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2ndblog about pottery class

           This Wednesday or October 20thwe have our third assignment/project due in pottery. This project is making cylinders. In my previous written blog we were still making bowls but cylinders are quite a bit more difficult. This is the case because with bowls you only pull the clay three or 4 inches up, but with the cylinders we have to pull the clay about ten or twelve inches up. I wasn’t so good at it at first, but with a lot of practice I was able to get it down in a relatively short amount of time. As of now I have ten of mine made for our project, I just have to trim two of them because they were still to wet last class. Luckily trimming cylinders takes about two minutes, whereas bowls took like fifteen and you could easily trim right through them, destroying them completely.

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Making pottery week 1

Yesterday in pottery we started off by the class showing off our four-matching bowls for the first project. My bowls were not exactly matching, but at least were close. Travis, the professor said I just need to spend a little more time making sure I line up my lengths correctly. After, Travis did the first demo on trimming the bowls. Trimming can be pretty difficult, and he said we should trim through a few because its all our first time doing it. When I started on my first trim, I did end up trimming through it. On my second one however, I was actually one of the only ones who completed one successfully. After trimming I stared on my first serving bowl. Serving bowls can be difficult because we need to use about three times the clay we did with our matching bowls. With the matching we used 2 pounds, but with the serving bowls we use six pounds.