Pinch Pot Pottery

This is the final product of my pinch pot piece. I started out with a basic form of a bowl-like shape and it took me a while to get the shape I wanted. The base kept becoming wider and wider when I didn't want it to, so I had to work on keeping my fingers straighter and not pinching out, but trying to pinch in and up instead. Then once I got the base that I wanted, I I moved on to the top piece. The top piece was also a basic pinch pot, but this one's base was much smaller so that  I could get the spout look that I wanted.  It took me a while with the top piece also because the clay was relatively weak and so when I was trying to smooth the bumps out, it made parts of the clay really thin and weak. So I had to work on putting the right about of pressure on the parts that I wanted. When I was done, I made a coil and attached it to the bottom pinch pot and attached the top piece to the coil. After I smoothed everything out, I created my spout. It was hard smoothing everything out, but once I was done, it was exactly how I wanted it to turn out. I then made the design on the outside. I had a hard time finding a design that I liked that showed movement. I wanted a simple design at first, but it didn't show enough movement, so I though of some crazier out of the box ideas that I liked and decided to go with one. I didn't want to just carve a design in, I wanted it to pop and stand out, so I created a 3-D design . I think my pinch pot was successful, except I wish I would've fixed my handle a little bit more, because it doesn't look exactly how I wanted it took look, even though it came close.