I have a more definite idea of what I want to do for the surface pattern, I just need to get some sketches done and worked through.
Last week I taught a clay workshop with the help of Michelle, she did the monsters while I did the throwing, it felt good after the break to get my hands back in the mud. So now I have some monsters and some bowls drying in my kitchen, they should be done in plenty of time to return them.
I have lots to keep my fingers crossed with this week. Also trying to set up a temporary space to work from, and looking at selling my unused kiln, the Nabertherm is all I need at the moment and I have plenty of kiln space that I can borrow locally.
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| 2nd piece of ceramics I ever made with various reduced Stoneware Glazes |
I have been tidying the house over the weekend and pulled everything out from under the stairs, and I found this piece of ceramics hiding, this is the second piece of work that I ever made, we have to construct over several weeks various geometric forms, lean to keep our work damp and sealed against drying then once we had made all the forms join them together. All my forms here are hollow and either made from slabs, extrusions or pinch pots joined together. When I think about these now a days I wonder if I could make them on a much grander scale.
I was wondering how you attached all those geometric forms together, it must be much lighter as well for them being hollow! The ball at the front has to be my favourite interesting technique!
ReplyDeleteVictoria: the glaze is crawling which is technically a mistake, I always thought it was due to too much iron, as I think it is coated with iron and the glaze itself is filled with it. All the colours are the same glaze recipe but with different oxides added (at least that's what I remember). This glaze crawled so much it ran onto the shelves.
DeleteLots of scoring and lots of slipping to attach them all together. I could do a blog on it in the future once the space is sorted.
A mobile business of pottery what fun.
ReplyDeleteLinda: IT is fun teaching in different spaces, it can be crazy teaching 20 to 30 children. Coming back to the studio and fire it all off in peace and quiet can be nice too. IT helps improve my confidence and reminds me how far every potter comes to be be what they are.
DeleteI accidentally dropped the first thing I ever made down a long set of stairs and into a skip. It was hollow geometric forms too. But also a particular shade of snot green.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I ever made was a tower, I posted it a few months ago, my parents had it in there porch and my nephew who was in a bad mood smashed it.
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