Pinch Pots

Creating a Basic Pinch Pot

3) expand the hole

1) create a sphere

2) make a hole

before bisc firing
These are the results after I created two pinch pots, I scratched and slipped the eyes on, and the tong for the blobby face. I pinched between thumb and forefinger the edge of the pinch pot for the second.

end result

I used stains, and the bright blue didn't stick that well. 

facad

This project was to build an entrance way of a structure.

I built an entrance way to a small alley way that I remember from when I was a kid in Leighton Buzzard, UK.
   I also was looking to build some brick walls. This was because I worked for a summer replacing the groit in a stone wall. It would make ex

During the construction I only attached the archway bricks by scratching, without slip. The roof I built a support to hold it up, because I wasn't thinking I attached. 

after the bisc firing

after the "glaze firing incident"

grand parents stuff

Grand father's "old man"

Grand mother's "man & dog" 

Slab Pieces

These projects where assigned to have us experiment with all forms of attachment, merging, scraffito, and glazes. 

  Here are a few pictures of a braided square being etched and joined together. As a note, the slip (watery clay) has slathered on to the surfaces after the third picture.

 

Introduction

This is a log book of all the thoughts and processes that have gone into each project in AE309, an art education course at UVic. I've done a bit of pottery in the past, during early high school. Here are some examples of pieces I created in 1995.

as a note, this is also an excuse to play with blogger, so I'm able to have a bit more insight when helping my parents on their blog: http://candmwanderings.blogspot.com/