I plan to complete my piece by putting black glaze on the lid, and filling the lid with glass, which will melt. After it comes outda of the kiln, I will paint the parts that I am leaving blank. I will be using acrylic paint to paint a rainbow and the clouds on my piece. One thing that I have found difficult to far was attaching the rainbow and clouds to the jar. This was challenging because my piece is round, and it was hard to get the clay to curl around the box. It was also hard to make the clouds stay on because they had to go over the rainbow. I think that the shape of my piece has been successful. I think the shape of my lid was successful too, although I wish that my lid was more circular. My process up to this point started with me taking a thick slab of clay. I ran that slab of clay in the slab roller, where that thick slab of clay became one fourth of an inch thick. I then laid out that piece and cut it how I wanted it. Then I wrapped the clay around a pipe to give it a good circular shape. My clay did not quite reach around the pipe, so I had to roll it around on the table to stretch it out slightly. I then repeated the slab process in order to get clay for my lid. I made a template using a piece of paper, and cut out two circles of clay. I cut out the inside of one circle, and used the scratch and slip method for attaching the pieces together, scratching up both pieces and wetting them to make sure that they stuck together, to create my lid. I then created two more circles to make my handle. Then I shaped my rainbow and clouds out of another slab, and scratched and slipped that to my piece. Then my piece was ready to be fired. Greenware is an unfired pottery or sculpture piece. Firing a piece is when you heat pottery in order to make it hard and durable. This is done in what is called a kiln. Bisqueware is a ceramic piece that has gone through the first firing at a relatively low temperature, and is ready to be glazed before going back into the kiln.
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