Blog Assignment:

1. Prepare a blog post with photographs of your test tiles. Only photograph test tiles that deserve to be together as a group. It will be helpful to be able to compare them side by side in the exact same exposure and lighting. Other test tiles that do not relate to one another should be photographed separately. Each image should be labeled with the glaze combination, application, and layering method. I recommend not photographing all of your test tiles together, as it will most likely lead to a skewed and distorted photograph.

2. Also, while fresh in your head, write up a set of instructions that would guide someone else to build your reliquary. Discuss your idea development, how you applied techniques to match your concepts, and how the concept led to surface exploration. Guide step by step, the ideal way that you would have someone rebuild your sculpture knowing what you know now. Give clear instructions, tips, and hints based on your observations. Write as though this person has no experience in ceramics. Unpack assumptions behind terminology...do not assume your audience knows what it means to "slip and score," instead discuss the action and the purpose behind it. You have each learned a tremendous amount through trial and error of your own, and of your classmates. Before jumping right into the next project it will benefit you to record many of the things we discussed in class today. Learning is often the first step and teaching enhances and ingrains that knowledge.

3. After analyzing your glaze results, use this information to inform your audience on how you to approach decorating the surface. When do you make certain decisions and why? When is it too late to make other decisions...such as slip on bisqueware?