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Joseph's Red Fox Pottery Blog
Showing posts with label bowls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bowls. Show all posts
05/07/2012
Fleetwood Library
27/05/2012
Sneak Preview - Earthenware Pottery
Took a few pictures as I unloaded the kiln, and I refilled it too, only trouble is I forgot to put one last mug in, so it will have to be bisque fired with the stoneware pots I have waiting to be fired. I have decided I want to up my game when it comes to my photography after reading quite a few articles and looking back at my photographs, it can only be for the better.
I have a busy few days so I won't be taking photographs of individual pots for a few days, are there any in particular people would like to see?
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| Contents of the kiln after the earthenware glaze firing |
17/05/2012
Sgraffito or Carving, I can't decide
I have been making some Terracotta pots over the last week, so I have been working with carving and sgraffito tools. I find that the pots spend a tremendous amount of time under plastic waiting for me and for them to be at the "right stage" time and patience is required. I really am learning that even waiting takes time.
Here are some of the pieces in progress for my up coming exhibition. All based on drawings I have done around the town.
Here are some of the pieces in progress for my up coming exhibition. All based on drawings I have done around the town.
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| Fleetwood Bowls |
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| Fleetwood Boxes |
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| Fleetwood pin dishes |
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| The Carving tool and some of the pin dishes. |
26/02/2012
Inspiration Part 2ii - The Design Drawings.
As I mentioned in a Previous Post I want quite a small range of pots, with a few different sizes to make kiln firings as economical as possible, to use up the space effectively. I don't want to make too many forms as I would rather 6 well made forms than 10 or so badly made different sorts of pots.
When I first started looking at doing it I thought about doing some stacking bowl forms of varying sizes but I might work those out at a different time, working out a few designs is complicated enough while investing a lot of energy into surface pattern. Making only five or six designs is a piece of advice that James Hake always strains to me every time I meet him, so this time I am going to listen.
So only the following things made it to the final list:
I feel that maybe there sure be something smaller still to fill up any gaps but they will have to be made from slabs, and really be for practising the surface pattern.
Bowls
When I first started with the ideas of bowls, I thought about using a very low wide bowl to decorate on the inside but half way through I started thinking about decorating the outside instead and what different forms that could come from that. On a few of the designs I took half of the drawing and made it into a cut away section to imagine the thickness of the pot and the foot ring.
The two main drawings I liked after talking to my wife where a very wide bowl with a small foot ring and one that is chunkier with a a foot ring that would have to be carved out of a mass of clay to work. Though I like both of these, I realise that for standard ware of something that is going to be made a lot a carved foot ring probably isn't the best solution.
Not happy with these but erased them so many times, will have to work on them a bit more to get them like the sketches and working out the dimensions so then they have those nice lines they had. The bottom one just needs a bit more flaring out at the top, but the top one needs redrawing completely. I might blow it up with the printer and try that way.
You have to consider the "wheat biscuit principle" which has two factors:
Cups
I worked up a sheet for the cups, but cups are what I struggle to design the most and found most of my ideas were contrived. I also want to design a cup that you couldn't just make in a one part slip casting mould, there are a number of ways to achieve it by undercutting and such but the easiest is to flip the form over and put the opening where the foot would be on a one part mould.
I am not sure of the proportions of these and will need to see them after being thrown on the wheel before I change what is happening, there is just something about them that doesn't sit right. I am more inclined to choose the one on the let as I am more likely to be able to squeeze three layers into the kiln, with 12cm tall I simply wouldn't be able to.
Pancheon
When I think Pancheon, I do think of Paul Jessop, I wish I had paid better attention when I visited Barrington Pottery back in September to gain more of a sense of his wonderful Pancheons. So researching these they are supposed to be wide and not very deep, my concern is that I can't fire them wide enough in my kiln to give them justice.
I am not entirely sure which design would work best, I am inclined towards the top design as it would seem wider for not being as tall. Though on the other hand because of some Northern attitude I feel inside you want the largest volume possible, not convinced this is the right attitude so will make both and see what comes out of it. While writing this I checked the measurements of my kiln and could take them up to 36cm (14") wide, which means I can add on that extra width, but I will have to check a
Jugs
I borrowed Bernard Rackham's Mediaeval Potsfrom the library and read through it once and looked through all the pictures numerous times and all I could think when I looked at all the the Jugs was Doug Fitch, every jug in that book I seem to have seen made by Doug at some point.
