Funky Ceramic Wall Vase

13. Flip the triangular slab of clay over (embossed surface face down) and place rolled up newspaper in the center.

14. Roll up the slab of clay around the newspaper forming a cone shape (figure D).

15. Twist the tail of the cone (figure E) around to make a squiqqle.

16. Smooth the back of the seam where the slab of clay joins.

17. Put two wads of clay on the back of the wall vase and poke holes in the wads of clay with the wire tool. Make the holes big enough for a wire to fit through after it is fired.

18. Gently wrap the wall vase with plastic and let it set up to the leather hard stage.

20. Re-wrap the wall vase and let the clay reach bone-dry stage.

21. Place the wall vase into the kiln and fire the kiln to cone 04.

22. After the bisque firing, paint the wall vase with a black under glaze wash over the center area of the wall vase (figure G).

23. Gently sponge the wash off leaving the dark wash in the crevices. This will really pull the imagery out (figure H).

24. Glaze the inside of the wall vase by pouring the glaze into the vase and then dumping it out.

25. Paint the colored under glazes around the embossed imagery and black stripes on the tail of the wall vase in concentric rings.

26. Paint clay glaze over the embossed imagery (figure I).

27. Put the wall vase back into the kiln for the final firing, which will be up to cone 8.

28. After the final glaze firing, put wire into the holes on the back of the vase and now the vase is ready for hanging.

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