Still Frustrated but getting somewhere

Well here I am, still working on the same box. I ended up redoing all the pieces of the box. After my last post I had 2 sides left. On second look at one, it was the backwards one and then looking at the last one a little while later, it was not flat. It is just easier to make a new flat one. I hope.

So I will not have finished sides, filed even, and beveled for tomorrow's class. It's better to have perfect clay then to be on schedule with less than perfect and not be happy. If I'm going to be good at this, I have to be patient, take my time to do it right.

It's difficult to see, white on white, but these are the 6 sides of my box.

The clay slabs needs to dry on white single ply tissue paper. I have to keep flipping them over to make sure they are flat and push them down if they curve up at all. It is very difficult to notice if they curve. These look flat to me. Currently I am happy with them.

Patients, patients, patients. Keep telling myself that.