Ceramic Survey

My ceramic survey class was definitely my favorite class this semester. It required a lot of outside of class work, but I am pretty proud of most of the things i made. I'll be taking a hand building class next semester too!

We had to make teapots for our final project. We had the option to make them however we wanted, either on the wheel or hand built. I made the body and the spout using the wheel and then i did the lid and the detail designs using hand built techniques. The lid ended up getting stuck in the glaze kiln so i had to get an xacto knife and wedged it apart and unfortunately it flew off, hit the ground, and shattered into a ton of pieces. luckily i was able to glue it back together and you can't really tell it was broken!





Half of the semester was hand building and the second half was wheel throwing. we had to make 6 cups and 6 bowls. I had a really hard time photographing all of them and i didn't want to take a picture of each thing so here is one picture that came out good of two of my bowls.




This is the second assignment. We had to find an object and make it at least 12 times bigger to scale. So here is a giant battery!





This is the second part of this assignment. We had to take something from the original object and abstract it. I decided to use the little connector thing and make a planter.



Here is the first project finished. The glaze on the face was supposed to be a brown/honey color but it turned out black. it actually looks more charcoal/gray in real life.