tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28813296319408580482024-03-14T02:29:02.316-07:00Ozone Louise CeramicsOzone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-1364678891941791092017-02-20T12:26:00.000-08:002017-02-20T12:26:08.202-08:00Brand new ruins<br />
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The first photos of finished work are usually taken on top of the washing machine. The kiln is near it, and it's a great place to set warm work while I figure out where it goes next.<br />
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I put fireplaces or shines in a few of the ruins, so I also made them some little dishes and cups to abandon as well. <br />
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Over on the work bench, new herds are beginning to gather. I'm doing Silicon Valley Open Studios in May, and I need a few more herds than i have. They're fun to make, but very (very) time consuming.<br />
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I paint each spot of underglaze twice, bisque, and paint them all again before glazing and re-firing to cone 10. And yes, they're freehand. <br />
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There are also some new sheep herds in progress, but they are a photo for another day. Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-4375567230300685872017-01-02T16:00:00.001-08:002017-01-02T16:00:56.677-08:00Fitting, in a way<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello there, neglected blogspot of mine! It's a new year and I'm full of good intentions. That seems to have translated into getting into the studio and making things that have been on my mind.<br />
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Here we have some small stone huts, which are in ruins. I'm still making one a day, and expect to continue with that until I'm sure what they're really about. <br />
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I think they're about the effort we put into creating things. Safe spaces. Shelter. Refuge. Reputation. Relationships. Anything, really. Those things all need to be maintained, or they crumble and go away. These shelters are no longer safe places to be. <br />
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I started with rounded "stones, as might be found near a river. Worn smooth by the water before being selected as building blocks.<br />
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Moving on, the stones are naturally split to flat, but have a lot of crumbling inclusions. Weather is not kind to these structures without care and maintenance. <br />
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Some of the ruins have small shrines included. There is no one around to tell us what they were for, or why they were left behind.<br />
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I made some miniature dishes for the shrine on this one, but they didn't make it into this photo. <br />
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I've also rolled out some mixed clay bodies to make the multi-colored stones for the next few ruined huts. <br />
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I managed to get a bisque firing going after running a candle kiln last night. Soon we'll know how these huts take their glazes.<br />
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Not a bad start to the new year, which apparently started in late December 2016 this year rather than January 2017.<br />
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<br />Perhaps the ruins are telling me not to neglect the things that matter in my life. Don't give up on important efforts. And stop neglecting the blogspot!Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-70362174524164205902015-11-12T16:08:00.000-08:002015-11-12T16:08:12.668-08:00Show!I've been working really hard and getting ready for my first California show with new work. I'll be taking Vertical Herds, which play with the idea of fitting in, safety in conformity. At the same time, there is some individuality going on.<br />
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A few close ups. Here are some fish herds (I know, I know, just go with the herd thing), and some elephants. The elephants just joined this party a few days ago. <br />
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These giraffes nearly didn't exist. They presented dozens of really hairy technical problems. I have loads of failed pots that cannot be sold. Each one takes 5-15 hours of painting because every spot has to be painted three times or they just look bad. I really hope these go to homes that love them.<br />
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Zebras. Still a lot of painting, but not quite as many headaches. <br />
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A long shot of the contenders, waiting to be priced and packed up for transport. <br />
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These are so much fun to make. I call them Crackpots. Sodium silicate and stencils with coloured slips. <br />
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Come along to Art in Clay at the Lucie Stern Community Center in Palo Alto this weekend if you get a chance. 14-15 November 2015, 10am-5pm. Admission is free! So is parking!Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-64199541141870962902014-11-12T15:46:00.002-08:002014-11-13T08:05:19.743-08:00ExpandingI made some pots at Higher Fire, for that is the studio Child and I chose to join. I was pretty torn, but he was clear that he felt he could create there, and, well. Reduction. Who can resist those copper reds?<br />
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I have my coloured porcelain slips that I wanted to test on the local clays. I have a few new texture tools. I have a pint of sodium silicate. Off we go!<br />
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I'm afraid all the photos in this post are pots in their greenware state. That's because none of my pots have made it past the greenware state yet.<br />
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This one is pink and orange slips on Black Mountain clay: <br />
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Yellow and teal slips on Black Mountain clay:<br />
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Blue and green in back, purple and yellow in front. Both Black Mountain clay:<br />
