Ceramics Yr 10
As an elective this semester I have chosen to complete yr 9/10 ceramics, this has been a challenging and exciting class to take. Our main goal of the course was to create a surreal tea pot. The class went through multiple techniques, designs and even had a ceramic expert, Fluer Schell come in to discuss our designs and show the class how to make a basic tea pot and cup.
For my own tea pot, I went for a pot with a face and feet. I chose this because at the time of making designs in the visual diary, I was ‘obsessed’ with drawing silly faces on all of my school work and chose to make a real life face on my pot.
Before making the start of the pot, I had the goal of making a tea pot with 2 faces, one angry and the other cheery. However as I was making the eyes for the 1st face, I realized that the clay would be to heavy for the pot to not sink, so I adapted and stuck to 1.
During the making of the pot, I attempted the coil method as we were shown, this worked well until I forgot to bring the ‘coil’ inward to close the pot earlier. This lead to my pot being just a little bit bigger than the expectations.
Towards the end of the course however, my pot started cracking from the top all the way to the middle of the inside of the pot, unfortunately this was unfixable and that was the end of the face pot life.
I was very grateful for this opportunity and it was a different experience that I was glad to be apart of.