I wanted my coil pot to be something more than just the typical 30-cm-tower-of-coils, but I didn’t want to go with an extremely intricate design either. I wanted it to stand out without driving the perfectionist side of me crazy, and I wanted a design that would go well with the concept of using coils.
I don’t particularly like to go with the cliché--in fact, I usually take quite the effort to avoid it--but a coil pot made to look like an owl seemed perfect. It would go well with the use of coils (most noticeably for the eyes) and it wouldn’t be too elaborate. Though it did take longer than I thought it would, this pot pretty much went according to what I’d planned--generally.
My coil pot doesn’t have fancy coils in the middle facing in all sorts of different directions in different shapes. I wanted to go with a simpler design so that it wouldn’t be overwhelming and so that the viewer’s focus would be on what the pot what supposed to resemble: an owl. In the process of making the owl, I’d forgotten to add feet and added ears as a last minute addition to give the pot a little height.
This time, everything went pretty much according to plan, other than the glaze. I used Iron Lustre, which was originally supposed to be a glaze with a much bluer hue. Unfortunately, being as impossible to predict as glaze tends to be(more so for beginners, I’m assuming), the bluish hue decided to show up in the seams, where no one could see it. I ended up with a warm brown. In the end, though, it ended up not looking so bad, and I was pretty much happy with the result.
I don’t particularly like to go with the cliché--in fact, I usually take quite the effort to avoid it--but a coil pot made to look like an owl seemed perfect. It would go well with the use of coils (most noticeably for the eyes) and it wouldn’t be too elaborate. Though it did take longer than I thought it would, this pot pretty much went according to what I’d planned--generally.
My coil pot doesn’t have fancy coils in the middle facing in all sorts of different directions in different shapes. I wanted to go with a simpler design so that it wouldn’t be overwhelming and so that the viewer’s focus would be on what the pot what supposed to resemble: an owl. In the process of making the owl, I’d forgotten to add feet and added ears as a last minute addition to give the pot a little height.
This time, everything went pretty much according to plan, other than the glaze. I used Iron Lustre, which was originally supposed to be a glaze with a much bluer hue. Unfortunately, being as impossible to predict as glaze tends to be(more so for beginners, I’m assuming), the bluish hue decided to show up in the seams, where no one could see it. I ended up with a warm brown. In the end, though, it ended up not looking so bad, and I was pretty much happy with the result.