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: