3-12-09

I glazed my bird house in royal blue. When I put my bird house in the glaze, I have to tilt it to let all the extra glaze pour out. Now that I have done that I take a wet sponge and wipe the glaze off the bottom. The reason I have to wipe the bottom of is because the glaze will melt and cause the bird house to stick in the kile. To prevent that you wipe the bottom off. After I finish glazing I set it aside to dry.

2-12-09

After I made my bird house, I started on a plater. I started my plater with a round piece of clay, by rolling it out with the turn table and putting a design on the clay. After I roll it out and put a design on the clay, I dry the clay so it can hold its shape. When I dry the clay, I make sure that its not sticky because if its sticky then the clay won't be hard enough to hold shape. Now that the clay is hard enough to make a shape. I use four fingers on my right hand and push up and the clay and use my index and my middle finger to push down. After I go around the whole piece, it looks like waves all around it. Now that I am finish, I just put it on the shelf to let dry so the clay can go into the kettle.

3-5-09

Today I glazed the pieces of pottery that was fired and ready to be glazed. When I say fired, I mean put into a kettle for 12 hours and then cooled for 24 hours. I glazed my bird house royal blue and my first coil pot blue and purple.