Mugs

    
     Just like my bowls, the effort put into my mugs was no where near what it should have been.  Personally, I believe I had more trouble with the mugs than I did with the bowls, only because with the mugs you have to really bring your sides up, but when it comes to the bowls, you still have to bring them up but in a way, things just work out naturally.  Due to centrifugal motion, bowls have a tendency to want to form outward.  What I am trying to say is that when you are throwing mugs, by leaning in and placing yourself directly over the wheel, it makes it a lot easier to throw forms strait upward, but with bowls they form at an angle creating that bowl shape a lomost on their own.
     With mugs, not only do we need to create the forms themselves, but we also have got to create the handles which has its own separate part.  After creating the mugs, we then take a thin piece of clay and pull downward using water which creates the handle.  After we get the handle the way we want it, we have to set them aside to dry a little.  After both the mugs and handles have dried a little, we can then combine the two.
     In all theory, mugs don't take any longer than bowls because with bowls, we have to trim them after they have become leather hard....With mugs, we create the forms and have to pull handles.  The both of them require two stages...Next semester, I plan on pushing myself with mugs if that is what we will be working with....