So I am still building and working on my pot. I've reached 20cm, and I'm still going. I still feel behind but oh well.
Today, for my blog post, I wanted to talk about the inspiration for my pot. I realized that I actually never blogged about this.. so I am going to.
I wanted to do a pot with 2 mouths from the very beginning, a pot that separated in to two as it built up. I also had a thing about freestyle pots, and I really wanted to try something like it. ( Ive seen some last year pots) I liked how unplanned and free it looked.
This is the idea I started with. I didn't know about the techniques yet.. all I knew was that we were allowed to have "non coil" objects id they looked coil enough. ( spheres, swirls, shapes, holes, etc.) I started researching about possible ideas for my pot.
Today, for my blog post, I wanted to talk about the inspiration for my pot. I realized that I actually never blogged about this.. so I am going to.
I wanted to do a pot with 2 mouths from the very beginning, a pot that separated in to two as it built up. I also had a thing about freestyle pots, and I really wanted to try something like it. ( Ive seen some last year pots) I liked how unplanned and free it looked.
This is the idea I started with. I didn't know about the techniques yet.. all I knew was that we were allowed to have "non coil" objects id they looked coil enough. ( spheres, swirls, shapes, holes, etc.) I started researching about possible ideas for my pot.
All of these pots looked great and I used a bit from each pot. I used the corn like clay effect and the 3d swirls of the first pot, the.. swirls from the 3rd, and the more-freestyle looking shape of the 2nd. I actually liked the 2nd pot because It had been one of my other ideas for my pot, a house pot kinda thing. ( there was something similar looking in turkey.. the Cappadocia. .. where I went for summer)
Here is a photo of Cabbadocia ( I think that's how u spell it).. BTW, I took this photo! It was a view from our small.. shack ( supposed to be a hotel, but it was more like a smelly shack)
Here is a photo of Cabbadocia ( I think that's how u spell it).. BTW, I took this photo! It was a view from our small.. shack ( supposed to be a hotel, but it was more like a smelly shack)
However, as much as I wanted to do this pot, I wanted something even more freestyle. For some reason I thought somebody else was going to do something like it, and I wanted my pot to stand out, to be different from everyone elses. It ended up tho that most of the people just went with coils and swirls. Very few people actually took a different approach.. so this would have been a fine pot.
ANNNYWAYYS.. I wanted to make a pot, and I looked for more ideas. I was sure of everything except I felt like something was missing... then I found this.
I had mixed feelings. I was happy to figure out that I could do the big balls thing, yet I was kinda pissed off since this was similar to the pot that I was thinking. It was freestyle, it had 2 mouths, and it had swirls. I also wanted to do the balls.. which made my pot look even similar to this pot. I thought about giving up on this idea as well.. But I really really really wanted to do the pot anyways... so I DID. :D ;D :D :D :D :D :D Screw u whoever did this pot.
So yea. that is my story. I tried to make my pot original as possible with more swirls that protrude out and the touch of Alisa-ness with the tentacles, as well as the swirly ocean wave kinda feeling with my coils. ( my coils are actually not my real coils. They were smoothened and re emphasized to look COOL.. it actually started out as a accident, but it was pretty so I did it.)