Ceramic Project Week One

Have started our two week experiments in ceramics. We are doing naked Raku, I seem to have turned near dyslexic on the word Raku as it comes out Ragu, more Jamie Oliver the naked chef than clay vessels.

 I ventured out at dusk to take some photos for possible starting points,  our brief is urban or natural environments, straight, angular and wavy, I took photos on a building site and some in the countryside. After mark making experiments, I progresed  on to working with clay. my first task was to produce a coil vessel, then smooth the surface for firing with the naked Raku finish