1 Item sent to the bisque shelf — hopefully the edging I put on it will make it less Black Cauldron worthy.
I also learned to use a hump mold, after making slabs on the slab roller and decorating the slabs with stamps created in an earlier class.
I think this could get to be an expensive hobby. (ooh, look plaster sprig molds for making your own ferns or your own trout reliefs to decorate clay tiles, etc.) You can make templates from everything, including cutting up a paper coffee cup from a certain large coffeeshop chain… cut on the seams, flatten the sides so you can cut around it… and hey presto a cup template.
There are ways to re-use clay if you despise what you’ve created (at least up until the firing). I’m hoping someday to be around when they fire up the wood kiln, because that looks pretty cool. At least this lets me connect with something other than work, until it gets later lighter, so I see something other than a dark highway to and from work.
I hope you have fun with this class – I love slab work.
It does not have to be expensive – think about making bisque stamps. They won’t stick to the clay and the sky is the limit as far as designs go.
I posted about them awhile ago here: http://halcyonpottery.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/stamp-out-clay/: