Spheres

For this assignment, we were asked to create three spheres out of clay and design each one with a different theme. One had to be inspired by nature, one had to be inspired by something man-made, and the last one had to be under-glazed and then carved with any design you choose. First, to make my spheres, I made six pinch pots and slip/scored them together to make three spheres. I perfected them with smoothing tools and my fingers until they were leathery and smooth. For my nature inspired sphere, I made around six butterflies out of clay and slip/scored them onto the sphere in all different directions. I then carved designs into them and used many colors of underglaze. After the bisk fire, I used clear glaze on the nature and scrafito spheres and P 4 glaze on the man-made sphere.