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What do I plan to do?Since my piece is finally out of the kiln, I plan to use an acrylic dark brown on the boarders for the dirt and the wood. Im going to paint the water on the sides and melt glass on the lid surrounding the lilypad. Im also going to paint the planks aroynd the edges a deep green and i havent figured out what im going to do with the moon yet. What has been difficult so far?The biggest source of difficulty so far has been rolling the slabs and shaping the box. Everytime i would go to connect the next panel, I struggled to hid the seem and then all the borders became bumpy. Making the flower, surprisingly, was the easiest part. Once I made the slab the thickness I desired, I simply cut tear-drop shapes and bent them around my thumb to give them the angle I liked. I started by rolling slabs on the slab roller, and cut out a 4x4 square using a template I had made from printer paper. I then shaped the box by scratching and slipping to adhere the panels and shape the square. I rolled a few more slabs so I could add details like the flower, plants, and the triangle supports. I carved into the box with the needle tool to design the background. (Water, Moon, Swan...). When I was happy with my greenware box, I set it out, ready to go into the kiln and come out as bisqueware.
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