In summer 2013 I was privileged to take a ceramics class taught by Prof. Turker Ozdogan. He has a great facility at GWU. The class introduced pinching, coiling and soft and hard slab techniques. Key words about ceramics are: wall thickness. Working in three dimensions is very challenging; a piece can look good from some angles but not others. Careful attention must be also be paid to glazing as a bad glazing job can ruin a piece. Low firing offers a much broader range of colors, while high fired pieces have a more earthy palette. I learned just enough ceramics to find out that this is a very interesting field. |