Since we were low on clay as well as time, I decided to combine my food specific and master artist projects. To do this I chose the artist Andy Warhol and made a tomato soup can that you can eat soup out of. I made this using a slab and wrapping it around a cylinder so it was exactly the size I wanted it. For the paper around it I made a thin slab and score and slipped it on. I made a lid and for the handle I made a flower from one of Warhol's other paintings. I added the words to it and fired it. I glazed the inside deep firebrick so I could eat out of it but painted the outside with acryli paint.
For my colored clay set I made two bowls. One bowl I wedged two colors of clay and made it on the wheel. After it was leather hard I trimmed both the outside and inside of the bowl so the colors showed up. For my second bowl I wedged two colors of clay together again and rolled it into a slab. I then put it on a hump mold. They lighter color clay didn't really show up so I tried to add some but it didn't work that well. Once they were fired I glazed them with a clear glaze so the colors showed up.
I made my lidded vessel on the wheel. Since it was my first time making a lid on the wheel I had some help with that. For glaze I used deep olive speckle under textured turquoise. The turquoise didn't really show up but I still like the color. I then put clear glass in the handle of the lid, this melted and was tinted a blueish green.
This plate was made with Nerikomi. They put clay together in a cool design and cut into it making multiple squares with the same design. They then put it on a slab of clay and made it into a plate. We could do this here. These cups were made on the wheel. Two different colors of clay were wedges together and thrown on the wheel. They then probably trimmed around it so the outer layer of slip was gone so you could see the different colors of clay. We could do this here as well.
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