Making Monday – porcelain pendants and buttons

I had great fun playing with porcelain before my classes finished – it takes patterns pressed into it really well because it is so fine in texture and the white body makes a great base for colour. These are my two favourite creations: an ivy leaf pendant coloured with a mixture of underglaze paints and [...]

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More buttons!

The kiln at the college has been broken for weeks but this week it was finally fixed so I have some new finished pieces to share. For now, have some stoneware and porcelain buttons. I also have a pile of porcelain leaf pendants to post but I want to put up pre- and post-final firing [...]

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Hey Knitters!

I made buttons! They are stoneware, glazed in Blues&Greens – the colour representation looks pretty good on my laptop screen but it’s foggy in Dundee today and not the best light for photography. I made these by pressing ivy leaves into rolled out clay and then cutting around them. There are 3 different leaf shapes, [...]

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