Category: Crafts and Hobbies
I'm taking a pottery class this semester and am absolutely loving it. It's a little difficult at first to get the wheel and your hands working at the correct speed at the same time, but once you master that and figure out how to propperly center a ball of clay everything else comes easier. So far I've made several bowls, mugs and candle holders. Hopefully I'll get some plates and jars done within the next few weeks. If anyone's interested, pottery can be a very blind-friendly art form with a little patience and help in the beginning. Forming and tooling your pieces can be done entirely by feel, and glazing doesn't require much sighted assistance, especially if you're only using one or two colors. Has anyone else studied pottery or ceramics and how did you like it?
Oh wow. Your're using the wheel? We never got to that part in my class in 11th grade, but it was still fun anyways.
Yeah, the whole class revolves around the wheel. It really helps give your bowls and mugs their nice round shapes. You don't use it as much in regular ceramics but I'm not as familiar with that.
Sounds fun. Everything I made turned out to have fingerprints and all that no matter how much I try to smooth it out.
Yeah they had us do that back in skool. It was so much fun.
I'd love to take a pottery class. soundsl ike fun, as I'm one ofthose people who likes working with clay, play dough, and other things llike that.
I did pottery in my school. We even had the wheel. I remember liking it, but not at first.
Yeah they never let us mess around with the wheel. It would have bin really cool.
They always told us we were not advanced enough.
I did about 2 years of pottery at school for my GCSE exam. Now I go to the ceramics club here at RNC on Wednesday nights.
i love working in clay, i've made a couple rather large works. our art teacher said that we had to work on the wheel, which i agree with. i never quite got the hang of it though.
I did some pottery at school where I made a piggy bank a big square pot, another taller thinner pot with a wonky lip, looked something like a vase, I did some pottery in College and made this big wall decoration thing consisting of two faces with snakes entwined round each face with the heads meeting in the middle above the foreheads. Nearly everybody at my Grandparents Bowles club goes for a 4/5 day break to this huge hotel and leisure complex all under one roof in Okehampton, Devon and there's a huge pottery suite there, where I always make a habbit of going every time I'm there. I enjoy their slip moulds, where you just fire the slip in to the mould of your choice when you've strapped it together with these big rubber straps, via a hole in the top, then it takes 24 hours to dry then there's all the painting and glazing and whatnot after the mould has been fired. I made a couple of thumb pots and dishes there, plus a wizzard/magician, complete with robes, hat, cloak and wand, but they ran out of glaze when it was ready for glazing but no matter. Mum keeps some basic pottery supplies here at home, so I must, one of these days, get off of my fat arse and get the wizzard glazed. My favourite piece of all though, is a Chinese dragon. He was glazed and he's sat next to me now as I write. I remember trying to flatten out all the seems created when the mould dried and he's just like something you'd go out and buy in any highstreet gift shops or china shops.
Jen.
I have wanted to do that for a eally long time but don't have money to buy stuff and didn't think about takeing a class and don't know how that woudl work out.
I love pottery, although I haven't made anything or done it in ages. Our school had a wheel, and for my ceramics class, I enjoyed working with it, and making a few bowls.
I do it for art class and like it i shape and glaze all to myself and then my teacher puts it in the kinul early in the morning when it is ready so when i get to class i can finish my work. advice to keep them from getting rough take water and barely put it on. use a finger to gentlely rub water over the rough or sharp spots before put in the kinul