In the ceramics class I'm taking, so far we've been working on pinch pots. The first project was to create pinch pot bowl with a 5 inch diameter. I made two - one a bit more risky (but with a more interesting form!) and another a bit more conservative. I trimmed the risky one a bit too much to hit 5 inches so it was good I had the backup. The second project joined 2 pinch pots together capturing air in the middle. From there we manipulated them and made organic forms. One I scored and stained and had fired to cone 6. And the finally one I applied a petal like surface finish using a lot of tiny balls of clay and we did a raku firing.

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