Ceramics

For ceramics, we were required to make two pieces, one a figure, and the other a pinch pot. One was also to be burnished. For the figure I chose to do a little fox. this was done simply by using basic handbuilding techniques and slipping and scoring. For the pinch pot, I just rolled a lump of clay into a ball and pushed my thumb into it. I than began squeezing and pinching around the edges to create a finsihed piece. Once the pinch pot was leather hard, I burnished the edge using a spoon. Once everything dried we fired them doing the sawdust method. You take a trashcan fill it with sawdust, put the pieces in, fill it with newspaper, and light it. you leave a lid over the trashcan with a little room for smoke to exit and let it burn for a few days. Below are the finished product.





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