clay: contemporary candelabra

At the parks and rec ceramic studio, I've been making candelabras of a modernist and organic bent. And even though I had to use candle "snuggers" which are basically a piece of thin, squishy foam to make the tapers fit in a few of the holders, I'm pleased by the final outcome even though there's always room for improvement. First tip, make the taper holders first or before the base, and I need to bring one of those cones to shape them to be more circular. Second tip, don't make the slab of the base too thin; otherwise I'll need really thick coils to reinforce where the base undulates and sometimes rips. Third tip, with this speckled buff clay body, I need to stir the heck out of the white gloss (or maybe even just bring it to my high school ceramics studio where we've a bucket of Laguna white gloss that has more opacity). However, I'm happy enough with so much raw clay in contrast to the ceramic glaze. Fourth tip, let the pot dry much more slowly in order to ground out any instability on concrete when it's greenware which sometimes warp while drying for the piece to be more level after the final firing.

And yeah it's time to buy a bag of speckled buff and start making these at the Clay Life studio, where there are more tools available for me to refine the build and the Majolica glaze produces more contrast of white glaze and raw clay.