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I was going to go in and trim those, but Child got ill and I thought I had better stay close to home. Here I've switched to B-Mix. I had some cardboard shapes cut out already, so I am testing the sodium silicate and slip combo with a broomstick pot and a slab pot. Here they are with shapes, slips, and sodium silicate, just waiting to be dry enough for processing. <br />
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The pink and red one got touch-dry first. <br />
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A light roll starts the cracking and reveals the shapes. The making of these shapes is the best use for Child's empty cereal boxes.<br />
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Expanded yet more with increasingly large dowels. Because I'm rolling from the inside, the cracks are not getting deep here. They compress under the pressure of rolling against the table. <br />
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Going oval. Because I can. <br />
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Off come the cut-outs. Because there was no sodium silicate under, there are no cracks under. There is also an exposed spreading area around the cut outs with minimal cracking. <br />
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A rolled slab for the base. I set the pot on it and traced around with a needle tool. <br />
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Turned over, a little water, and tapped (pounded) into place with a rolling pin. <br />
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I do like feet on things. Three feet are unlikely to let the pot wobble. <br />
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I do like a rustic look to my pots. But you knew that. <br />
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Just waiting to dry now. Once fired, I will be ready in case anyone sends me Valentine's Day flowers. Gotta plan ahead. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah, but what about the rolled out one? Slips are blue, teal, and chrome green. I rolled in all directions to keep the cracks from being overly directional. The cardboard cutouts split when soaked for so long.</td></tr>
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I did take off as much of the underneath layer as I could because no one wants to smell that burn. But it's only a tiny bit left now. <br />
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Foot rails, and a bit of drying while inverted over a water bottle. <br />
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Now it's just got to dry and be fired. I think I'll glaze this one all clear so it can be used for food. Celery sticks. Cupcakes. Something. <br />
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And that is the state of the expanding clay as of today. Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-87607745031604518292014-01-25T06:13:00.000-08:002014-01-25T06:13:20.606-08:00Silence?Why the months of silence? I'm packing up the pottery, the house, the whole life, and plan to resurface in California some time later this year. <br />
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I do have a few projects left to do here. Even more to do once I get over there. Patience, please. It's not over, just in transition.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-15834632298165259202013-04-10T06:21:00.000-07:002013-05-03T04:08:08.965-07:00It's a learning thing: clay gun hollow dies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All of this is very seat of the pants and trying to learn a little each time. This is just my first attempt. Mistakes were made. Successes were had.<br />
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My main concern was whether the dies would stand up to the pressure of the plunger. I used Valentine Clays B17C-grogged stoneware because it's what I happened to be using for a different project at the time. I rolled out slabs and marked circles with the end of the clay gun barrel. I cut slightly larger than the mark to account for the shrinkage of the clay.<br />
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The inner shape is set back a bit, not flush with the outer ring of the die. The clay has to go around the supports inside and re-join on the other side, so this, I hope, will give it a better chance of doing that.<br />
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I'd just reclaimed some terra cotta that was stored outside in a bin for a few years. Not the nicest of clays, still sporting a few small bits of leylandii. Some of the failures might have been down to that.<br />
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I started to push the handle, and waited for the loud crack. Or the quiet crack. No crack. Just clay coming out in a tube.<br />
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Several tubes, in fact. Not long tubes because this is a clay gun, not a giant motor-driven extruder. It only holds a small amount of clay.<br />
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And lookie there. Intact.<br />
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The successful die poses here with its progeny. <br />
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So I tried the square one. Alas, the fit was not so good. It was hard to screw the end cap back onto the barrel and have it stay attached during extrusion. It took some force to wedge the die down into the cap, and the cap blocked the corners a bit. I found that it had shifted a little (in firing no doubt, I couldn't have made it wrong, right?) so that one of the four sides was thinner than the others. Live and learn.<br />
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But it wasn't a total loss. The die was hard to get out again, but it did come out with a little gentle leverage from the front. <br />
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Once removed, the square could be trued up again with minimal effort. The die seems completely unharmed, and taught me some of the things to avoid when I try again.<br />
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There is one more die I made, but I'm going to try it another day. Possibly with nicer clay.<br />
