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Test results

It was a long time since my last entry and lots of things happened.
I have the results of the firing of the thrown pieces :



 I am happy with the results. They are a bit too chunky but as I told you before I have very little of throwing skills.
I got few ideas from this pieces - I think they will be a great wall pieces.
I also started to think about simplifying my design and maybe concentrate more on joined arches rather then trying to build bigger structures with them.
If I will be able to find out how to make nice 'waves' it will be easier to take it from there and think bigger :)

Together with my thrown pieces I have fired similar forms made of paper-clay and fiber- clay.
The paper-clay didn't work at all - it went flat as a pancake.... but!  Surprisingly the fiber-clay worked quite well :)



                                              
                                                Paper-clay test. Didn't work at all, tured up flat.

                                              
                                        Fiber-clay test. Bits had moved but I am still happy with it.
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