My Peru bottle is done. It has been almost all semester but it is finished! That is one thing I have learned about ceramics, everything takes a long long time. Hand building is time consuming, the piece drying is time consuming, and if your glazes are detail guess what? You got it, time consuming! But I still love ceramics and will enjoy doing three-dimensional pieces for the rest of my life. I also love the fact that I will never have to have a “normal” job if I don’t want. Ah, my love of art.
The part that was supposed to be black didn't turn out that way. The red terra sigillata that we mixed the black with needed more black than what was called for.
The Hepworth inspired piece, the second project one is done. I must say that that after all the difficulty I have had with this piece, I didn’t think I would ever like it! But now that it is painted I actually kind of do like it.
This piece broke in the process of moving it to the kiln. Since that happened and all the terrible cracks (I did not like the clay I was using), I had to glue it back together with Elmer’s glue and some grog mix. Grog? Well that is pulverized fired clay. So it is fine particles fired.
Looks great though right? You can’t really tell where it broke so that is all I need.
My coral reef is all put together. I need to add the texture to the Christmas tree worm and the tubes. The springing (all the texture for the reef part) took the longest. But I am quit happy with it.
I will be even happier with it if after it is bisque fired the glazes all come out bright and pretty. That will be this week some time.
Recently I have learned to throw. Now you see other people do it and they make it look so easy. Unfortunately, it is not in any way shape or form easy to learn. The assignment is to throw 6 cylinders. Four of them need to be 6 inches after shrinkage, and 2 of them being 8 inches after shrinkage. I currently have 2 over 6 inches. They are due tomorrow. So guess what I am about to go do? Yep, got to go throw down on the wheel!
The part that was supposed to be black didn't turn out that way. The red terra sigillata that we mixed the black with needed more black than what was called for.
The Hepworth inspired piece, the second project one is done. I must say that that after all the difficulty I have had with this piece, I didn’t think I would ever like it! But now that it is painted I actually kind of do like it.
This piece broke in the process of moving it to the kiln. Since that happened and all the terrible cracks (I did not like the clay I was using), I had to glue it back together with Elmer’s glue and some grog mix. Grog? Well that is pulverized fired clay. So it is fine particles fired.
Looks great though right? You can’t really tell where it broke so that is all I need.
My coral reef is all put together. I need to add the texture to the Christmas tree worm and the tubes. The springing (all the texture for the reef part) took the longest. But I am quit happy with it.
I will be even happier with it if after it is bisque fired the glazes all come out bright and pretty. That will be this week some time.
Recently I have learned to throw. Now you see other people do it and they make it look so easy. Unfortunately, it is not in any way shape or form easy to learn. The assignment is to throw 6 cylinders. Four of them need to be 6 inches after shrinkage, and 2 of them being 8 inches after shrinkage. I currently have 2 over 6 inches. They are due tomorrow. So guess what I am about to go do? Yep, got to go throw down on the wheel!