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Several months ago, I wrote about paperclay patches, mostly on greenware. In that piece, I made mention of using paperclay patches on bisqued work as well, but didn't go into much detail. <br />
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Young artists do need to learn that sometimes things happen, sometimes things don't work out, but this was not to be one of those times. I seized the opportunity to both save their work and show you what I was talking about.<br />
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The flat man (something from some computer game I know nothing about) had a fairly clean break right across the eyes. I dipped both halves of the break in the paperclay slip and let them dry slightly before smoothing over with more of the slip. The man is pretty delicate at this stage, so I put him on a cardboard bat to minimize stress on the join until he got into the kiln. I treated the join on both sides, letting it dry a bit, then adding more as the drying slip receded into the hairline gap.<br />
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Also a casualty of the shattered piece was a turtle. Both the front arms came off, and none too cleanly. <br />
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Again, both sides dipped in the slip, then smoothed over the outside a few times to make the join stronger.<br />
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Although I have occasionally used this patch technique on my own work and glazed the pieces straight away, I decided to re-bisque these. The creations of children and beginners gets special handling over here. Raw joins are just too delicate for beginning glazers. <br />
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After being re-fired, the joins are vaguely visible to those who are looking for them, but the kid who made this had no idea it had broken until I told her later, after the finished, glazed piece was in her hands. <br />
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Both the turtle and the flat man benefit from being fairly rustic in their intended surface. It is possible that my joins here are actually too smooth be part of the original textures.Perhaps there is enough natural variation that I was able to get away with it. <br />
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Here is the back of flat man's face. The join is a bit more obvious here if you're looking for it, but it was not a problem for the artist, who was glad it had been given a second chance.<br />
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Once glazed, both pieces had the ring of an intact pot to them when struck with a metal tool, not the dull thud of a cracked piece. <br />
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This is lovely. I would never look at this and wonder if it had ever been shattered into multiple pieces. Our little secret.<br />
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I can't promise this technique will always work. Clay can be fickle. There are times, though, that it's worth having this trick in your arsenal, just in case there are no other options. Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-60481814061791678932012-10-20T03:00:00.000-07:002013-05-03T04:09:23.131-07:00All Saints for ChristmasI've just had my acceptance notice for this:<br />
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16th December.</i><br />
<i>Opening times: Mondays to Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.</i><br />
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There are usually 70-80 potters participating in this, so it's a great chance to see a broad sampling of what clay can do.<br />
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I'm heading out to the studio now to work on a commission. I wonder if any new ideas will happen while I'm out there.<br />
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Is there anything you especially want to see from me when you visit this show? At the Ickworth Wood Fair, one woman told me she had gone to the show last year to top up her game piece collection, but I wasn't participating that time. Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-3628022754048056932012-08-16T07:02:00.000-07:002013-05-03T04:09:23.126-07:00Dragonfly<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY2PbknfX4ONe7QuytjcaOHC6-sHNxqCaRstvi2uJpECKYdmcPzr6B2LMq11MmWz3AQIrw1cdUBeq2UYxlCYHgziFQVjlQ8Ha_T907kh2uS8mjK_bA-rMpsRwkQn_4vBOynam_f11puW4O/s1600/DSCF0247e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY2PbknfX4ONe7QuytjcaOHC6-sHNxqCaRstvi2uJpECKYdmcPzr6B2LMq11MmWz3AQIrw1cdUBeq2UYxlCYHgziFQVjlQ8Ha_T907kh2uS8mjK_bA-rMpsRwkQn_4vBOynam_f11puW4O/s400/DSCF0247e.jpg" width="300" /></a>This morning we drove the the Wayland Dragonfly Gallery in Watton, Norfolk to drop off some Face Plates for an upcoming show. Everyone was very nice and helpful in providing what I needed to make it all look good.<br />
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So now if you can't make it to the exhibition, you know what of mine you're missing, and if you see something here that you must have, you know where to buy it!<br />
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The plates on the lowest surface are in the vicinity of 11" round. The small one at the top is about 6.5" round. <br />
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It looked like some really interesting paintings were going up in other areas. Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-4015907398720936552012-08-14T03:08:00.001-07:002013-05-03T04:09:23.128-07:00Wayland Dragonfly Summer Exhibition<br />
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I'll have some face plates in this exhibition. It should be really good. Stop by if you get the chance. Please RSVP to the email shown above if you're going to the preview, otherwise, just drop in during the two weeks. More information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Wayland-Dragonfly-Gallery/198905453480213 Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-8762963035769693232012-07-16T01:40:00.003-07:002012-07-16T01:40:52.673-07:00For completeness of the Face Plate experience<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I don't think I ever showed you these. Most of them came out of the kiln quite close to the start of Cambridge Open Studios, when I had other things on my mind. No decals, just glaze and faces.<br />
