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So, here is an update on what I have been doing for the last 12 weeks or so. All painted and waiting to dry.
The black lines are mishima and then the colour is painted in the lines. I believe the colours will turn out true to what they are now (I know the yellow and red does) since the yellow, red, and purple are cone 6. I’m only worried about the black, since it is cone 06 and tends to blister at cone 6 when it is put on thickly.The motif is from a reference book of textiles, from Persian rugs.
I’m not going to glaze them on the outside, but I am on the inside. Probably just a random white, or maybe our white slightly translucent crackle, just because it illuminates the insides of pots.
The finished arrangement will have the tallest in the middle, with 2 of the shorter ones on each side. I know they don’t match height wise, but I will set it up to make it work. There are extra lids, and that one extra pot, just in case. Hopefully nothing will happen to them in the firings, or with careless people in the studio.
Snot Mugs
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Snot mugs, pretty much. Not happy with this glazing. There was some crawling, and it did not turn out how my other attempts did. Too green, instead of white blue colour.
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Stretched vase with porcelain and coloured slips.
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A stretched vase I made a while ago.
Terracotta and cone 6 stoneware mix, porcelain (cone 6) and coloured slips.
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I love the fumming from the wadding on the bottom :D
Cone 10 porcelain, wood fired. Thrown on the wheal and altered. No glaze on the outside, white on the inside.
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Finally, my wood fired piece.
Cone 10 porcelain, thrown on the wheal and alters. No glaze on the outside, just the ash. Leech White on the inside.
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So, a few weekends ago I had the opportunity to go to Sheridan collage (in oakville, ontario) to attend and have a piece in their woodfiring! It was a great experience, and I had such a good time.
Such a friendly community there. Me and a friend got to sit in on their first year critics, were invited to their end of year pot luck, and got to take a shift firing Scarlet, their woodfire kiln :) Unfortunately I didn’t get to hear it “roar” since I was in one of the first shifts trying to get it up to around 700 f, and the next day the wood was so dry they finished hours early and I wasn’t there to see it. Of well, next year I plan to!
Bruce Cochrane and Huge (the technician at Sheridan) are in the photos. I didn’t get any more photos of the event, since I was busy with it, but after they bricked up, they threw sparkles in the slurry on the bricks. Haha!
Just something funny. Genevieve in one of our kilns at school after loading one of her big vases! (over 60cm).
A “test tile”. This is a purple cone 06 underglaze that turns out a blue colour, and then cone 06 black, and cone 6 red and yellow. This vase blew up a little, so I put some glaze on it (which isn’t shown in the picture) to see what a transparent and translucent white crackle glaze would look like with the 06 purple under it, and ititdidn’t look very good, so I’ve bought a cone 6 purple from PSH that does stay purple haha.
So stressed out, just decorating the bigger versions now in their leatherhard-ish state, and I’ve decided to switch to mishima with the black lines (which isn’t shown in this picture). Unfortunately the 06 black blisters when it’s thick, so hopefully with improved skills in mishima, I can reduce the underglaze I’ve applied and it’s wont blister all to hell. Fingers crossed!
