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Leather Hard - Clay which has dried sufficiently to be stiff, but is still damp enough to be joined to other pieces. - Bone Dry - Clay that is completely dried but not yet fired. Clay forms are most fragile at this stage. - It important to connect slab work and trim pottery on the wheel when the clay is leather hard so that the clay keeps its shape and doesn't fall apart.

Glaze 2

For my pinch pot I used a squeeze bottle to apply bright caribbean to the designs and then dipped the whole pot in seaspray and then metallic green. The bright caribbean did not show through the other glazes very well. Next time I will make sure that my glazes are light enough to show the colors underneath.

Bisque Ware

With Bisque Ware it is important to wash your hands so that the oils on your skin don't get on the piece and cause the glaze to not stick to the pot. It is also important to wipe the dust off so the glaze can be absorbed. When glazing you should apply wax resist when you are dipping the piece in bucket glaze. You should dip the pot for almost two seconds. You cannot brush on bucket glaze because not all of the minerals would be spread evenly on your piece and the color would be messed up.

Coil Pot

I am doing okay with my coil pot. It is hard to make the coils uniformly even and the spirals tend to fall over a little bit. My pot is matching up pretty well with the silhouette. It is a little skinnier at the bottom because there wasn't a circle stencil the exact size as my drawing. I also decided to spread my coils out a little bit more than I had originally intended.

Mrs.Wagoner

I admire my friends mom Mrs.Wagoner. She does so many things and doesn't go crazy. She has four children who all do after school activities. She drives them everywhere, hosts her sons DI team, goes to her kids games, works, and takes care of her house. I admire the fact that Mrs.Wagoner can organize her life to be able to do so many awesome things.

Pinch Pot:Pot Take Two

My pinch pot ended up a little differently then I imagined. I was just going to put straight lines for my designs but i messed up on one of my stars and it made the line thicker. I liked that better so I made all of my stars a little wider. I also used a trimming tool to make my wavy lines wider. If I could change anything now I would smooth the inside better. My clay had dried a little and I didn't make my coil wide enough so it was hard to smooth the inside of my pot. Even though it isn't visible I would like the inside to still look pretty.

Pinch Pot: Pot

Slipping and scoring is scratching the surface of clay that you are going to and then putting a mix of clay and water called slip on the clay. This is important so that the clay fits exactly and stays together. If you did not slip and score, the clay would stay together while it was wet but it would fall apart when it dried.
I had to work hard to make my pot symmetrical. I had to hit it repeatedly with paddle in areas that were not flat or to high.