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This week I started my pouring vessel project. I’ve been trying to throw it on the wheel but it is a lot harder than I thought. I have failed 3 out of 4 times and when I finally got it to be close to what I wanted, I decided it was as good as it was going to get.
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It was really hard for me to find an idea for this project. I spent a lot of time at the dollar store walking through the aisles looking for something I could use that came in packs of large quantities. I found a 48 pack of plastic spoons. I decided to make a spoon crown like in iCarly. I started hot gluing the spoons together to make a base. I quickly realized that this was going to be a struggle because the hot glue kept melting the spoons and changing their shape. I decided to power through, it just took a lot of patience to put the spoons together. I bought about 150 spoons but only ended up using about 25 of them.
First, I rolled out a large slab and laid it on a plate to mold it. I waited for it to dry for a couple days. I printed the Bojangles logo and traced it onto the plate. I used ribbon tools to carve the logo in deeper and then painted black under glaze onto the design. The next day, I tried scraping the underglaze off, and my piece cracked. I decided to try again so I rolled another slab and put it on a plate mold. The next day I put under glaze on it again. When I tried to scrape it the next day, it cracked again. I decided to try one more time because it was due very soon. I rolled another slab and let it dry over the weekend. I put under glaze on and very carefully scraped it off. The piece still cracked, but only a minor crack in the corner of the plate, so I figured I would keep going because time was running out. I very carefully continued scraping and started painting glaze onto the letters and the rest of the logo. The glaze went into the smaller letters that read "Famous Chicken N Biscuits" and kind of covered up the under glaze. The glaze colors started mixing a little bit, but I powered through anyway.
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May 2019
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