This week in pottery class, Ron showed us how to facet pots. This was my most successful effort. Believe it or not, I used a stretched out spring from a ball point pen to make the design. If you pull the wire straight through, the spring will make stripes. To get this effect, I gently moved the wire back and forth as I pulled through the clay. The sides of the pot were vertical when I cut the facets. After cutting the design, I pushed out from the inside (while it was turning) to create the curve. This also caused the facets to twist a little which I think is really cool.
I can't wait to experiment more with this technique. I didn't get a chance this weekend. I have thus far been unable to reproduce the stretched out spring tool. The one pen I have taken apart so far had a very wimpy little spring in it that seemed way too flimsy when I pulled it apart. Warning to ball point pen users everywhere: your pens are not safe until I find the spring that I need. I also had a pile of things that had to be glazed this weekend, so I took care of that instead of making new stuff.
In other good news, we learned that we will be making our classes up that we missed due to snow. Yipee!
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