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Last studio night for the winter session

Yesterday was the last studio night for the winter session. Time really flies, it seems like the session had only started a few weeks ago. We won't start back again until mid-April, I guess I should use this time to come up with more ideas. Lately, I've been trying to use different techniques to decorate my pots. Last year, it was mostly the 3-colour collections. And after reading Robin Hopper's Making Marks, I came up with some more ideas. I'd tried them on a couple of my pots. The flower pot was sliced with a serrated knife (I meant to use a cheese slicer, but I didn't have one). It's made from mid-porcelain clay and glazed with Randy's red. The 2 small bowls were made out of mid-cal 0 clay and glazed with Randy's red and sponged on black glaze. Unfortunately, the black was probably too thin and doesn't really show.

Trimming...

Out of the 3 major steps (throwing, trimming and glazing) of making a pot, I've concluded trimming takes the most time! I took whole 3 hours of studio time to trim 5 pots. No time to make anything new or glaze anything. Well, I just have to wait until next week then. Only 3 times left for this session, time just flies... powered by performancing firefox