Fall Quarter, getting started

Seems like a year since I touched clay.  Usually I have a more complicated semester plan, but my plan for this fall is really simple:

YVCC, Fall 12/ plan

- Fire clay slabs, finish with paintings

- Seek collaboration

Tokamari, Porcelain:

         -Cups X 10

         -Large bowls X2

         -T-Pot X 2

         -Mid size bowls in variety

Dakota jars

-       Several midsize jars with panel emblishment

-       A large jar for smoke fire or drum

-       Work on surface designs

Sculpture:

-       Bust

-       Abstract form

Glazes

         - Continue to work with glaze combinations on table ware

         - Continue with earthenware surface decoration

         - Try a combination of Earthenware decoration and smoke fire

I hope to add to this plan as the quarter progresses.  I am focusing on quality this quarter, trying to produce fewer unsatisfactory pieces, and better individual pieces.  By better I mean more balanced, better workmanship, higher finish. I am trying to work with fewer tools and simplify my processes. I also want to nail down some new glazes and earthenware surface treatments.  I picked up some new slips last summer, hope I can remember what it is I was going to do with them.  

The large plates I started last spring are all slipped with a ball clay slurry.  I want to try and reduce breakage (that I've experienced in the past) and simplify and improve my brushwork coverings?  I hope to help with firing the kilns and am open to new projects that don't take away from the work I plan to do with Larson Board this fall.