This is my clay box, a firm slab. Some new techniques would be letting it dry over night, and then adding design in after, cutting the sides at a 45 degree angle so that they met together. I found the overall clay project easy, all of mine are fairly complex until I got to this "box". I couldn't think of any ideas, and I had cut my sides so short that I couldn't do the underwater design that I wanted originally. Instead I figure, that when I glaze it I can paint it different shades of blue, with white tips.
Here's the finished box, most of the color either came off or didn't show up. I didn't figure this would look all that great considering I was hurry to paint it, I'm just glad that the blue stayed on top so it has at least a little color. I took the picture of the side that had most color, it was supposed to be different shades of blue and greens but I didn't put enough on of each color.