Week 14

Week 14 done and over there is one more week of classes. Everything is slowing down as it is the end of the semester. All I had left to complete was glazing a handful of bowls and three project pieces. My test tiles, grapefruit bowl, and no base project. I glazed those on Wednesday and do not yet know how they have turned out but hoping to see them on Monday. I am worried about my no base not turning out right as it was just a hard project for me to do but I did the best I could with a hard topic for me. The wood fire was canceled for lack of work to put in the firing, so a soda firing was done instead. My test tiles went in this firing, but my bowls did not, I decided to leave those on the cart for a wood fire in the future. Monday, I get to see the results of my projects and it is mandatory cleanup day. Then final crit on the following Monday. Fingers crossed!

Update: everything came out for the most part perfect. My test tiles look good, my no base came out perfect, the first picture is my experiment with frit in the bottom of my bowl, and the glaze turned out beautiful on my grape fruit bowl. The only grip I have is a decent sized crack in the bottom of one of the grapefruit bowls. Outside of that I am excited for crit on Monday! 

Week 13

Week 13.  I did not go to class Monday

but I am ok with that since I have
 very little left and the wet clay cut
off is the next day. I came in for an
hour maybe to finish my no base
and cleaned it up on Wednesday.
We did critiques on Wednesday as
well and got to see some beautiful
pieces. I finished class by glazing
my grapefruit bowl and wading for
wood fire. Then one more week to
glaze and glaze fire all my bowls and

cups. Hopefully everything goes smoothly for the end of the semester.

Week 12

Week 12. There are only 4 weeks left in the semester and I have three assignments to complete. My fantasy function, no base, and test tiles. Class was canceled on Monday but I came in for about 3 hours to try to finish some of these. I did not finish any but did come close to finishing my fantasy function grapefruit bowl and jewelry box. I think I will submit my bowl because so far I like it more than my jewelry box. Wednesday I finished my Fantasy functions and started my no base building. I just need to finish building a few more elements and I will be done with building. I plan to finish this next Monday and glaze next Wednesday if all goes as planed.

Week 11

So far this week has been vastly more productive than last week. It is nice to have been all in on building. I came in early to class for about two hours and busted out bowls for my colander, grapefruit bowl, and the no base thrown vessels. I nearly completed my  grapefruit bowl Sydney suggested a handle and I agree so I just have to add that and I'm done. I finally determined my no base project and I'm stress but excited to see how it turns out. I have the base pieces set up for it which are three thrown cylinders and three slabs that will encase the vessels. After that is all put together the detail work and the work the promotes no base will begin and almost every aspect will have a function. Those are the last of projects and I would like to throw a few more bowls before the end of the semester to try the crystal effect in and that's all I have on my lists to make. Very excited.