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Peacock blue with black on porcelain.<br />
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Brown with multi-coloured splashes on V9G.<br />
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Mostly V9G, except the green one in the upper right corner. That's porcelain.<br />
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These were actually in the very first batch. Both V9G using glaze to accent the faces.<br />
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The yellow flags of Cambridge Open Studios have come in for 2012. The doors are closed, and clean up has begun. If you couldn't make it, I'm sorry to have missed you, but let me see if I can re-create the experience for you in some small part. </div>
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I am originally from the US, and although I have been here for 13 years and now also hold British citizenship, I have failed to gain any sort of accent at all. I've lived a lot of places in Left-Pondia, mostly across the middle (IL, NJ, CA, IN, UT, and HI just for a while). Most recently I lived in San Francisco, and would like to claim it, but I don't know if 10 years is enough to make me from there. Thirteen years is not enough to make me from here.</div>
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No, I bought vintage decals from a shut down pottery up north. I like the "found" quality of them. I also alter my mugs and such with "found" texture items, so I see this as consistent with my style. I think the work is still pretty distinctively mine. I might make my own decals in the future, but I'm waiting for a clear vision of what they should be.</div>
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Yes, I do. It started with making coloured porcelain beads, which I intended to sell to crafters, but I made a few samples to work out any problems, and never quite stopped. I'm now playing around a bit with copper and glass as well.</div>
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Porcelain bead necklaces. I add other beads to add shine and take some of the weight out. My beads are still the main feature, I think.<br />
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More necklaces and some bracelets. Short on detail here, but you get the general idea.<br />
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I found this funky wire tree with grabby clip things, and snapped it up to make an earring tree. <br />
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I still sell beads. I even sold some today.<br />
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Thanks to everyone who came out to talk to me and see what I do. I really appreciate that you braved the weather, and came out to our little village just to see me. <br />
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There are still two weekends left of Cambridge Open Studios 2012. I'm going to go see other studios. I hope you go out and visit some too, if you are able.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-66912430214976046472012-07-07T16:17:00.002-07:002013-05-03T04:09:23.133-07:00Cambridge Open Studios 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First things first. I had to unload the kiln. New butter dishes made of Audrey Blackman porcelain. They're impressed with lace doilies I've acquired over the past few months, all soft-slab hand-built. I love throwing on the wheel, but sometimes hand building is the only thing that will do. <br />
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On this side of the room is older work. Crackpots, game pieces, porcelain jars, platters, fat folk, and so on.<br />
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This is in our conservatory, which was a building site 4 days ago. It's a big improvement over the tent I've used in previous years. Torrential rains are a lot more tolerable in solid construction.<br />
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See that white door through the window on the left of the image? That's the door to the actual studio, which as you can see, is open. I did do some jewellery in the display room, so it was a working studio today too.<br />
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I expected low attendance for the first day because there is so much going on in town. The Olympic torch came through, there was something on Parker's Piece, and it seems like every village school had some sort of fete. I wasn't disappointed with my low expectations, but had a really nice time talking to the people who did come.<br />
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I'd worked so hard to get this already despite the heavy rains this year not allowing work to dry and the builders having delays that it was almost nice to have the enforced inactivity. I'm all rested up now, though, so some Sunday visitors will see a perkier me. <br />
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I'm open again on Sunday from 11-6, and the same again next Saturday and Sunday (14-15 July). I'm number 97 in your guide book.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-78053316359754242462012-07-03T16:36:00.003-07:002013-05-03T04:09:23.135-07:00Getting ready<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cambridge Open Studios weekend one is in just a few days. The little people are ready.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-57942298215685749012012-07-02T08:54:00.003-07:002012-07-02T08:54:36.611-07:00Face plates with decals<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBAjrOxCcddihGpxP84YAK_iPhqV0EvPIESh72JOnX_mQ780l3Eu6RCzQz9vIzJV-U4XxHEo2FjPvBuhCEhng55StM6AWu1JiFKD9591_rVCHF4ARY5SIpjGqwPsbPdgplcLBx49Y0CX1/s1600/DSCF0155.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBAjrOxCcddihGpxP84YAK_iPhqV0EvPIESh72JOnX_mQ780l3Eu6RCzQz9vIzJV-U4XxHEo2FjPvBuhCEhng55StM6AWu1JiFKD9591_rVCHF4ARY5SIpjGqwPsbPdgplcLBx49Y0CX1/s320/DSCF0155.JPG" width="320" /></a>Fresh out of the kiln! <br />
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The decals I use are vintage, acquired from a shut down pottery in the north of England. They used to be the sort of thing that would grace commemorative mugs and dinnerware. No more. I showed some of my work to the people I got the decals from, and they said they didn't mind the sacrilege. Their time is over, and they are glad the decals can have another life.<br />