I do like this form and I feel that I could achieve this after a few attempts, I feel a bit rusty after having not thrown for a few weeks, but I am throwing this week no matter what as I am teaching Thursday afternoon. It is a very pleasing form, one that caught my eye instantly as I flicked through the pages.
I would love to throw some Baluster jugs but would take me a bit more practise and would mean stretching myself a bit more, but I am interested in the challenge and will give a really big surface to decorate, I know how to slip them, I will just need to practise the decoration thoroughly with all the curves these jugs provide.
I doodled through some roughs for the Baluster form, it is going to be an interesting process designing all the curves, where they fit together with should, belly and foot, but actually throwing what I design is going to be interesting with it being such a tall slender form.
Tyg
I saw my first Tyg whilst at the Harris Museum in Preston during my repeat second year when we were looking at Pottery that had been designed for the Preston Guild. They were highly decorated covered with inscriptions and poems that I didn't pay as much attention to as I should have. I remember them talking about the traditions of communal drinking before Preston became Teetotalin the 19th century.
The other time I have really seen these are Paul Jessop's Wassail Cups, unlike Barrington Court I don't know of any nearby apple orchards where they celebrate and hold a festival to give back to the orchard. (My house is supposed to have been built on an apple orchard, which is why there isn't clay close to the surface like there are on neighbouring roads.)
I made some not very good versions in stoneware and never really glazed them, or did anything with them, they are still sat on my table with other small bits of biscuit pottery inside. Tyg's aren't used day to day but still they are something I want to make from time to time even though I am not convinced they will be commercially viable but I want to be able to write verse on these.
I have yet to do a design for the Tyg, as I want to play around with the idea a little bit more.
Platter
For my platter form, as much as I can throw something round, I really want to do a squared off dish more like this one by Ron Philbeck. Though for a rectangular dish like that I would need a mould.
I doodled some designs just nothing concrete as I if I go done the rectangular dish approach I either have to source or make a mould.
To Finish
I must note I usually work in Pen whilst designing but I haven't ever designed before knowing that it would go out to such a large audience and that made me feel a little uncertain, as I will be judged how this develops once it is in clay, I was at my degree too but I cared very little while I was learning, I had been at university for 7 years over my different courses and just wanted it to end.
Recently I have considered an MA, but can't really justify the cost and I don't like the idea of going back to UCLAN, if I did it would have to be something where I could play around with kiln firings like at Loughborough with their nice new anagama kiln. But with another little one on the way it would be stupid.
When I first considered designing this my thoughts where very much on the new Leach Pottery Standard ware, but as I started to but pencil to paper I wanted to avoid the forms being too similar to them, but they seem to have leaned very close to Ron Philbeck instead with various forms and then Doug and Paul with their amazing pots too.
Coming next time, I am going to be doing a more on the surface pattern, trying to work things out with inks and some of the other materials I have around here.
When I first started looking at doing it I thought about doing some stacking bowl forms of varying sizes but I might work those out at a different time, working out a few designs is complicated enough while investing a lot of energy into surface pattern. Making only five or six designs is a piece of advice that James Hake always strains to me every time I meet him, so this time I am going to listen.
So only the following things made it to the final list:
- Mug
- Bowl
- Jug
- Platter
- Tyg
- Pancheon
I feel that maybe there sure be something smaller still to fill up any gaps but they will have to be made from slabs, and really be for practising the surface pattern.
Bowls
When I first started with the ideas of bowls, I thought about using a very low wide bowl to decorate on the inside but half way through I started thinking about decorating the outside instead and what different forms that could come from that. On a few of the designs I took half of the drawing and made it into a cut away section to imagine the thickness of the pot and the foot ring.
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| Rough Workings for designing a Bowl |
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| Roughing out proportions for Bowls |
You have to consider the "wheat biscuit principle" which has two factors:
- being able to fit four wheat biscuits comfortably in the bowl (dimensions of the well known brand being 4" by 2" by 1/2")
- the milk to cereal ratio in the bowl. It is a very complicated one I don't understand that was added by my mother.
Cups
I worked up a sheet for the cups, but cups are what I struggle to design the most and found most of my ideas were contrived. I also want to design a cup that you couldn't just make in a one part slip casting mould, there are a number of ways to achieve it by undercutting and such but the easiest is to flip the form over and put the opening where the foot would be on a one part mould.
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| Roughing out proportions for Cups (handle designs need doing) |
Pancheon
When I think Pancheon, I do think of Paul Jessop, I wish I had paid better attention when I visited Barrington Pottery back in September to gain more of a sense of his wonderful Pancheons. So researching these they are supposed to be wide and not very deep, my concern is that I can't fire them wide enough in my kiln to give them justice.
