Coil building vase

I wasn’t particular interested in the coil building at the start but when I worked further into it I started to enjoy it. I begun by creating design ideas for the form then chose a final outcome, which was simplistic but elegant. When making the form I found it difficult to make a smooth surface because I was being too delicate with it so I had to put more pressure on the kidney to take excess clay away to make it smooth which turned out successful.

After the form was complete I started to design ideas for the pattern, which I found easy because I had a few pattern ideas in my fine art book.  Once the pattern was chosen I decided to use yellow slip because the patterns would stand out really well against the red clay. Once the slip was placed on the vase I left it to dry but not to the point where it was leather hard just slightly soft. Carving the pattern on was the longest part out of the process because the patterns were small and I wanted to take my time on it.