Meeting with Jocelyn is difficult because her room is nine times out of ten a chaotic menagerie of students actually in her class, students skipping other classes, students with free periods, past students, prospective students, and God only knows who else. And me. Today she was also trying to work on some item on the computer, so I came in quietly and noticed two plaster bats replete with just-pugged wet clay, so I spread it on the other two bats and caused it to dry, and then wedged it, so I can throw tomorrow, which means I can put up the highly anticipated Making Things: Part II entry on Wednesday, when I trim, and also a bonus Making Things, part III entry, in which I explain the process of burnishing.
My first piece is out of the bisque kiln, which I had burnished with the flat side of a paintbrush handle prior to firing; Jocelyn suggests a metal spoon next time, because it makes the lines of contact less noticeable, but the burnishing I did was still visible - more on that at a later date.
The rest of our meeting went more or less like this:
J: "Are you doing okay?"
Self: "Yup."
J: "On schedule?"
Self: "Yup."
J: "Okay!"
Self: "Bye!"
It's true, you see. I know Ms. Gergely wants my head on a silver platter, but the thing is, my journal is behind, and there have been some unfortunate mix-ups about the whole coming-to-class thing, but my project is proceeding pretty much apace. I'm wheel-throwing tomorrow, trimming Wednesday, burnishing and maybe adding designs the rest of the week, and then doing it all over again until I have a suitable number of pieces, which should be soon. We are well into the month of March but the snow is still thick on the ground at my house, which means no digging as of yet. And talking of digging, Jocelyn and I did discuss materials to add to my pieces in firings, but I'll put that in the "Materials" entry, for which you should stay tuned.
My first piece is out of the bisque kiln, which I had burnished with the flat side of a paintbrush handle prior to firing; Jocelyn suggests a metal spoon next time, because it makes the lines of contact less noticeable, but the burnishing I did was still visible - more on that at a later date.
The rest of our meeting went more or less like this:
J: "Are you doing okay?"
Self: "Yup."
J: "On schedule?"
Self: "Yup."
J: "Okay!"
Self: "Bye!"
It's true, you see. I know Ms. Gergely wants my head on a silver platter, but the thing is, my journal is behind, and there have been some unfortunate mix-ups about the whole coming-to-class thing, but my project is proceeding pretty much apace. I'm wheel-throwing tomorrow, trimming Wednesday, burnishing and maybe adding designs the rest of the week, and then doing it all over again until I have a suitable number of pieces, which should be soon. We are well into the month of March but the snow is still thick on the ground at my house, which means no digging as of yet. And talking of digging, Jocelyn and I did discuss materials to add to my pieces in firings, but I'll put that in the "Materials" entry, for which you should stay tuned.
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