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I know it's hard to gauge size here. They range from about 4 inches to about 12 inches across.<br />
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V9G is a clay body with quite an earthy look to it. I don't think it's the sort of thing that decals normally go on, but I'm not trying to make mass market items here. Each one is its own piece. Here, a decal of a scene of Victorian lovers has shattered, as have the flowers that surround them.<br />
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The faces are starting to form groups now. Us against them.<br />
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These Victorian lovers get to stay whole. Small.<br />
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V9G clay, a doily impressed when the slay was wet, dark glaze down in the grooves, clear glaze over it, and decals that coordinate with the browns. Medium.<br />
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Another in the same process. Alas, some throw lines from before the doily went on remain, and look like someone set a mug there. This one might not be for sale, but I like it other than the circle in the middle.<br />
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V9G, clear, brown, and green glazes. A trio of birds in the middle. Are they grouses? Medium sized.<br />
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Green and clear glazes, trying to give the flowers a greener garden to grow in. Small.<br />
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Same as above, but perhaps a more tidy garden. Small.<br />
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The tiniest one so far, about 4 inches across.<br />
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Large.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-50395483938936952972012-06-28T11:28:00.001-07:002012-06-28T12:04:15.156-07:00Cup of light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a large porcelain mug, impressed with a doily and a wood working tool, and glazed with a dark brown glaze. When I put the lamp over the top, light leaks right through the clay. It's a shame we don't drink cups of light because this would be a really pretty way to do it.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-1510623445331049422012-06-24T13:43:00.000-07:002012-06-25T02:52:32.532-07:00Paper Clay Patches<br />
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I tend to think that once I know something about ceramics, it is a thing everyone knows and is obvious. My own knowledge and experience seem routine to me, so it's always a surprise when I make a comment about a process and the people I'm talking to don't know about it. This happened quite recently with mention of paper clay patches, so I'm going to explain it here. If you already know about it and this is all obvious, you can skip this.<br />
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Clay shrinks as it dries, and it shrinks during firing. Sometimes if you are joining two bits of clay and they are at different stages in the drying process, they will pull apart as drying continues. I started using paper clay slip for joining parts because of this. The paper in the clay tempers the different shrinkage and lets the bond take place successfully. So that's a good thing, but that's not what I want to talk about. Paper clay can also be used to fill cracks and mend breaks at the greenware or bisque stages.<br />
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I'm using mugs as an example here because I happen to be making mugs, and I had some sprung handles. It's been really hard to keep the moisture content right with the heavy rains we've been having. My studio is very rustic and influenced by the weather. The timing was off with a few of these handles, so this is what happened. I love to make mugs, and I want each mug to be special to the person who uses it, so I don't mind slaking down failed mugs and trying again, but for the purpose of illustration, I'm going to show you some repairs. If you have some work you've been labouring over for months on end and it gets a crack or break, you might want to try this technique to save it rather than melt it down. <br />
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This clay is Valentine Clays Royale porcelain. I assume it should go without saying, but use the same paper clay as the original clay body for this sort of thing.<br />
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I worked the paper clay into the crack, making sure to get it all the way down into the bottom, then building up. Because the two edges of the crack no longer line up, I built the paper clay up over the two edges and a bit higher all around. It doesn't have to look pretty at this stage, and might even be better if it doesn't because the patch can sink down into the gap a little. The excess clay can compensate for this.<br />
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Into the bisque kiln with all the others for a normal firing. I did candle, but didn't otherwise give this a long drying time prior to firing.<br />
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In the mean time, I noticed a small crack in a pot that had just come out of the previous bisque firing. This is an occasional side effect of the way I alter my pots. Again, I might have just thrown this out, but I was thinking of you and your need to know, so went ahead with the patch. It's made of a different clay, Valentine Clays V9G. I didn't have any V9G paper clay on hand, so I made some up.<br />
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Next I glopped in a bunch of the squidgy V9G from the bucket of wet clay waiting to be reclaimed, then pulverized it together with the paper so it's nice and smooth and consistent throughout the batch.<br />
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And it's good to go. Be sure to label both lid and container if you're using more than one type of clay in your studio.<br />
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Next, I work the paper clay into the crack. It could subside into the crack a little, so let it dry for a short time and then cover it with a little more. Neatness does count here because this is going to get glazed without another bisque firing. I have, in the past, reattached little broken off bits with this paper clay on bisque technique, and it's been fine. It might not always be fine, but if your piece has become un-fine without trying this, you have nothing to lose and possibly something to gain.<br />
