A menagerie of beasts

Each creature was made in five minutes by three learners: one making a head, one a body and one a combination of legs/wings/feet/claws etc. Each group comprised one learner new this term, one who joined the class fairly recently and one who has been attending for longer. Come Halloween look out for these creatures roaming the area. Be afraid, be very afraid...

 

Beast 2

Beast 3

Beast 4

Beast 5

Beast 6

Three mugs

Stoneware, thrown, glazed with tin white earthenware inside and johns green outside. 

I glazed the inside first , biscuit fired it a second time , and then glazed the outsides.

Giant clam

And not a big vjj as everyone keeps insinuating

This is coiled out if smooth black clay. Edges worked with the fingers to pull them out and ruffle them. Used a wooden tool to gouge lines into the leather-hard surface. Filled these holes with a thick slip made from porcelain which was dabbed on and scrapped back once it had dried. 

Beginning of new term

Experimental glaze - rough purple under transparent turquoise. Should have been more joined. Clay body over fired so it's very dark and not as contrasting as it might have been. Inside tin white with a drip of turquoise came out better.