Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: classes, pottery, stamped, textures

This week in my LILLSTREET THROWDOWN class, they brought back their “dice-decorated” maquette cylinders along with the taller vases they made using the first piece as inspiration. The second part of the challenge was that it had to be a minimum of nine-inches tall. It was great to see how they each “embraced” the challenge both using the single die to decorated the cylinder, but then again to decorate the larger piece. The “spirit” of the challenge was to use that “one dice-one tool” concept for the larger vase once again… and to use the design concept from the first maquette cylinder to create a beautiful larger vase.

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Jen

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Molly

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Norah

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Taylor

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Tracy

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Christine

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Helen

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Jacob

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Jen

Dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Stacey!
This project came in second… mostly for the overly-creative way Stacey worked outside of the box and extrapolated her layered maquette design into a stacked & textured “layer” vase!

And the FIRST PLACE dice-decorated maquette and “inspired” vase by Dana
mostly for sticking with the “pure intention” of the challenge… and for learning & re-designing her vase based on what she liked & disliked about the maquette… as well as the smoothest burnished surface ever!!!

 

 

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