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| Roughing out proportions for Pancheon |
Jugs
I borrowed Bernard Rackham's Mediaeval Potsfrom the library and read through it once and looked through all the pictures numerous times and all I could think when I looked at all the the Jugs was Doug Fitch, every jug in that book I seem to have seen made by Doug at some point.
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| Surrey Jug from Bernard Rackham's Mediaeval Pots |
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| York type Baluster Jug from Bernard Rackham's Medieval Pots |
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| Trying to Learn the form of a Baluster. |
Tyg
I saw my first Tyg whilst at the Harris Museum in Preston during my repeat second year when we were looking at Pottery that had been designed for the Preston Guild. They were highly decorated covered with inscriptions and poems that I didn't pay as much attention to as I should have. I remember them talking about the traditions of communal drinking before Preston became Teetotalin the 19th century.
The other time I have really seen these are Paul Jessop's Wassail Cups, unlike Barrington Court I don't know of any nearby apple orchards where they celebrate and hold a festival to give back to the orchard. (My house is supposed to have been built on an apple orchard, which is why there isn't clay close to the surface like there are on neighbouring roads.)
I made some not very good versions in stoneware and never really glazed them, or did anything with them, they are still sat on my table with other small bits of biscuit pottery inside. Tyg's aren't used day to day but still they are something I want to make from time to time even though I am not convinced they will be commercially viable but I want to be able to write verse on these.
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| Tyg from Bernard Rackham's Mediaeval Pots |
Platter
For my platter form, as much as I can throw something round, I really want to do a squared off dish more like this one by Ron Philbeck. Though for a rectangular dish like that I would need a mould.
I doodled some designs just nothing concrete as I if I go done the rectangular dish approach I either have to source or make a mould.
To Finish
I must note I usually work in Pen whilst designing but I haven't ever designed before knowing that it would go out to such a large audience and that made me feel a little uncertain, as I will be judged how this develops once it is in clay, I was at my degree too but I cared very little while I was learning, I had been at university for 7 years over my different courses and just wanted it to end.
Recently I have considered an MA, but can't really justify the cost and I don't like the idea of going back to UCLAN, if I did it would have to be something where I could play around with kiln firings like at Loughborough with their nice new anagama kiln. But with another little one on the way it would be stupid.
When I first considered designing this my thoughts where very much on the new Leach Pottery Standard ware, but as I started to but pencil to paper I wanted to avoid the forms being too similar to them, but they seem to have leaned very close to Ron Philbeck instead with various forms and then Doug and Paul with their amazing pots too.
Coming next time, I am going to be doing a more on the surface pattern, trying to work things out with inks and some of the other materials I have around here.
17/07/2011
Bowls Finally photographed
I have been making new bowls, just some general purpose and ice cream/dessert bowls, I made the form so then they would easily stack. They are decorated with the single blue/green cobalt stripe of my work. They are available in the shop right now.
Stack of Ice Cream Bowls
This stack has 3 ice cream and GP bowls to show that they even stack nicely inside each other.
Single General purpose bowl with single stripe on it
My little boy's Monster, he keeps carrying it round with with him and tells me it is going to eat me. I am planning to do a post on specially on kids and clay and birthday parties.
On another note in September I am planning a trip to the southern tip of the country, finally going to visit St Ives, and the trip will probably end 10th September at the Muchelney Pottery Open Day. There are other potters I would like to visit Paul Jessop, Doug Fitch. I would like to visit Svend Bayer, Nic Collins and Richard Batterham(If he accepts visitors) I know there are plenty more I haven't mentioned are there any potters that are a good visit?
Stack of Ice Cream Bowls
This stack has 3 ice cream and GP bowls to show that they even stack nicely inside each other.
Single General purpose bowl with single stripe on it
My little boy's Monster, he keeps carrying it round with with him and tells me it is going to eat me. I am planning to do a post on specially on kids and clay and birthday parties.On another note in September I am planning a trip to the southern tip of the country, finally going to visit St Ives, and the trip will probably end 10th September at the Muchelney Pottery Open Day. There are other potters I would like to visit Paul Jessop, Doug Fitch. I would like to visit Svend Bayer, Nic Collins and Richard Batterham(If he accepts visitors) I know there are plenty more I haven't mentioned are there any potters that are a good visit?
