So I finished all my pottery pieces in December and they were done firing by early January… and yes it’s March and I haven’t shared the results yet! Well, here I am!
My First Three Pieces
Glazed and ready for the final kiln
And finally complete!
Next came this pair of honey pots
And later a trio of bowls
which I carefully trimmed when they were exactly “leather-hard”…
But sadly, I lost this one.
It was separated from the others while drying, and I forgot to go searching for it. My best bowl 🙁
Oh well, here’s another.
Which I trimmed a bit, just to clean it up. But it wasn’t made to be a bowl so nothing fancy.
The last three pieces glazed! Just one ugly smear from a poor glazing decision. (I knew I felt like I was missing something. I was.)
Ta da! The final set!
Bottoms of bowls are so much prettier than bottoms of cylinders… but I found them much much more difficult to make!
The tallest piece turned out *almost* as big as a coffee mug.
That was a lot of work! I had no idea pottery was such a lengthy, complicated, time-sensitive process. I’m happy with the products, but more than that, I’m very glad to have tried my hand at learning something entirely new. It was an experience full of excitement, concentration, frustration, celebration, disappointment, pleasant surprises… much more than I could have expected. Thanks to the staff at Claytek and my fellow classmates for an interesting learning journey. Onward to the next sabbatical-fueled adventure!
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