So recently I've spent some time in pottery class (the wheel throwing kind) - and today I picked up the ones that I had finished.
I'm quite happy! They're very much beginner pieces, but they're MINE, and I had experimented a bit with the glazes and the result was surprising to me!
I was expecting my brushed glaze (the two in front) to be much messier, but it's actually okay (I did miss a spot in the inner rounded bowl. Oh well.) The dark one is also much darker than I expected (it's hard to say it's not black), but I still like it (it's shiny!). The light blue in the back right corner was "dipping the whole thing in glaze and get it out"; it's pretty clean but there's some dripping patterns that I would have preferred not to have. And I knew I had messed up the inner glaze of the back left corner (the glaze didn't reach the rim), and it's indeed not very precise.
I was expecting to prefer the dipped ones still, because I was expecting them to be more uniform, and I find myself liking the hand painted ones better! it requires more practice for sure, though.
I went for another class this morning, and we worked on getting higher/larger pieces - I'll only be firing one of these (the rest ended in the reclaimed clay bucket), but it was fascinating how much larger it's possible to go from... well, basically the same amount of clay (~400g) as these.
I'm having fun!
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