Liza's Ceramics

This is my new choice project to go along with my theme of contrast and opposites. The glaze is where I hope to make my theme apparent, I'm hoping to glaze with blue stain in the ridges and then clear or maybe white so that the bue shows through. 

Here is the new plate that I threw for my grandma's 70th birthday next week. She asked me to make her something homemade so I figured this would be the perfect gift! I've already footed it and everything and even though the footring is a little wonky because I carved it too thin, I think it will still work out. I've been trying to think of how I'm going to glaze it, maybe a complicated glaze because of the simple shape, but I'm not sure yet. 

This is a project that I am very excited about: My teapot! It's probably the most complicated piece I have ever made but I think it will be worth it. It looks pretty cool. I threw the pot and the lid and then added ribbons of clay to the lid. Then, I pulled the handle and threw the spout and attached both of those. I did this over the course of probably a week but it's hard to tell since we had spring break. I can't wait to see how it will look finished and am starting to think about glaze possibilities. Maybe an all-over color or maybe blue stain with clear over it. We'll see!

Here is my plate after I have glazed it. It has the blue and white glaze just like my mug and my bowl. They are all part of my set of three. Hopefully this plate will be out by tomorrow so I can get the paragraph written and my quarter report in!

This is my plate after it got out of the bisque kiln. It is going to be glazed with white and blue just like my bowl and mug. I really like that glaze and am looking forward to having three of the set. This week I haven't been throwing much because I have been working on my blog and writing paragraphs. I plan on throwing my wheel-altered next.

This is my mug that I showed earlier on the blog and am now in the middle of glazing. It now only has white glaze on it, but I plan to steal Maddy's idea and put blue on top of the white because her's just came out of the kiln with that glaze and it looks awesome so I'm stealing it. I'm planning on glazing all of my three piece with the same color scheme.

This is the second piece of my three-piece set. It's a bowl that I made carvings into with a footing tool. I thought that it was kind of boring, so I made the carvings, but I didn't really think about how my mug (the fist piece of my three piece set) didn't have any carvings in it. So, to fix the problem, I'm going to make the third piece of the set a plate with a lot of carvings in it so it will be a succession of amount of carvings from one piece to the next and glaze them all the same.

This is a mug that I made last week, footed and attached the handle. I'm sort of proud of it I guess, other than the fact that the handle is starting to come off. I'm not sure if that's even fire-able, as it will probably be un-fixable after break is over. Oh well. I'll just make  a new one. I was hoping that it would be the first of a three-piece set of mugs, but maybe mugs aren't my forte :)

This is my wide form that I threw in the third week of class. I don't like this picture so much because it makes to lip look really deformed, but it looks normal in real life. This was pretty easy to throw, and I may go back and make another one just because the shape is kind of boring. Other than that, it's just a really simple form, and is wider than it is tall.

Here is my first wheel-thrown project, my tall form. The picture doesn't really do it much justice, but it is actually much taller than it is wide :). I was gone for the first week of class, so I was a bit behind in making all of my projects, but I'm proud of how this one came out. I haven't thrown in almost a year, and so it felt really nice to get back on the wheel and see that I still had the skills. The base is a bit thin, which is something I definitely need to work on.