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My plan for my sculpture is to make it a red drum. I need to smooth it out and I want to make the parts that stick out matte gray and the rest shiny and red. I want to put broken glass in the top so it looks like a real drum head. So far, I found that making a lid that fits the base and that stays up the way I want it to is really difficult. I worked on it for at least 3 days. It was difficult because I didn't know if I wanted to make it go over the sides of the base or how deep I wanted to make the top. I really liked making the parts that stick out. Slipping and scoring is fun and I just felt like it was fun scratching up the base before I wet it down and put the clay on. First, I got a chunk of clay and rolled it into a flat slab. Then, I rolled it around a pvc pipe and scored and slipped the ends to each other. I used another slab to put on the bottom and score and slip that onto the base. Next, I got another slab and did the same thing I did to the bottom, except I made it almost 3 times as thick. I fit it to the top of the base and rolled a circle to keep it in place. I used a ribbon tool and an exacto knife to cut out the middle of the lid to be able to put glass in it later. Then I rolled out 5 pieces of clay and scored and slipped them to the sides, all spread out equally from each other. I seperated the pieces from the lid and the base. Then it was time to fire my greenware. I got it fired over the weekend and came back to a bisque.
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