Pottery

For about three months now I've been going to hang out with a friend on Friday nights at a local pottery studio. Oh my wild party life.

I've never done pottery before in my life, but it's fun. A lot like being a kid playing with playdough. I always loved playdough. My first two pieces were trays. You cut a chunk of clay out of a block of clay and roll it flat through a press. Then you mold the clay into a form. On my pieces, I stamped designs. After they dried, and when I could finally make it back to the studio, I painted each piece. I left them to be fired. I do wonder if the glaze I used gives it the high gloss finish just by being fired. You would never know to look at the unfired item to know what the finished product will look like. Unfired they are dull, porous, and not glossy at all. Here is my very first piece.