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Nice mamo white vase with a winkour blue interior

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CER 223: Week 1

My expectations for this class is to learn how to throw, I have worked with the wheel before once, but I only made one object, and I basically just happened upon it by accident. I hope to learn the various techniques that are required for wheel throwing. I’m taking this class because I believe that it will act as a sort of therapeutic class, amongst the stress of my Senior Thesis project. I just want to have one class that is hands on, and allows me to get dirty. I’ve had experience with hand building before; in both high school, and a class at SU as well.

We started out the class with trying to get a feel for the various wheel speeds, without any clay on the wheel. Then we went on to have a demonstration on centering the clay, and then pulling up the walls in order to create a cylinder. 

When I finally got down to the nit and gritty of actually working with clay on the wheel, I found that it was way more difficult that I expected. The clay itself is extremely hard to work with, working muscles in my arms to center the clay that I never knew existed. Whenever I got to the point of trying to pull up the walls of the clay, I always managed to separate the base from the rest of the piece. By the end of the final class of the week, I made two cylinders; one of which was extremely messed up looking, with a hole that I kinda fudged together, and the other one was starting to resemble that of a cylinder. 

Above I posted a video about centering clay, getting a different perspective from what was given, without using a sponge at all.