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I use silicon carbide embedded griddle pads, made for cleaning flat grills in restaurants. Sandpaper would do just as well, and is probably easier to find. I also use a metal tool to ping the easy bumps off. The handle repair is just going to take a little extra rubbing with that pad. Bisqueware sands easily, paperclay bisque doubly so. It's sort of like firm chalk.<br />
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Once done, it looks much like any of my handles. The repair is not obvious unless you're really looking for it. Maybe not even then.<br />
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And now glazing. The patched mug gets the same treatment as all the others. Can you spot it? It's one of the smaller ones.<br />
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<br />Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-52223401689872320652012-06-23T13:55:00.002-07:002012-07-09T04:14:37.487-07:00Summer Begins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's officially summer now, and the rain occasionally lets up. Saturday gave me several consecutive hours of non-rain. Not warm, not sunny, but not rain. Plenty of wind, though. I was able to set up outdoors for some super-splashy glazing of the sort I avoid doing in the studio when wet work is around. And wet work is around because it rains all the time and nothing ever dries.<br />
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But now the sliding blocks have done some sliding. I glazed enough mugs and plates for two kiln loads, which ought to keep the kiln working until the wet work is bone dry, and can be bisque fired. After that, I can do glazing in the studio and not have to worry about harming work in progress.<br />
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Two weeks until my first day of Cambridge Open Studions 2012, and things are finally moving. And it's raining again, but that's all right. <br />
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If you got some not-rain today, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-88464580585468520542012-06-11T03:02:00.000-07:002012-06-11T03:02:51.560-07:00Thanks, nature!No images this time, I don't have anything at an interesting stage to show. There is a lot in the works, though, and in time I will share it with you. This is just a bit of a Monday morning ramble. <br />
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I think we all know clay comes from nature, but at my house, nature doesn't stop casting its vote until quite late in the process. <br />
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We've had a lot of rain this year. I'm not talking about warm and lovely raindrops falling on hot pavement, I'm talking about cold, muddy, windy weather that is always wet. My shoes are always wet. My dog is always wet. This changes the way I would have been working about now. In a normal year, I would have had the door to my tiny studio open to the back garden. Cats, a dog, and a boy child would have been wandering in and out, blissfully saying hello and checking on my progress before wandering away to do their own things again. But no. The door stays shut. I am acutely aware of the rain and wind doing their thing a few feet away because my studio door has big gaps above and below it, and even between some of the boards that make it up. We are still on winter process here. Nothing ever dries without artificially provided heat. I have to have the heat on in the studio, not for my own comfort (although I do quite like comfort), but for the functional purpose of getting work to leatherhard so it can be trimmed and altered.<br />
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Dave the Husband Creature hates that. He does not like to pay for heating. He has installed a program on his computer that monitors our electric usage. He knows when I have the heat on. He knows when I fire the kiln.<br />
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I got a new kiln from Northern Kilns last year. It's smart and peppy. It has a programmable controller. I set one of the programs to "candle kiln," which heats at the rate of 10c an hour up to 110c, which slowly drives the moisture out of the nearly dry pots. I think of this as my 95 litre summer. This is a vast improvement over my previous kilns which had minimal controls and considered any settings to be vague suggestions from a dottering old aunt.<br />
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My first kiln is at least as old as I am and has a simple 1-2-3 function. It takes a long time, but does a nice bisque firing. The lid weighs a ton, give or take, so I have to plant both feet firmly and open/close it with Olympic weightlifter moves. It will chug along happily at 1 or 2 or 3 until I tell it to do something different by turning the dial. It has no pyrometer and no thermocouple. I fire by eye. I can see when the air inside is orange. Not just the pots, the air has to be orange. Then I turn it off at the wall. I got it from an advert in Ad Trader when I first moved here.<br />
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My second kiln is rated to 1200c, which isn't really enough. I fire to 1300c in glaze firings. I do a little low fire work sometimes, so it could be good for that, but I really wasn't doing enough of it to justify having a whole kiln for it. Again, it's a 1-2-3 dial controlled thing, but at least has a thermocouple and temperature gauge, and allegedly shuts off when it reaches the temperature it's set to. Dave the Husband Creature is good with electricity, so he reverse wired it for me. He made it so that rather than have the controller stop the kiln when it gets to a certain mark, it will continue to fire while it is above the certain mark. I wholeheartedly recommend that you do NOT do this. Not only do fire bricks become conductive of electricity at a temperature higher than they are rated for, but it cracks the bricks. That kiln, my only front-loader, is another Ad Trader acquisition. We bought it from a woman whose husband had run off to Australia with some hussy, and she wanted her garage space back.<br />
