Our pottery unit brought us to Water Works where we worked with Brent Smith to make some pottery pieces. We started with a tutorial on how everything works and how to use certain tools we needed like the spin wheel and the wire to cut it. He also showed us a few tips he had learned from doing pottery for so long, in the end, I made a functional bowl and learned some professional tips on how to continue expanding my skills in pottery. 

I made a small bowl in hopes I could use it as a big coffee cup, I was aiming for a practical use object when I started the project. It was glazed in the color of my choosing and then fired in a kiln to get the final color and texture. 

Sculpting clay required lots of motivation and problem-solving abilities.  I was attempting to make a bowl that I could use but faced problems because I had to try again and again to get the right shape and texture of the clay. It was a very back-and-forth issue that you had to deal with when making clay sculptures and being able to think quickly on your feet and learning from failure was something you had to have mastered.