loving the accidental qualities

of these pieces…

color testing — part 1

ok so after screwing around and not measuring for a while, i decided i should do some color tests.  each of these is 200 g of porcelain paper clay with (for oxides) 1 2 or 5% additions and (for mason stains) 15% addition.  these are unfired.  fired to come..

new ideas brewing

Got an amazing book called Additions to Clay Bodies by Kathleen Standen.  Finally getting some time to try a few of her techniques in the studio.  So fun and fascinating and different — making porcelain clay, adding colors, paper fibers, pearlite other combustibles, glass, metal, anything really…

after firing

before firing

crown of thorns

crater

Blue rail

crown of thorns

after firing

before firing

 

beginning

old pot with lavender and afternoon sun

mom’s lace doilies

After dad died and we had to clean out the house and bring mom here, we had all her lace doilies and didn’t know what to do with them.  Studio!  these dishes are made by pressing her doilies into clay..

small porcelain vases

tried the peter pincus method.  very rudimentary on my part but interesting.  his work is pretty incredible.  You throw a pot on the wheel, cast it whole in plaster, then cut the mold on a band saw.  use colored slip to paint the mold on the inside.  The mold was a bit of a mess, but i did get it to work…

Delivery in place

Thank you Mary B!

And now for something completely different!

Been wanting to try some techniques i’ve been reading about — adding combustibles, glass, old scrap metal, vermiculite into clay and firing away.  Pretty awesome result with cone 6 porcelain slip…

Pulling pots from every nook and cranny of studio and house

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omg — where did all this work come from?