After more than ten years, I decided to take up pottery lessons again, but this time with serious determination of mastering the craft. Looking at all things I made, thought it might be interesting to compare them and find out whether I am making any progress this time round.
These were the stuff I made then:
- Methods used: pinch pot, slabs, coiled pot.
- Glaze: didn’t part of them, but never really learnt about the types of glaze
And these were the things I made since September 2012:
This time I am very fortunate to have an excellent mature tutor Mr Hinson to guide the class through different techniques, teach us the knowledge of various glazes, with various demonstrations.
In some ways, the projects I made this time were not as pretty or perfect as those made 10 years ago, but I am happy with them as I managed to do them independently from the beginning to the end.
- Methods used: pinch pot, coiled, slabs, moulding, English slipware
- Glaze learnt: earthen ware glaze, stone ware glaze, slip, trailing slip
So, as they say “practice make perfect”, I need to keep up with my learning, hopefully one day I can actually produce some perfect objects.