Day Nine

Today I began at 11:00 AM moving on to cups, therefore practicing my cylinder shape centering as to a more flatter one with the plates. Also making cups requires less clay than making plates so I had to get used to the change in size. So I started practicing my cups with the first one not coming out well as I went down to much when putting the whole in the clay to open up the bottom, so I had to begin again. I cleared off that clay and wedged a new piece. This time it worked a lot better and I was able to get the cylinder shape. After getting this I began shaping the cup to the way I wanted giving it a curve towards the bottom and coming in again at the top. It turned out to be a bit too wide at the bottom but this is all just practice in figuring out what I want to achieve when making my cups.
Then I went on to working the pug mill when Patrice had a class as it seemed a bit too hectic and it would be helpful for her to have more clay strips available. Patrice and I noticed that we had a lot of dry clay hanging around and also a lot of wet clay so we decided to try and mix these two together to hope the pug mill will produce clay that is appropriate to use. In order to do this we had to leave the mixed clay in the pug mill over night and continue the process tomorrow.
This evening I came back to the art building to continue practicing my cup shapes because I tend to struggle with forming shapes I am happy with and shapes that I am able to be constant with. Today I filled my required three hours of work.