what i made during my fourth ceramics class

i had scheduled myself to spend this hour in the ceramics studio, but i didn't want to go all the way there and find that my bisqueware wasn't ready, so i've decided to push that time to tomorrow and instead publish the latest in the what i made in my ceramics class series. i'm currently past the halfway point of my third wheel throwing class, but these are the final pieces from last semester's "color expressions and surface techniques" hand-building course. here's what i made during my fourth ceramics class. the abstract for this class was learning about and using various techniques for adding color to clay. it was a hand-building course, although i threw a few pieces on the wheel during open studio hours, but the primary focus was on the materials added for color expression. the first couple of classes focused on nerikomi, a japanese term for marbling various color bodies (clay). the square-pattered cup is tear-dropped because i didn't roll a big enough piece for a mug, but i…