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My third kiln (RIP) was a round top loader. It had a controller. I could control how fast it got hot by percentages. I could tell it when to turn off, and it would. It was like magic. Alas, it was not really meant for what I wanted it for, and over the course of 10 years I managed to kill it dead. It stopped being consistent with its percentages. It stopped turning off when it was supposed to. Its lid rusted to bits -- bits that had to be swept up, an unsavoury mix of rust chunks and crumbled ceramic fibre. It already had a lot of rust when I got it, and it was not shy about continuing to rust. Dave (tHC) made me a new lid from fire bricks. Heavy to lift, but not as bad as the first kiln's lid. Its banded together sides got loose and rickety. The floor fell out, so I put the whole thing up on a bed of fire bricks. I had to stay up all night or wake up at intervals to do a firing because the kiln no longer did what I said. And of course electricity costs less in the wee hours. You get the picture. That kiln came from a local artist when he moved away from sculpture to focus exclusively on painting. I did get an awful lot of use out of it, though. I think it's decidedly beyond salvage now, except perhaps the bricks.<br />
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So the new kiln was quite a luxury. So worth it. It does what I say. I program in what I would like it to do, and it just does it. After so many years of seat of the pants firings, this almost feels like cheating. Close the lid, turn on the power, select the program, press the button -- BOOP! --, come back the next day. No more seat of the pants. I got it when a relative died and left me a tiny amount of money, just enough for a new kiln. I exchanged emails with Northern a few times, and then had my kiln a few days later. It was magic. I scavenged so many old and broken down kilns, I never thought I would
buy a new one. Dragging home other people's obsolete dreams is a great
way to save thousands of pounds, and I have a live-in sparky to beat
life back into them for me. But you know, the struggle just got to be
too much, and I suddenly had that little bit of money to either fritter
away or do something meaningful with, so I went for the new one. And now I have a reliable 95 litre summer available to me. <br />
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As I type, the kiln is cooling from a bisque firing, and the studio shelves are full of mug bodies. I need to trim, alter, and put handles on them later today. I left the heat off so they might still be quite wet, but they're porcelain, which dries out quickly anyway. I have a lot to do, but you don't need to see more images of work in progress. I will save the camera for finished work in a few days.<br />
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I am resisting going out to the studio because it is cold and raining, but weather made clay and weather still gets a vote on how things go for it. The Met office says our rain today is at a warning level, but it's been raining for so long that I don't know it will make a lot of difference. We've been living in intermittent floodings with a side of drought warning for months now. <br />
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But yesterday was great. I had forgotten how helpful nature can be if it wants to. I had some work which was resisting drying despite my space heater. I considered putting in the house oven, but since it was emphatically NOT raining and the sky was conspicuously blue, I put the pots outside. They were actually ready for final processing inside two hours. Thanks, Nature!<br />
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<br />Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-76435662158056455722012-06-04T09:01:00.000-07:002012-06-04T09:03:50.701-07:00Leatherhard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know this will be a lot more interesting once the pieces come out of the glaze firing, but this is where we are, and I am in a sharing mood.<br />
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The first doily face plate got its foot ring and had the doily lifted out. <br />
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Sorry Tudors, I know we're not so very different but I just have to alter mugs unless they are explicitly for you. Which these are not. <br />
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While I did the feet, altering, and handles on the mugs, one more plate got nearly hard enough to trim. I shouldn't have pushed it. I'll leave the others for tomorrow. <br />
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Alas, it is cooler than it ought to be and also rainier than it ought to be, so I have to use the heater in the studio if I want anything to dry at all. This is not the June I was expecting. But it'll work out.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-58617204972012215872012-06-03T14:46:00.003-07:002012-06-03T14:48:26.077-07:00Chugging right along<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Continuing with various clay activities, I had a glaze firing. The face plates are still V9G. The one with the green on the faces is going to get flowery decals on it, and the green will help with the gardeny camouflage look. The people are made of Earthstone 50 - Crank, and are unglazed. The small plates are small indeed, probably only 5 or so inches across. <br />
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These just have a clear glaze, and will get decals on them. <br />
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This plate is growing on me. It's got a matte base glaze with shiny green streaks on the faces. <br />
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The people mostly stay buff, but sometimes go a bit toasty on their extremities. There's no planning for it, the kiln decides. <br />
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Back to wet work, I am doing a small batch of face plates with lace doilies pressed into the middles. <br />
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I'm going to leave the doilies on until the feet are trimmed, then I'll lift them out and wash them, ready to be used again. I get these from RETRoVERT, who source quality vintage items from around the county. Someone's Nana made these, and they ended up in boot sales or charity shops. I immortalize the work of the Nanas here. <br />
