When asked to make a closed piece I spent a lot of time refining it to make it smooth so it wasn't completely closed in but it meant that I was able to make a tent-like shape. I used a metal kidney and wooden tools to scrape the shape and smooth it out. Throughout making the piece and spending more time smoothing it out it meant that the shape changed and went out an angle towards the bottom which gave it its own natural shape. I decided to take photos from different angles because I think they look like completely different pieces as to me the first photo looks more architectural whereas the second photo looks more like an object that would store things.
This bowl was made using a technique called coiling where I used extruded cylinders of clay to make a shape. At first I used quite thin pieces of clay which meant that it was difficult to sculpt it, however, I then used thicker coils and managed to create this bowl. Over time I started to realise the piece looked lopsided due to the unevenness of the coils and my technique. I believe that although it could've been a nice piece if it was even, I liked the way that the bowl went out to make it more open. I carved the inside of the bowl to create a pattern and make it look more interesting and more decorative as I believed that now it had taken on more of a natural form and it would look more like a decorative piece. I don't like the thick rim of the bowl as I believe it would look better if it had been smoothed over and looked thinner.
Because the bowl has gotten lighter after firing the it means that the shadows are more noticeable. If I were to have more time I could've glazed this bowl but I don't know if after the glaze the pattern I had scraped into the inside of the bowl would've been as sharp. Maybe in the future I could look at how glazes can affect the different patterns that are scraped into clay.
This piece used thicker coils that were even as they had been put through an extruder. I went along with the coils going in and out and made a spiky shape by smoothing the piece out at the edges. By using thicker coils it meant that I was able to scrape more clay off to create this spiky shape without having to worry about the clay thinning out and falling apart. As I was building up the piece coil by coil, I scraped the inside of the piece by creating a diagonal line pattern that changed direction with each layer. I think it could be improved by smoothing out the top of the piece a little more and by making the top spike a little smaller as I think it sticks out and doesn't blend in as much with the lower spikes.