Coil pot

The assignment was to make a coil pot that was a perfect cylinder and had thick walls so that we could carve into it. I started with a black of clay which I cut into smaller pieces which I then rolled out with my hands into fairly thick, longs strands. I then scratched and slipped them onto a base and continued to wrap them around moving upward until it was the desired size. As I went along I had to smooth the sides by used the serrated rib to blend together the cracks of the coils, then I used the smooth rib to make the pot even and smooth. Once I had done that I used a citcle carving tool to take small chanks out of a section, then an oval carving tool to take lobger stips out of the lower part if the put. I then used a needle tool to carve small flowers into the top half of my pot. After that I fired, glazed, and fired it again. 

I liked the idea of the deeper carves in my pot, but once I had done a bunch I realized that it's hard to hold the pot and not quish the imprints so I decided to just do it on the bottom. I wanted the flower carvings to be more accentuate and they were before I glazed them, but I didn't know how much the glaze would fill in the lines I made. I glazed it in two different colors because i wanted to seperate the more intensely carved designs from the more simplistic flowers. 

Overall I think it came out well, I lobe the color of the glaze at the bottom, it has some really cool greens and reds that really show in the grooves of the pot. I wish that the flower carvings showed more, I didn't realize how much the glaze would fill them in.