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Mugs. There have to be mugs. I will trim, alter, and handle these in the next day or two. I don't like to make them the same. I like each one to be its own special beverage event venue. <br />
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I think I might do a little more work in V9G, then do a studio scrub-down for the switch to porcelain.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-15658884813922931832012-05-21T14:57:00.000-07:002012-05-21T14:57:13.183-07:00How those Tudor-ish mugs turned out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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But in the mean time, I spent more time looking up Tudor mugs, and made a new batch with bigger feet. And higher handles. I can find examples for most shapes I like to do among Tudor mugs, but actually making them look Tudor was harder than I thought. I found some with a hint of green, which pleased me. I like my green glaze, and I felt I had permission to use it over my clear glaze.<br />
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I also dipped a few rims in my yellow glaze, which comes out anywhere from creamy white to dark orange, but rarely actually yellow. I got white. Subtle, but I think it works. <br />
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Brown is a bit classic, but still pleasing. <br />
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There was that one mug I felt I had to alter. I used all the colours from the Tudor mugs on it in my usual splashy style. <br />
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And I made some small ones, which were meant to be a joke on people who drop by and mock my large mugs, but as it turns out, they were wanted for Tudor children. So no joke.<br />
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They've been sent off to to the Tudors, except the one altered one. If any they come back, I'll have them at Cambridge Open Studios in July 2012.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-56042472943200123782012-05-07T14:16:00.001-07:002012-05-07T14:22:14.001-07:00Wet workI'm back in the studio, making making making. I'm throwing with Valentine Clays V9G at the moment. It's being very good for me. If I had more storage and drying space, I would be out there throwing still.<br />
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I have a commission for some Tudor-ish mugs to be used by a family of reenactors. The shape is already close to one I make, but the handles are higher and the footrings are bigger. At least some of the footrings are bigger. The Tudors, sadly for them, did not bash their mugs with interestingly textured objects, though. These are smooth in the name of semi-authenticity. Except for one. I couldn't resist. It wasn't quite the right shape anyway.<br />
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I made a large selection of sizes to suit adults and small children. They're in the bisque kiln now, and will be glazed this week, so soon we will know actual volumes represented here. I'm guessing the largest is nearly a litre.<br />
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Yes, I did make way too many. <br />
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Plates of various sizes are not going to stay so very platey. I let them set up a little bit, then I faced them.<br />
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With the last batch, I was careful to approximate even spacing, whether the plate had six or eight faces. This time I mostly threw that out the window and went with random placement, which came out mostly to look as evenly spaced as the last batch. But not on this one. <br />
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Those plates in front are small. I think the little batts they're on are 5 inches square. The ones in back are more of a meal size, but I don't know if anyone will actually be able to eat off these, what with all those faces scrutinizing the meal. <br />
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While I was waiting for things to dry, all out of space for more batts in the studio, I started making these small people. They're probably in the 3-6 inch range, although they will shrink when fired. They're made of ES-50 Crank clay from Valentine. I'm going to take them to 1300C and leave them unglazed. They'll take on a nice, toasty look. If they don't sell at Cambridge Open Studios, I'm going to bury some to confuse the archaeologists of the future. One of them is pre-sold though, so I have moderate hopes of homes for some of the others. I've made more since this photo, so I ought to be able to get some into appreciative homes AND bury some.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881329631940858048.post-35369851810374778822012-04-12T07:18:00.002-07:002012-04-12T07:40:13.370-07:00Face plates<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGatOidfupUNAmzk25tSX1YMgyPN8f73yKnAH_U3BQcR3dXgx0E5pjgUJtfFq7jjBW-PnDB9apYAeLCEelYOteI4Swvc7hJMVzfkRW4K5EC8xf3xCy7zfg2lKYuKEnkJprFKIzYpBvce8/s1600/DSC_5224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGatOidfupUNAmzk25tSX1YMgyPN8f73yKnAH_U3BQcR3dXgx0E5pjgUJtfFq7jjBW-PnDB9apYAeLCEelYOteI4Swvc7hJMVzfkRW4K5EC8xf3xCy7zfg2lKYuKEnkJprFKIzYpBvce8/s320/DSC_5224.jpg" width="320" /></a>Face plates are my latest thing. Faces pressing out of the rims, some obscured, some clear. <br />
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This one is about 6 inches round, yellow base glaze with brown faces.<br />
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Oh, decals are so much fun. Faces in the garden. This one is about 11-12 inches across.<br />
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Another small one. Brown base glaze with yellow faces, about 6 inches.<br />
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Close up of the Paparazzi plate. Charles and Diana sit innocently in the middle, pre-wedding.<br />
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Ten all together. I expect to be making more of these in the near future. So much fun! And it's always nice to have a small container to squirrel away small treasures in.Ozone Louise Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837364458864523543noreply@blogger.com0