This begun as a vase, actually! It was all going very well until I made one sharp little move and it got all wonky at the lip. I was then inspired to turn it into an altered lip project, by pushing in parts of the lip. The surface decoration of this piece was done in two glazes. I dipped it originally in the cobalt blue color, and the secondary dripping color was unidentified in the glazing room so I took a chance on it and it turned out to be a lighter blue color with little specks of brown in it. The cobalt glaze color was very thin when I glazed it, and thus has this almost water-like effect on the contours of the project. The second glaze color seemed to be thicker and thus didn't drip as well over the sides of the project as I had originally intended. The glaze dripped from the bottom of the pot was intended to balance out the movement of the lip, however I feel like it was done a little sloppily and didn't blend together as well as I had thought it might. I also wish that the lip itself was more evenly spaced out with the wave itself, however I do think that it looks a little more natural, as one side of the lip is a little higher than the other. Over all, I think it was a very interesting experiment with shape and color, but next time I would like to pay more attention to the detail and maybe think of a better way to accentuate the curved lip of the project.
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May 2012
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