The sculpture I am going to talk about today is one I made junior year of high school in my ceramics and sculpture class. For the project the class had to make what is called a coil pot. This is where you roll out a bunch of clay into circular strips and then layer them on top of each other to create a pot. I decided to take mine a step further and instead of just doing a plain pot with a smooth outside texture, I decided to add honeycombs which are the hexagonal shapes you would find on a beehive. I cut a sample shape out paper and just layered it all around my pot so I knew where to make the indents for the honeycombs. After carving all of the hexagons I realized it still looked a little boring so I chose to cut through some honeycombs leaving just a hole in its place. This was probably the most tedious part of the project but I think it was pretty successful and I was very happy with this part of it. Sadly, this project was the last one of the year so a lot of the glazes, which creates the shiny paint color when finished, were running out. We did not have basic colors like orange or yellow so I could not make my project look like an original beehive. I had to improvise and instead chose a color coincidentally called Autumn. I then added a few layers of plain white on top which created the final product you see in the picture below. Overall I was happy with this project but I do wish I had the colors necessary to create a realistic beehive.