More old stuff... and excitement!

another thing I made in August - but the good news is that my next pottery class starts this week!!! so that means lots of new stuff to be made + no more social life for me on Monday-Wednesday and Saturday morning :)



Carved Matte Orange Ellipse Vase; Red/white clay mix, bird matte orange glaze with raspberry lightly airbrushed on base; 7" high by 4" wide
This was something I just made randomly one day and thought "oh, this doesnt suck too much, I'll keep it!" When I took it off the wheel i pressed the sides in a little to make it more into an ellipse shape (which, of course, made it a bear to trim. I know thats what you all were thinking when i said "ellipse." ) After I trimmed it I carved out a few lines on it too, just to add some texture. I had just bought a new tool for doing airbrushing and wanted to try putting on a thin, gradated layer of raspberry on top of the bird matte because I had had some success with that in the past. Looks like that layer was too thin (the human-powered airbrush is HARD to use!) and so only a little pink shows through. I'm definitely going to try that technique again.