Almost done

This week I kept working with my cup, and now I'm more or less ready for glazing and putting it in the oven. Initially I thought of doing a green slip, but the slip we have is not only pastel green (I wanted more of an emerald), it also acts a bit strangely becoming drops of glaze. Therefore I have decided to do a metallic brown slip.

At the beginning of this week's lesson, I discovered that my cup was bone-dry, not leather hard! I had covered it in a plastic bag and all,, bu it still dried. Lucky for me, I found that it was still good to work with, and that it was perhaps easier getting it smooth, and carving the scales.
I made the coils more even, before finishing the carving. Then I added the bottom part. At first, it looked a bit strange, as the tail was suspended from the air (I had made it without the bottom part). However I managed to make the bottom part to look like it was part of the coil, and I made a new tail, which now rests on the ground.

I really hope that it won't crack while drying so that next lesson I will be able to smoothen it out (especially on the inside, which currently looks a little messy), add the slip, and it will be ready for burning! :D

Here are some in-progress pics:

Continuing my cuppp!

This week I continued working on my clay cup. It was now leather hard, so it was good to work with. I emphasised the releif of the snake coil (making sure that the thinnest parts didn't become too weak). I also made the bottom part, and added the head. For the head, I decided not to make a mouth in order to keep my design "clean", and added the eyes by creating indentations at each side of the head, and adding some clay for the "eyebrow" ( I know, not the right word to use at all, but you get it; the area above the eyes).
Then I started carving the reptile scales. I want them to be darker than the rest of the glaze/slip/whatever I will be using, so I carve them before glazing.

I think it's starting to look nice, but I'm a bit afraid the tail will crack :/

Wellwell, here's how it looks for now: