Abby's Art

For my wind-chime I wanted to make it simple and complex at the same time. To accomplish this I make small squares and balls. To make each square unique I stamped them all with different patterns. In order to make my balls I had to put them on rods while I painted them so when I put them in the kiln they would not stick to the bottom. When I did this I had to sacrifice a few balls because they either did not fit, or they got stuck to the rod so I had to break them to get them off. Overall I am happy with how this turned out, and I would like to make another one of these one day.

When you watch people wheel throw it looks pretty easy, and you might think you can make something cool on your first or second try. That is what I thought, and I found out I was very wrong. When wheel throwing, the first thing you have to do is center your clay. The first few times I attempted this I did not know what I was trying to do or how to do it. This simple task took me a while to figure out, but by the my third day of throwing I became pretty good at it. After centering you have to make your blob into a bowl (or something else) by making a hole in the top. This part always started out good for me, but as I stated to try and play with it to get the right shape it would get tricky. In my maroon pot, The swivel design happened by mistake when I messed up on trying to make the pot wider. Also, my elephant earring try was a large pot but when I was trying to fix the shape I broke the whole top half off. My blue pot is a little lopsided, but after the first