I finally got around to photographing the oil lamp I talked about making back in this post late last year. I didn’t want to post it before Christmas as it was a surprise gift for my partner but then I forgot about it until someone at my pottery class yesterday asked me if he had [...]
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Finished oil lamp
Posted in Ceramic techniques, new ideas, tagged ceramics, handmade, LARP accessories, oil lamp, replica historical ceramics on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leaf obsessed
Posted in Ceramic techniques, new ideas, Progress updates, tagged candle holder, ceramics, goblet, handmade, mask, modelled leaves on January 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Happy New Year! Hope 2011 is treating you all well so far. Pottery classes resumed at the college yesterday so I’m continuing with my latest obsession which is making things using pressed ivy leaves, which are handily still available despite there being snow on the ground around these parts. I realized that leaves actually chart [...]
Coilware
Posted in Ceramic techniques, Professional Potters, Vessels, tagged ceramics, coilware, David Wright, hand built, handmade, photographs, Professional Potters on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So finally, here is my coilware vase, lately referred to as the termite mound vase, in all its matt blue-grey glazed glory. Coilware is hand built using sausages of clay layered up and ‘glued’ with slip and then smoothed together. It’s an easy construction method to learn but getting a finished object that doesn’t look [...]
The rest of the raku (finally!)
Posted in Ceramic techniques, Progress updates, Vessels, tagged ceramics, handmade, raku on October 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I finally got around to photographing my favourite of the rest of the raku pieces I made before the summer. This little thrown pot is probably my favourite piece overall. I dipped the base in the white crackle glaze, the top in green glaze, and then dribbled several different coloured glazes down both the outside [...]
Raku
Posted in Ceramic techniques, Progress updates on April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
You are honoured today, two posts in one day! Now I’ve caught up on posting the rest of the stuff from my last module, I can tell you all about my new module – raku. Raku was originally a Japanese technique but it has been co-opted by Western potters these days. It involves bisque firing [...]
Techniques – slip decorating
Posted in Ceramic techniques, tagged handmade, pottery, slip decoration on April 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not the best photo I’m afraid, but this illustrates various slip decorating techniques: Inlaying – this involves carving a design into leather-hard clay, painting slip over it and then scraping the excess off the surface to leave sharp lines (top left tile). This tile also features sponge printing (in yellow) and you may just be [...]
Decorative plaques
Posted in Ceramic techniques, Progress updates on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve finally got around to photographing the wall plaques I made using a plaster press mould, featuring the design I took from the Irish cross back in September. The one on the left is decorated with velvet underglazes and then has a coat of transparent glaze over the top, while the lefthand one features the [...]
New finished pieces, finally!
Posted in Ceramic techniques, Progress updates, Vessels, tagged bowl, ceramics, finished pieces, hand built, hand painted, handmade, vase on February 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I have been very poor at keeping this blog up to date but it doesn’t help that this is the first time since last summer that I have had new finished pieces to show off! Making plaster moulds and then casting from them is a slow process with things needing to dry in between, so [...]
