This is me, actually making something on a pottery wheel! Today's art class was all about throwing clay. My instructor, Carla, gave us a full demo and then let us get to work. This is her jam so she was able to whip up a beautiful little bowl in minutes. There are so many important details to working with clay. From centering and shaping to wheel speed and moisture levels. It's much harder than it looks but so relaxing. I could just watch someone else work for hours. Seriously, google it. It's mesmerizing.
We were each given three pieces of clay to work with and it became quite obvious why. My first piece was my favourite but I made my hole too deep so the bottom was too thin to keep it together. Boo. I was just playing around with making different shapes for my next two and ensuring they weren't too deep. We only had a couple of hours to work today but I was able to make two vessels for the keeping of things. I was cutting it close to the end of class so you can see my second has some sort of button in the middle I didn't get to smooth out.
I had been looking forward to today all week. Pottery is something I've always wanted to try and I loved it more than I thought. I'm thinking my next session will be a full pottery class to have more time to develop my skills.
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