Coil Construction

                My first coil construction was made to symbolize a mother butterfly and tiny butterflies always staying by her side. The first thing I did was construct the bottom piece with a slab. I drew out the shape I wanted to construct, and then I cut it out with the metal tool. After that, I made coils by hand and kept putting them on top of each other using slip. As I went higher, the coils got smaller. This is because I wanted the top to be smaller than the base. When I was happy with the height, I started to blend the inside and out with the circular edge of the wooden tool. Then I decided that I wanted to make
tiny butterflies. First I made a slab using the slab machine then I cut out variations of butterfly sizes. When I was done with how much butterflies I wanted, I cut each butterfly in the middle to make it have a 3-D effect. Then I started pasting them on my coil construction using slip on the surface and on the butterfly pieces. I did this with all the butterflies, then I was done. All I had to do was correct any bumps
on my final piece.

This is my favorite piece out of everything I created. The way I glazed this piece was using brushes. For the base of the piece I used one coat of blue green. For the butterflies I used a combination of yellow, peach, misty blue, and maroon. It came out perfect. And ofcourse I waxed the bottom.

Double Pinch Pot

        After learning how to construct a pinch pot, we later learned how to put two pieces together. When I finished making both pinch pots alike, I put them together by brushing on slip with a toothbrush on both tops of the pots then I placed them together by squeezing each tip so that it is equally aligned. Next, I used a wooden tool to blend the outside so that the pieces will go together. After I was done with that, I used my fingers along with water to make the pinch pots tips vanish so that it will look like one piece. To blend the insides, I opened the top piece from its foot with a metal tool and used my hands to open it wide enough so that I could blend the insides. To decorate the piece I constructed tiny coils and place them on the piece by putting slip on both the pot and the coils. I made the coils on the piece to symbolize vines and flowers. Some of the flowers look like leaves because it was a little tricky to make them big enough. When I was finished I made the surfaces smooth.





The technique I used to glaze this piece was the dipping and pouring. First I waxed the foot of the piece. Then I used basic white to pour inside then I shook it and spilled the leftovers back in the container. Next I dip the whole piece in the glaze then immediately wiped off the parts where I wanted to glaze it a different color. For the flowers I used magenta and the vines I used satin green. I glazed these using a brush.