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After months of studies, I think I've finally narrowed in on a concept for a full series: a combination of my organic carvings with vessels. What's made this possible is that I finally sat down and learned how to throw on the wheel last week. These are all pieces I've managed to make on the pottery wheel and then layered on my hand-built style.

I'm really excited with some of these. Now the tricky part: picking a glaze. This feels far more terrifying than any step in the process because it really can't be undone. I've been obsessing over different glazes and finishes and have been really indecisive about it. Hopefully I don't simmer too long; there is not enough space in my apartment to be storing in-between pieces.

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in progress, charcoal and pencil drawings by eynzly

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I got a batch of pieces out of the kiln yesterday and am absolutely in love with the satin matte glazes I just tested. My favorite might be the chartreuse. It's been applied over speckled clay, and the glaze is still light enough to let those dark spots pop.

I'm really excited by how stable these glazes are. A number of these smaller pieces had developed tiny cracks from inconsistent drying, and I was worried they would be worsened by the glazing, but the opposite occurred: because the glaze is so stable, it actually filled those tiny cracks (this is my working theory). While I'm workshopping how to improve my drying, it was a huge sigh of relief to see the glaze didn't exacerbate the cracks in these early pieces.

The two blues were also nice, but I wasn't as happy with the coverage. The glaze itself is quite thick, so I tested both dipping and brush application. In the future, I'll either definitely dip or apply 4+ coats for the darker glazes. Both of these buddies are going to get re-fired. Fingers crossed the saturation improves.

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I quit my job this year. When I graduated university it was a dream job, but something I've discovered in adulthood is that dreams and feelings and interests change and transform and shift. At least they did for me. So I left my job to pursue a bunch of 'something else'-s for a while.

This was one of those 'somethings'. It's a storyboard about a potato.

I don't have a lot of experience hand drawing. I did some in school, but my bread and butter is drawing the perfect technical detail of a custom aluminum wall assembly in a CAD software. It is NOT drawing potatoes. But I've always loved telling stories, and if I was going to do 'something else', I wanted that 'something else' to force me into something new and different and wildly uncomfortable.

One of those discomforts has always been about posting my works, so naturally I had to take that on, too.

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I am very behind with my editing. Given that this challenge started on Feb 01, you can guess by how many weeks, but that's ok.

I’ve played with templates a couple times now, and this was the first time a piece came out close to the original design. One obvious difference is that I started with a 3D model that was then unrolled into the individual pieces. In my previous attempts, I had drawn the templates by hand based on my own calculations. It’s a sure sign that my math should never be trusted. 

I quite like the design of this mug, but I prefer smaller cup sizes. I think I’ll try again with a scaled down version of the template. Though one factor will be shrinkage when it’s fired: maybe that will be enough.

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charcoal series by eynzly

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charcoal work in progress by eynzly

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charcoal drawing by eynzly