22/01/2011
Preparing part 2
My Kiln is cooling down is about 150C and I am excited as I am testing a different white glaze that looks a lot richer, but I won't find out for a while, might have a sneak peak to see if I can spot one.
23/12/2010
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, we are taking both weekends off and of course Christmas Eve, which is my busiest baking day of the year. It has been a busy few weeks and I am gradually getting into the swing of things, but we have a long way to go.
We have a lot more activities in the New Year, we have a Kids and Clay club starting to get local children interested in Pottery. There are still lots of Pottery Lessons Available, and if you come and visit us we can teach you to make an animal or throw your own personal breakfast bowl and mug.
Our big mugs have been popular so another batch of those have been thrown as well as a smaller mug that is made with the same style in mind.
We have a lot more activities in the New Year, we have a Kids and Clay club starting to get local children interested in Pottery. There are still lots of Pottery Lessons Available, and if you come and visit us we can teach you to make an animal or throw your own personal breakfast bowl and mug.
Our big mugs have been popular so another batch of those have been thrown as well as a smaller mug that is made with the same style in mind.
Our new shop sign over one of our two arches and on the pictures below you can see how the shop now looks inside. With the cold weather things don't dry very fast in the shop and rarely become bone dry so they tend to dry out on my kitchen table at home for a day before being fired. The walls are still quite bare but we promised some space to a young photographer who is interested in selling some of his photographs, large ones of course. We also have some clocks etc that we are going to put up on the wall, I'm just doing a few more glaze tests.
02/05/2010
NPA- Northern Potters
I finally got around to joining the NPA and got my card through this week, hopefully this will help me along the way.
I have been busy making but none of it has reached the kiln for a bisque firing as the 1st and second years get priority over the kilns until they have finished so I just have to be patient and wait my turn, they leave this week I think then I have pretty much got to get all my glazing done, set out the show and then get back to making so then I can have enough stock s then I have a head start.Anthea is on an Annie Peaker course yesterday and today, so I spent the day touring the Lake District and managed to get to 4 galleries and 4 potters studios. I really enjoyed talking to James Hake who is an amazing young potter from Cumbria who gave me some amazing advice, definitely someone I will visit again and when I have enough money I would buy some of his work for the studio.
Setting off again soon to see how much more we can see today
25/04/2010
On the wheel again
Well I have back at Uni this week, and I haven't really had time to sit down and make just one form as I have to throw everything I need for my show by this next Friday ideally so then I can glaze it and work on my display for the show as it all has to be set up by May 21st, once the show is set up I can spend a day at a time throwing the things I need to sell this summer.
I was so busy trimming and cleaning on Friday which was the only day we had the camera at Uni, it was just a couple of quick shots, I will try harder this next week to get the shots I want down to a T. As the University seems to have run out of stoneware I couldn't spend my time merely making big object, I do however have two different sorts of white stoneware clay from Valentine Clays I think it is the Arctic White and Porcelain White and have 25kgs if each
Three cereal bowls, I dropped the middle one and accidently destroyed it after this shot, this week it feels like I have done pairs of everything but the tea cup and I think I have 5 of those as I had thrown 7 and two of them weren't good enough so they went straight to the reclaim.
Small fruit bowl, I did throw quite a few of these large bowls and platters, the problem is even in the big kiln there is only so much space inbetween the props on each shelf, especially as the shelves are the same size as the small gas kiln, you can just fit 4 towers if them in.
Just a few mugs, I liked the way these turned out, still need a lot more practice with handles, I think as soon as I get time I will have to throw a cylinder this size and attach as many handles as I can to it, I managed the handles on my tea cups easily as I don't feel as if I am going to drop them every time I pick them up, but with these mug I just can't get a comfortable grip on them.
Thankfully I can use the University's facilities until the degree show is finished, so I will be ordering more clay and getting to work big time, no more experimenting for a while, just getting my forms down and done.
I was so busy trimming and cleaning on Friday which was the only day we had the camera at Uni, it was just a couple of quick shots, I will try harder this next week to get the shots I want down to a T. As the University seems to have run out of stoneware I couldn't spend my time merely making big object, I do however have two different sorts of white stoneware clay from Valentine Clays I think it is the Arctic White and Porcelain White and have 25kgs if each
Three cereal bowls, I dropped the middle one and accidently destroyed it after this shot, this week it feels like I have done pairs of everything but the tea cup and I think I have 5 of those as I had thrown 7 and two of them weren't good enough so they went straight to the reclaim.
