I forgot to actually publish this yesterday...
Today was the first day that I made pieces for my table setting. I made four dinner plates, which is the amount that I want to end up with. I think tomorrow I’ll need to make maybe two more so that I have back-ups just in case something goes awry. I also made the first two salad plates. I feel really good because only one of the pieces I’ve thrown so far has “failed.” And I was able to quickly wedge the clay back up and make a new plate. Wedging is when you take the clay and knead it to get rid of all the air bubbles. It’s definitely not my strong suit, but I think I’m getting better at it because porcelain is super susceptible to air bubbles so I have to wedge a lot. I’m glad it’s been successful from the start because I was really worried that throwing identical pieces in porcelain was going to be out of my skill set. It’s been really kind of easy, though, to get pieces that look the same. I measured the diameters of the plates and compared them, and they’re totally starting to look like a set. The dinner plates are eleven inches in diameter with a seven and a half inch inner ring. Like the part where the ridge is. The salad plates are nine inches and the diameter of their inner ring is also about seven and a half inches. I think that’s probably a good ratio. It’s kind of annoying because there are so many plates and there’s so little shelf space. I have something like a pyramid of them. It’s supported by little kiln bricks. I’m really excited to get the plates bisqued so that I can start doing the blind contour drawings on them. I’m sad about having to drop my art class, though I totally need the time, so I’m going to do drawings of my friends on the other side of the studio. I just ordered some high-fire underglazes that have different colors, so I think I might be able to use those instead of just black. Maybe I’ll do all the dinner plates one color and all the salad plates another and all the bowls, and everything, all different colors. I was thinking about doing that or maybe taking these things called mason stains which are like colored powders and adding just little splotches of colors to the pieces to sort of accent the contour drawings.
Today was the first day that I made pieces for my table setting. I made four dinner plates, which is the amount that I want to end up with. I think tomorrow I’ll need to make maybe two more so that I have back-ups just in case something goes awry. I also made the first two salad plates. I feel really good because only one of the pieces I’ve thrown so far has “failed.” And I was able to quickly wedge the clay back up and make a new plate. Wedging is when you take the clay and knead it to get rid of all the air bubbles. It’s definitely not my strong suit, but I think I’m getting better at it because porcelain is super susceptible to air bubbles so I have to wedge a lot. I’m glad it’s been successful from the start because I was really worried that throwing identical pieces in porcelain was going to be out of my skill set. It’s been really kind of easy, though, to get pieces that look the same. I measured the diameters of the plates and compared them, and they’re totally starting to look like a set. The dinner plates are eleven inches in diameter with a seven and a half inch inner ring. Like the part where the ridge is. The salad plates are nine inches and the diameter of their inner ring is also about seven and a half inches. I think that’s probably a good ratio. It’s kind of annoying because there are so many plates and there’s so little shelf space. I have something like a pyramid of them. It’s supported by little kiln bricks. I’m really excited to get the plates bisqued so that I can start doing the blind contour drawings on them. I’m sad about having to drop my art class, though I totally need the time, so I’m going to do drawings of my friends on the other side of the studio. I just ordered some high-fire underglazes that have different colors, so I think I might be able to use those instead of just black. Maybe I’ll do all the dinner plates one color and all the salad plates another and all the bowls, and everything, all different colors. I was thinking about doing that or maybe taking these things called mason stains which are like colored powders and adding just little splotches of colors to the pieces to sort of accent the contour drawings.
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