to redo this piece I would likely make it a little thicker because it is quite fragile and I would also try and be more careful when carveing the piece so as to not smudge the paint again.
Coil Moon and slab built piece with slump mold
For this piece, I started out by using a slab and a plate for a slump mold. From that point, I used another plate to trace a cure for the inner edge of the crescent. After that, I used the coil makers out on the patio to make a long thick coil that I used to make the thick outer rim. The excess coil was used to make my sister a coil pot for what is likely going to be a Christmas gift. From that point, I waited to allow the clay to stiffen enough so that the inner details could be done more easily. I then used the handheld coil makers to make small coils that I used to make the different details on the inside. The piece was then fired once and painted grey with white speckles and coated in clear glaze. Due to Micky's suggestion, glass half marbles were placed in the bottom to melt in the kiln. The piece is now in the kiln for the second fire.
Coil pot side project
Relief carving tree
This piece was originally going to be a sleeping dragon. I thought that it was a cool concept but due to my work on other projects, I would not have been able to do the piece to the caliber that I wanted. Therefore I changed my pace and decided to make a tree for my mom instead. This piece is loosely based on the commonly used Tree of Life. The piece also broke part way through its creation because the clay got too dry as I was doing detail carving and so I had to make last-minute adjustments and it resulted in my taking a broken-off piece of hard clay and gently carveing it into a pendant. What went well was the tree itself came out quite well even though the surrounding part broke. If I were to redo this piece I would have made the slab thicker and been more careful about carving it when it's dry. Regardless of the original piece having broken, the pendant that was made out of one of the broken pieces I believe to have come out well and is quite pretty. This piece is now in the kiln for second fire.
Kid's monster
This piece was finished and turned in.
Darted Piece
This piece is not yet finnished and was made small on purpose so that I could focas on the coil piece I was working on.