Small fruit bowl, I did throw quite a few of these large bowls and platters, the problem is even in the big kiln there is only so much space inbetween the props on each shelf, especially as the shelves are the same size as the small gas kiln, you can just fit 4 towers if them in.
Just a few mugs, I liked the way these turned out, still need a lot more practice with handles, I think as soon as I get time I will have to throw a cylinder this size and attach as many handles as I can to it, I managed the handles on my tea cups easily as I don't feel as if I am going to drop them every time I pick them up, but with these mug I just can't get a comfortable grip on them.Thankfully I can use the University's facilities until the degree show is finished, so I will be ordering more clay and getting to work big time, no more experimenting for a while, just getting my forms down and done.
26/03/2010
My Range As It Stands
Well I was told by my business studies tutor that I had to take pictures of all my range as it stands right now. I took the pictures with my wife's camera and without the black base, I'm not entirely happy with the results but I want to put them up to start getting everything in order for the degree show and starting the business.
My teacup, I made saucers for these yesterday I just need to trim and fire them(and make more teacups) the handle is just big enough for one finger to fit through, I really love these and can't wait to make more. About 250grams of clay
This is my Coffee cup it is quite narrow to drink out of, handle needs a little refinement. 300grams
This is much wider than the coffee cup and is about the size of a normal mug and is so known as my medium mug. 400grams
My big mug, 1 kilo of clay so is much bigger than the rest of the mugs and probably holds more than all concerned. This is the status of the mug after my tuition from Kevin Millward. Before the tuition the rim was just straight from the normal cup but he advised me that a rim like this was easier to drink from especially from such a large vessel. These size of mugs are most popular amongst students.
Tea light holds are only about 100grams of clay and are good at filling the gaps in a reduction kiln, I have plenty of them.
Soup Bowls with handles, these are 600grams, I have a lot of these as I thought they would be very commercially viable, my business studies tutor and head of course agree. Though I have been asked to make either a lid or a side plate for these, I will probably go with the side plate option as the bowls aren't all the same size so I would have to make a lot of various sizes and cross my fingers.
Other straight sided bowls, though this one is only slightly bigger than the soup bowl, it is actually 800gram of clay and has much thicker walls so then it could go in the oven.
Two of my bigger platters finally here for you to see, they are 2 kilos of clay and were made before Christmas, though I did throw some yesterday as my mark has finally come so I can stamp them and hope they are good enough for my show. My throwing of these has improved but yesterday I was throwing bigger ones from 6 kilos of clay and it was hard going with that much clay.
My first teapot, unfortunately I can't remember what weight went into this after seeing a demo on teapots, I prefer the top to be an in the pot as the lids for the sort with an internal gallery are easier to make the right size than the almost tea light holder that will have to go on top of this.
I have a few more different bits but then are either green or biscuit. I only have 5 working weeks to get everything done for the show, then 3 weeks where I have to furiously create so then I have enough stock for the summer and hopefully to buy a gas kiln from the proceeds (and some training to go with it. I need to take some measurements of these so then there is a little more idea of scale.
My teacup, I made saucers for these yesterday I just need to trim and fire them(and make more teacups) the handle is just big enough for one finger to fit through, I really love these and can't wait to make more. About 250grams of clay
This is my Coffee cup it is quite narrow to drink out of, handle needs a little refinement. 300grams
This is much wider than the coffee cup and is about the size of a normal mug and is so known as my medium mug. 400grams
My big mug, 1 kilo of clay so is much bigger than the rest of the mugs and probably holds more than all concerned. This is the status of the mug after my tuition from Kevin Millward. Before the tuition the rim was just straight from the normal cup but he advised me that a rim like this was easier to drink from especially from such a large vessel. These size of mugs are most popular amongst students.
Tea light holds are only about 100grams of clay and are good at filling the gaps in a reduction kiln, I have plenty of them.
Soup Bowls with handles, these are 600grams, I have a lot of these as I thought they would be very commercially viable, my business studies tutor and head of course agree. Though I have been asked to make either a lid or a side plate for these, I will probably go with the side plate option as the bowls aren't all the same size so I would have to make a lot of various sizes and cross my fingers.
Other straight sided bowls, though this one is only slightly bigger than the soup bowl, it is actually 800gram of clay and has much thicker walls so then it could go in the oven.
Two of my bigger platters finally here for you to see, they are 2 kilos of clay and were made before Christmas, though I did throw some yesterday as my mark has finally come so I can stamp them and hope they are good enough for my show. My throwing of these has improved but yesterday I was throwing bigger ones from 6 kilos of clay and it was hard going with that much clay.
