There is a lot of room for improvement, but part of what I like about pottery is the iterative nature.

The colours look so much closer to the candy colour when the candy is in it, except for the green which makes it look like a mistake.

I used this vessel as a test for some of the glazes in a sample pack I bought. I wanted to approximate the colours so I picked the closest ones in there. Here it is empty:

  • groucho@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Clay has a memory. Depending on how an object is formed, if you don’t align all the little clay bits in the right direction they will spring back into a different shape during drying or its two trips through the kiln.

    I’d never thought of it like this but yeah. That makes a lot of sense.

    Also, you said “kiln”, which always makes me rewatch this.