Animal Pinch-Pots

For this assignment, students had to create "eggish" animal figurines using a new hand-building technique: pinch-pots.

Each student made two of these pinch-pots, fused them together at the rims, and used the resulting egg shape to build an animal of their choosing.

The animals are representative of a characteristic that the student either strongly admires or dislikes. Here are some of the finished pieces, fresh out of the glaze kiln: