Coil pot summative

I think that this was my best project overall. First I had to choose an ancient pot from a website. I chose a Greek Geometric poy. The starting process was a bit frustrating though. I restarted a few times because the base wasn't as wide as I wanted it. Once I made the base I just attached more coils. Because the shape of my pot was strange I had to make sure while I was smoothing it, as I got to the middle, I was also putting pressure on the inside to push it out to create a bowl shape. Once the shape was done I just smoothed it out and made sure every coil was firmly attached. My pot also had handles. The hardest part of making the handles was getting them to be symmetric. The pot I chose was most likely thrown and created on a pottery wheel. I didn't have that option. This project focused on making old historic pots using a coil method. My pot turned out a bit lopsided and not at all symmetric but my teacher told me it was great for my first one which I guess I'm proud of.  For the glazing, we were able to choose whatever we wanted to do. I wanted to still resemble my original pot so I glazed the base a sort of light brown color that I mixed using an iron brown and white glaze. The way that I kept it resembling the original is by keeping the design splotches like in the original picture of the pot above. Instead of doing lines like it had I glazed little light blue flowers and kept the background white. I used a glaze pencil to add some more to the design. I wanted it to have a shiny coat but we didn't have any clear shiny glaze left. Overall I think this is my best project product and I am happy with how it turned out. In the future, I would like to try and make my final products a bit more symmetric but I think this was a good start. I wasn't expecting my pot to turn out so white because I used a brown glaze but I am still kinda happy with the results. I do with it was more brown and the flowers were more noticeable.