Pinch Pots

Week 1: Open Forms 

using a pinch technique we were told to make at least 4 pots 

those four are:

-really open 
-tall
-bowl
-difference

2 pots had to be made from white clay and the other 2 in red.

I started with the white clay. 

First I rolled it into a ball and I pushed my thumb into the middle of it, then I start to push my thumb towards the side while holding it in my other hand the first pot I decided to make was the bowl I knew that i needed to have all of the sides even. I didn't wanting it being to thin but quite a small bowl.
In the image below my bowl is the one with the wavy rim, I had started off by making it flat but later changed it to wavy.

The next pot I decided to make the really open pot like with the bowl pot I started with a ball of clay but this time it was a little bigger, I put my thumb into the ball and rather that the bowl I had decided that the sides had to be a lot thinner this time so that I could make it so wide.

Before I moved onto the red clay I had to make sure to wash my hands because otherwise the clay would mix in with the other clay. (which doesn't look very nice.)

Like with the previous two pots you start out with the ball of clay in your hands and putting your thumb into the middle of it. I found that working with red clay was a lot more difficult than the white as it is a lot stiffer. 

To create both of the red pots I had to push the clay down rather than out, so then it would become taller. 
The taller bowl with the small opening was quite challenging because I had to try and make it smaller without leaving clumps of clay to make the neck smaller I did a little cut and took out a section of it and then with the left over sides I pushed them together and then smoothed it so it didn't look out of place. I had repeated this three times around the top of the pot.          

Week 2: Closed Forms

Aim to create 3 closed forms that use:

- Additions
- textured surface
- piercing

To create close forms you have to start with two of the same size bits of clay roll them into spheres and like with the open forms you have to push the clay outward to make it into a semi circle.

Once you have done that to both of the spheres you have to slash all the way round the rim of the semi circles and then apply some slip.

Take one in each hand and then gently twist in opposite directions until they form one whole circle, once you feel you have twisted enough, lightly with a wet finger go around the join of the two semi circles and smooth it up and down all the way around so there is no more join left and it becomes one form. 

Repeat this several times, bearing in mind that if you want to create a more oblong shape, then when you are pushing the clay outward make sure to keep pushing it till it makes the desired shape.

Here is a picture below of my finished closed form, my favourite thing to do to these forms was to pierce them that is why in all three of them that is what I have done.

Week 3 : Joining closed forms

As we had looked at creating open and closed forms separately, it was now time to make a final piece that consisted of joining 3 closed forms together.

Taking inspiration from the tester pieces I made i created this piece, I feel that together each part of my final piece represent one of my tester pieces. 

My main inspiration was from Pamela Sunday.

Due to the use of piercing.