May 07 - Early Work (i.e. the stuff that sucks a little bit)

Small cereal bowl; white clay with blue 'fleckners' glaze; 5" diameter, 3" tall
I eat out of this bowl almost every day. I made this in my 2nd class, so it doesnt suck quite as much as the first stuff I made. I like that the glaze pools in the ridges made when it was thrown on the wheel


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Large cereal bowl; White clay, blue and forest green semi-transparent glaze; 7" diameter, 2.5" tall.
This is one of the first things I made, and is THE first thing I glazed. So it kind of sucks. Actually the bowl is pretty nice, but the glaze was awful... it was originally light blue with a brown design in the middle, but it looked AWFUL so I put a forest green over it. The green and blue combined in a funny way that isnt quite as horrible, so I kept it.



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Crappy blue and black bowl.
I only post this to illustrate how bad my first attempt at the potters wheel (since 10th grade at least) was and how far I've come. The shape sucks. The glaze was so bad I had to re-glaze, and THAT was so bad that I covered most of it in a layer of black glaze in addition. OK now that you have seen it please avert your eyes upwards.