So, you may have wondered why I never wrote about ceramics class. Because I didn't have pictures. Why did I not have pictures? Because it takes FOREVER to get stuff back. These are the three items that I lovingly handcrafted during the first two classes in JANUARY. Granted, I hadn't been to class in the last three weeks and they may have been waiting for me there the whole time. The teacher waits until he gets a full kiln to fire, then you have to glaze it and wait until he gets another full kiln to fire. I don't mean to say that he should use all that electricity just so I can get my crappy bowls faster, but it is sort of anticlimactic after two months.
I did glaze some things last night that are much better-constructed than these works of art, and I will post pictures of them in November when they're out of the kiln.
I made a vase for my mom on the wheel on the night she had surgery and carved "To: Mom Love, Rachel 2008 [heart]" on the inside. It was supposed to be a Mother's Day or birthday gift. Well, guess what? My teacher turned one of the coils in the kiln to the wrong temperature and blew the bottom off of it. But I glazed it anyway. I could put fake flowers in it, or I could make a little plate base for it next week.
All of this is basically meant to say, "ceramics...meh."
Writing and photography 4 eva!
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