Advance Ceramics: Day 3

Today students were very busy.  Their slab vessels were fired and the students had to focus on glazing or staining their projects.  At the beginning of class Ms. Wager reviewed what the students had to do in terms of glazing or staining: rinse off the piece under water (to remove access dust particles), rinse brushes before and after using, apply three coats of glaze or stain and apply coats after the prior one dries.  After the students glazed their pieces they proceeded to work on their clay boxes.  Many of the students are still working on sketches and thinking of ideas.

 To the left are a few of the students' vessel that are in the process of becoming Bone Dry (the stage when clay completely dries out and then is placed in the kiln for firing. The pieces are extremely fragile in this specific stage--don't touch them because they could snap and break!)

I walked around the room and asked the students about their sketches and ideas.  I was curious to know their thought and creation process with their projects.  The students seemed to really enjoy the personal one-on-one time that I shared with them.  I definitely enjoyed speaking with the students because I admired their diversity and outrageously crazy ideas.

To the right is a picture of a bird's eye view of the vessels in the kiln waiting for their firing.