For my senior Externship, I decided to intern at Claytime Ceramics in Ocean Beach with two of my friends. Coming into this, I was really nervous because I wasn't sure what to expect. I didn't know if we were going to being doing pottery for our mentor, teaching classes or anything at all. I was super nervous about meeting our mentor at first and just working there. I was scared that I was going to break something on the first day but thank god I didn't.
On the first day, I already started learning. As soon as we walked in, she taught us the process of how the pottery is made, painted, and then sealed. After walking us through the process, she let us try it for ourselves and it was way more difficult than I thought but I definitely had fun and learned a lot while doing it.
Below are pictures from the first three days of Externship:
On the first day, I already started learning. As soon as we walked in, she taught us the process of how the pottery is made, painted, and then sealed. After walking us through the process, she let us try it for ourselves and it was way more difficult than I thought but I definitely had fun and learned a lot while doing it.
Below are pictures from the first three days of Externship:
On the first day, it was a little introduction to what we were looking forward to doing. We did do some hands on work but it wasn't like an actual independent task she would normally give us; more of a "try this" kind of thing if that makes sense. On the second day is when were given our first small project. She asked us to go through her paint bottles, throw away the empty/dried out one and with the leftovers, paint the caps with the colors they are. In the first picture you can see Jade painting a red bottle's cap and the third picture is us going through the paints. On Wednesday, she asked us to make her a little cardboard shelf to organize her paints which is still in the process and also a sign to advertise fathers day. In the video you can see the process of both of those things coming a long. Throughout the time of us at internship, we all switched jobs around.