Plate Project

For this Project, I wanted to experiment with using slabs and stamps. I originally got my inspiration from a video I watched on Edmodo.

To begin making my plate, I rolled out a flat slab of clay, then cut a circle out of the slab. The next step was forming the flat circle into a plate, with a small circular indent directly in the middle. After this, I rolled a coil out and scored and slipped it to the bottom of the plate. After my piece came out of the kiln as bisqueware, I saw that the coil had cracks in the creases where I connected it to the plate. To try and fix this issue, I made sure that my glazes went inside the cracks. I decided to use a yellow underglaze within the center of the plate, and inside of the flower prints I stamped into the plate previously to firing it. Then I used a Amaco crystaltex CTL-48 Sun and Sea. The pigments of color in the crystaltex contained shades of yellow, which would work well with the yellow speedball underglaze.

In the end, my plate turned out okay, besides the remaining cracks underneath the coil. If I could go back and restructure the bottom and coil, I would.