I spent the first couple days of the new class working on techniques. For the most part, I understand centering, pulling up the sides, and taking it off of the bat. I haven't tried footing yet though. That would be my next step for this bowl.
But, I'm debating whether I want to try and make a new bowl. Once fired, my bowl will shrink and it already is quite tiny. I already have a really small bowl at home that I made in ceramics club. I'm thinking that after school I'm going to come in and try to make a better bowl. If I'm unable to, I will keep the one I have and foot it.
So I've decided to just keep this bowl for now. It was good practice for footing. I get the general idea but because it was so dry it was probably harder than footing with usually be. I'm not extremely proud of this bowl, but as said before, I'm in ceramics club and have other bowls to make in the actual class. I have plenty of time to work on getting better.
I'll be looking at it again tomorrow, adjusting a few things if possible, and then putting it on the shelves to be fired so I can paint. Depending on the colors available, I'll probably pick some shade of blue or a turquoise color.
So, the bowl I had made was too dried out to do anything more to it or fix it. I worked on creating another one, it was going well. It was probably the best one I've made so far. But it was still a little off center, I went to fix it and it begun to crack a bit so I put a bag over and will see Monday (Feb. 8) if I'm able to fix it.
But, I'm debating whether I want to try and make a new bowl. Once fired, my bowl will shrink and it already is quite tiny. I already have a really small bowl at home that I made in ceramics club. I'm thinking that after school I'm going to come in and try to make a better bowl. If I'm unable to, I will keep the one I have and foot it.
So I've decided to just keep this bowl for now. It was good practice for footing. I get the general idea but because it was so dry it was probably harder than footing with usually be. I'm not extremely proud of this bowl, but as said before, I'm in ceramics club and have other bowls to make in the actual class. I have plenty of time to work on getting better.
I'll be looking at it again tomorrow, adjusting a few things if possible, and then putting it on the shelves to be fired so I can paint. Depending on the colors available, I'll probably pick some shade of blue or a turquoise color.
So, the bowl I had made was too dried out to do anything more to it or fix it. I worked on creating another one, it was going well. It was probably the best one I've made so far. But it was still a little off center, I went to fix it and it begun to crack a bit so I put a bag over and will see Monday (Feb. 8) if I'm able to fix it.
The bowl I had was unable to be fixed so we cut off the top part of it and used what was remaining to make a baby bowl! I think I did a fairly good job at footing on this one. I know it isn't as big as I wanted it to be and will shrink once fired, but it's pretty good. It's nice practice. I'm getting a general idea of how to do this, and am able to make some pretty nice bowls but they usually end up breaking it.