Coil Construction Part 1

Coil Construction Pt. 1 (Research, Design and Refine)
This is the research, design, and refine portion of your project.  This blog will help guide your research of the forms you wish to pursue.  You may use any culture with a strong ceramic history.  This guide is essential to creating your form.
Standards assessed: Creativity, Manipulation of materials, Cultural competence and connections.
Reference Research
Insert three images of forms you want to pursue along with a corresponding sketch.  The sketch should have an undulated form with a foot, body, neck and lip.
Sample Image	Sample Description Region: Amlash, Iran Period: 9th-8th Cent. B.C. Purpose/Function: Pitcher with handle Used for wine	Sample Sketch:
Image 1	Description Region: Korea Period: Goryeo Dynasty, (918–1392 CE) Purpose/Function: Melon-shaped wine ewer	Sketch:
Image 2	Description Region: Ottoman, Turkey Period: 19th century Purpose/Function: Household storage	Sketch:
Image 3	Description Region: Indo-Persian influence in Kashmiri, North India Period: 13th century Purpose/Function: Storage and decor	Sketch:
Glaze Research
Links to the high fire glazes we will be using. Celadons https://www.amaco.com/t/glazes-and-underglazes/high-fire/celadons Potters Choice https://www.amaco.com/t/glazes-and-underglazes/high-fire/potters-choice
Glaze Sample 1	Glaze Sample 2	Glaze Sample 3
Glaze Name and Series	Glaze Name and Series	Glaze Name and Series
Series: Potter's Choice Color: Indigo Float	Series: Potter's Choice Color: Frosted Turquoise	Series: Celadon Color: Aqua
Describe the glaze tendencies and why you think so.   Is it opaque, translucent, or somewhere in between (semi-opaque)
This glaze would be more translucent because it has a shinier and glossy finish.	This glaze would be more opaque because the color shown is more solid with a smooth and satiny surface.	This glaze would be more translucent because the color of the clay can still be seen through some of the areas that have less detail.
Are these glaze ideal for works with detail or plain surfaces? Explain why.
This glaze would probably work better with plain because the colors don't really pull through on some of the textures or details.	This glaze would probably work better with plain surfaces, however it might also work for details because it gets darker as edges are highlighted.	This glaze would probably work better with detail because the deep, dark green color pulls through in some edges and textural shapes.

Slab Construction

Slab Construction
Construction
Reflection:   Describe what you enjoyed about the construction: Currently, ceramics has been a really therapeutic experience and it is a class that I look forward to going to every time. I enjoyed just being able to construct something hands-on, with less thinking and more focus and doing. It was enjoyable just being able to create something three-dimensional out of a piece of clay, and it gave me so much satisfaction and joy after I finished putting all the sides together, finally forming my 'box'. Describe what you found difficult or needed more instruction: The hardest part of the construction process for me was putting the sides together for the body of my piece after slipping-and-scoring. Because the sides of my piece had to curve inwards for the whole piece to come together, it was difficult trying to keep it as symmetrical as possible. The hole on the top of my 'cube', if done well, should have formed a square shape, but it ended up looking more like a parallelogram. I tried to shift the sides around slowly to fix it, but I think this caused a few cracks on the sides of my piece after it dried stone-hard. What do you think about the final outcome of your construction: The final outcome was definitely not what I had planned the very first time I brainstormed, so I sort of improvised on what I wanted my final piece to look like along the way of constructing it together piece by piece. Overall, I'm pretty happy with how the final outcome of my construction turned out. It could have been constructed better, but as a first project, it was definitely a good starting point to understand how to handle clay and the areas that I need to work on to improve my work.
Glaze Record and Technique
Glazes and Underglazes used: Amaco Opalescent Fushia, Amaco Opalescent White Clover,  Rose Underglaze Technique: For the body of my piece, I used a 'rose' underglaze and applied an opalescent 'white clover' over the rose. For the lid, I used an opalescent Fushia over the regular clay texture so that the results will hopefully be a plain-white under the Fushia.
Pre Fire Glaze Photo	Post Fire Glaze Photo
Final Reflection
Describe the overall final result of your piece. The final result of my piece has a square base with sides that curve inwards, forming a smaller square for the hole of my 'box'. To make the piece more interesting, I was inspired by a pineapple shape to create a lid that looked like the leaves of the fruit itself. The base of my piece has a light-pink color with a darker shade of pink outlining the edges of the textural shapes. What was your biggest surprise? My biggest post-firing surprise was the body's final over-glaze color. What I imagined my piece to look like before putting it in the kiln was for the over-glaze color of my piece's body to be mostly white from using the opalescent 'white clover' glaze with dark pink outlining the edges of the piece from using the 'rose' underglaze. However, because the 'rose' underglaze has a much darker shade than the plain-white overglaze, the colors sort of mixed together and caused the white to turn into another shade of pink, just slightly lighter than the color of the underglaze. Even though it didn't turn out the way I expected it to be, I'm still satisfied with the colors that showed up in the final results. What would you change for your construction technique? If I could change my construction technique, I would have done the slip-and-scoring a lot more carefully. Since I slightly shifted the sides of my piece to make it look more symmetrical after I slipped and scored, it caused a few cracks to form on the edges of where the two sides come together. I was worried that the cracks might cause the entire structure to fall apart in the kiln, but thankfully, it came out in one piece. What would you change for your glazing technique? If I could change my glazing technique, I might have picked out a more different and contrasting glaze color for the lid so that it doesn't look too similar to the color of the base of my piece. Because the base didn't turn out as white as I thought it would be, the pink colors of the lid and the base now look really similar to one another.