Goodbye Amy, Hello Whitney



Today was Amy's last day at school. I know she decided she wasn't going to cry, but by the end of class I could tell that it was really hard for a lot of us to keep back the tears. Although I am REALLY sad that she is leaving, I am happy for her, her family, and her soon-to-be addition to the family, Blake!!!!! I wish her well and hope that she comes to visit us!!

Whitney, our new teacher, seems SUPER nice. I can't wait to get to know her better. I hope she will learn to love our class for all of our odd quirks.... I think she will. Lexie and I decided that we would make a pact with the other AP3D kids to stand up against the evils of the art teacher in the class next to us who will remain unnamed...............

ANYWAYS I am really looking forward to next semester and can't wait to see what..... interesting things I will decide to make. Heres one of the projects that I have been working on this week:

It's another basket made out of clay slurry. This one is the biggest one that I have made so far. I'm just crossing my fingers that it won't break!! I'm just waiting for it to dry so I can bisque fire it. If it makes it through bisque fire then I should be safe.... knock on wood.

So..... that's all for now.

BYE AMY!!!! YOU'RE THE GREATEST <3

Busy as a Bee

Well, winter break is over. Time to head back to school.... and start counting down the days until spring break!!! Today I was cleaning out my cabinet and was surprised to find a concentration project that I had completely forgotten about. WHAT A LOVELY SURPRISE. I was going to photograph it and put it up with this blog but unforntunately it had to go straight into the kiln.... So I will upload a picture of it later. Today I succeeded in making a basket using a plaster mold and the handheld extruder. It turned out pretty well and it looks a little more basket-y than some of the other stuff I've been doing.

Today I also loaded two of my glazed baskets into the kiln. These were the really fragile ones and I'm just crossing my fingers that they survive in the kiln....

So now for the million-dollar question....... WHAT'S NEXT?!
Well just today I sent an email to Marion Pollmann (see 2 blogs down) asking her about some of her techniques. Hopefully she will get back to me by next class because I would love to start trying to create a piece similar to her work. Something like this:

That's all for now. Bye.