In the interests of keeping it real, I’m saddened to say that our pots didn’t turn out as well as expected. Unfortunately in a bid to save a bit of money, we chose not to work with porcelain (which is what we’d been using in class) and instead opted for a slightly more forgiving, lower temperature clay. The result was that our pots came out cream instead of white, are quite light in weight, and feel more fragile than the same pots we have in porcelain. Along with that, the glazes acted differently to how they had on porcelain and none really turned out how we’d hoped.
But that’s life right! It happens, and now we know not to work with anything other than porcelain next time :) At least for slip casting anyway. We did manage to get a couple of good ones out of it though.. showen by the first 3 photos. We’ll call the rest ‘learning experiences’..
And now for the not so goods:
One plus of using the cheaper clay was that the pots didn’t shrink as much as the porcelain did.. if you’re interested (and even if you’re not) here’s an example: Clay left, porcelain right.