My first teapot, unfortunately I can't remember what weight went into this after seeing a demo on teapots, I prefer the top to be an in the pot as the lids for the sort with an internal gallery are easier to make the right size than the almost tea light holder that will have to go on top of this.I have a few more different bits but then are either green or biscuit. I only have 5 working weeks to get everything done for the show, then 3 weeks where I have to furiously create so then I have enough stock for the summer and hopefully to buy a gas kiln from the proceeds (and some training to go with it. I need to take some measurements of these so then there is a little more idea of scale.
16/03/2010
Finally the time is here
The time has finally come, today I unloaded the kiln, I underestimated how long this would take me, especially with taking lots of pictures added in to the mix.
The technician had already moved all the pieces that weren't mine from the top shelves which helped speed things up. But I basically emptied the kiln myself apart from the top level, it is really satisfying doing so much for this firing myself.
This is all a large portion of what came out as it was hard to get everything in one shot as there was so much. I had lots of questions as emptied, the most common of which was "what did you do to make the different colours?" Well the blue is Cobalt Carbonate and the red/brown is Iron oxide, the speckles are because of the lack of oxygen in the kiln as it fires.
I had three ruined pots today, two were because of clay/bat wash falling into the bowl such as this above, it has fused with the glaze and the pot itself.
The third pot that was broken had split through the base, I have been told that there wasn't enough compression when I was forming the base, but that bit has already been covered in my latest tuition. For such a large kiln I don't think a failure of 3 pots is so bad at my stage, as I had a firing last year where I lost every pot places in the kiln.
One of my soup bowls and large mugs, this was my favourite large mug from the firing, and I did it after tuition from Kevin Millward, I just need to go back to the wheel and make a good couple of dozen of these so then I have some to choose from for my final show, still need more practice with the handles.
Some of the different size mugs/teacups I have been working on over the last few weeks, still trying to decide which size I want for my farmers market range.
Looking for some concept shots to go on my business cards / on various design sites that I am planning on joining over the next few weeks such as Design Initiatives.
Just trying to create some interesting shapes, colours and tones
These are what the tea light holders look like right now, all grouped together showing that scale that sometimes pots need an object to show scale.
This is my favourite item from the firing, it has just the right blue to green ratio on the cobalt and the textures just seem to have run slightly, it is such an interesting pot up close. I have actually brought it home to show people as an example of my work.
I have a slight oversight on the platters I forgot to take some overall shots of them and I only have detailed shots, so I will get some more photos on Thursday. I do have plenty more photos to upload and talk about later.
Joseph
The technician had already moved all the pieces that weren't mine from the top shelves which helped speed things up. But I basically emptied the kiln myself apart from the top level, it is really satisfying doing so much for this firing myself.
This is all a large portion of what came out as it was hard to get everything in one shot as there was so much. I had lots of questions as emptied, the most common of which was "what did you do to make the different colours?" Well the blue is Cobalt Carbonate and the red/brown is Iron oxide, the speckles are because of the lack of oxygen in the kiln as it fires.
I had three ruined pots today, two were because of clay/bat wash falling into the bowl such as this above, it has fused with the glaze and the pot itself.
The third pot that was broken had split through the base, I have been told that there wasn't enough compression when I was forming the base, but that bit has already been covered in my latest tuition. For such a large kiln I don't think a failure of 3 pots is so bad at my stage, as I had a firing last year where I lost every pot places in the kiln.
One of my soup bowls and large mugs, this was my favourite large mug from the firing, and I did it after tuition from Kevin Millward, I just need to go back to the wheel and make a good couple of dozen of these so then I have some to choose from for my final show, still need more practice with the handles.
Some of the different size mugs/teacups I have been working on over the last few weeks, still trying to decide which size I want for my farmers market range.
Looking for some concept shots to go on my business cards / on various design sites that I am planning on joining over the next few weeks such as Design Initiatives.
Just trying to create some interesting shapes, colours and tones
These are what the tea light holders look like right now, all grouped together showing that scale that sometimes pots need an object to show scale.
This is my favourite item from the firing, it has just the right blue to green ratio on the cobalt and the textures just seem to have run slightly, it is such an interesting pot up close. I have actually brought it home to show people as an example of my work.I have a slight oversight on the platters I forgot to take some overall shots of them and I only have detailed shots, so I will get some more photos on Thursday. I do have plenty more photos to upload and talk about later.
Joseph
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