It's Monday! Time for me to pour out my frustrations from my work and talk about pottery. I'm glad I kept to my schedule, it always helps if I have a deadline otherwise things are just floating around in my head. Let's see, what have I done this week... Well, I got a commission to make a large 20 inch vase. The thing about this is that she wants a specific design that I've done in the past, and in order to make her one of these vases I have to make two. One will be wide at the bottom and skinny at the top and the other is wide at the top and skinny at the bottom. Then I cut them both in half and mesh the two different halves together. They've been giving me some resistance, I've come to call them the troublesome twins. Thankfully they're almost done. I think I'm just going to destroy the other vase when I'm finished and reclaim the clay since my larger vases don't sell too well. Another thing that has been a little frustrating are some double walled vessels I've been working on. A vase and a mug, I have to go super slow with these so they won't dry too fast and crack! The one thing about these are that they're too heavy! The mug is about 2 pounds and the vase is around four! I cut out some designs from the outer wall , which I was going to do anyways, but I was also hoping that It would cut off some of the weight. It did kind of help, a little. My next set should be lighter though as I will make sure to do some major trimming. Which I thought I had done a lot on this set but not enough apparently. That's what's happened this week. I'll put up a picture if the double walled vase or mug later tonight. Till next week!
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I really like this piece.
Thank you
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