Empty Bowls!

sorry its late...i had absolutely no time to do it

sketches and epiphanies!

when i was working on one of my projects today i just started to think about something. Sketching is cool sometimes to organize your thoughts and to plan out the steps of a certain project. for instance, one of my projects for this month is a bathroom set (toothbrush holder, soap dish, and tissue box cover,) and i decided to sketch out a few different designs to put on them, along with steps of what i would do each day, so i could estimate how long it would take me. Well my other project is a set of vases. i had a couple sketches but this is the part where i think sketching can be thrown out the window. its a great feeling when something you envision comes to life, literally, through a sketch, but i think its an even more awesome feeling when youre working on your project and you get a sudden epiphany, a sudden cool idea that pops into your head. which is exactly what happened to me! i was just working on my vases when i got a little frustrated that i couldnt keep them centered. but then when i was finished i looked at it and thought the way that it was off-center looked kinda cool, kind of unconventional and a little modern and spunky? if you may. so i dramatized that by paddling one side of each of my pots to make them all off center in the same corresponding way. the flat side from the paddle is gonna have a flower design on it. anyways, that was my epiphany, that was my project, and these are my thoughts of the day. (:

next project.....

I have pretty much finished my cups to the greenware stage so now im moving onto the next prject.....hmmm. I was thinking something like a little bathroom set would be cool. it would include a toothbrush holder, a soap dish and maybe a tissue box cover or a paper cup holder (paper cups that you use to rinse after you brush your teeth.) OR maybe a couple vases.....i dont know, give me more ideas!the pictures are just for a reference.

my leaf mugs in progress!

This is MY leaf mug I have been working on....I'm gonna make another oneto have a set, Im pretty excited about it!

Behind -_-

So I'm kinda freakin out today cuz im wayy behind. I have barely started my first project due at the end of the month. but i think its gonna be a mug with leaf's either etched or sculpted onto the sides, and maybe flowers too? originally i was gonna do petals comning off the rim but....i just realized that wouldnt make sense because then you couldnt drink out of it....? so i dont know. I just trimmed the mug today and it's a little crappy cuz i havent trimmed since summer but....i think it will be cool. not sure what im gonna do for my 2nd project though......... The picture is not my mug but i found it online and it has a similar idea with the layered 3D leaves on the bottom.

Coincentration Ideas

I have figured out my concentration. (I think.) It is: Functional Pottery with surfaces that are inspired by the Earth. Here are some images that inspire me....

butterflies, daisies and dirt, oh my!

a couple ideas for my concentration- outdoor nature. im a girl who loves flowers and butterflies and such. i think theyre pretty, what can i say? I was thinking about doing a nature-inspired concentration. but im not quite sure how to put this in more specific words. I wanna be able to make flowered designs on my vases, but also maybe make planters or bird feeders, or maybe even hand-built sculptures of bugs or birds. is this possible to do all of this in one concentration? ideas? this is a link to a website i found full of pottery, mostly thrown, with plant designs on them. http://www.bungalowpros.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=24