Hello all,
The purpose of this blog is to share my many experiments with clay. Yet, the blog in itself is an experimentation. I have never really done anything like this before, so please be patient with me.
Over the past couple of years I have been using Facebook as a kind of Blog. I have been posting my ceramic pieces and glazes as they unfold rather sporadically. However, over the past few months this experimentation has become more and more intense and even scientific. I'm excited to see where it is going next.
Okay, enough of being elusive about what exactly my experiments include. Basically I've been exploring throwing and what I can do with the process. However, since there was really no one around to teach me exactly what I wanted to do, I used YouTube and my own trial and error to develop my own shapes. Basically this includes double-walled (some triple), closed forms, and all kinds of thrown and altered pieces. A couple of weeks ago, my teacher, Richard Shaw, offered me a book on George Ore (The Mad Potter of Biloxi) and told me to check him out. I realized upon studying the imaged of this book that for the last two years I have been going the direction of George Ore, without even knowing who he was. All Richard had to say to this was, "Just make sure you don't go mad too."
The other form of experimentation I explore has to do with cone 6 oxidation glazes. I started my education in a studio that fired cone 10 reduction and fell in love with those types of results. When I started working with cone 6 electric firing I really wanted to duplicate reduction results. A real triumph occurred last week when Richard looked at a couple of glaze tests I had made and asked me, "How did you get these to reduce?" I was practically giddy. "I didn't," I said, "it's elecrtic fire, oxidation, cone 6." In the past few days I consolidated all my notebooks of glaze recipes into a FileMaker Pro database.
Let the Blogging Begin...
The purpose of this blog is to share my many experiments with clay. Yet, the blog in itself is an experimentation. I have never really done anything like this before, so please be patient with me.
Over the past couple of years I have been using Facebook as a kind of Blog. I have been posting my ceramic pieces and glazes as they unfold rather sporadically. However, over the past few months this experimentation has become more and more intense and even scientific. I'm excited to see where it is going next.
Okay, enough of being elusive about what exactly my experiments include. Basically I've been exploring throwing and what I can do with the process. However, since there was really no one around to teach me exactly what I wanted to do, I used YouTube and my own trial and error to develop my own shapes. Basically this includes double-walled (some triple), closed forms, and all kinds of thrown and altered pieces. A couple of weeks ago, my teacher, Richard Shaw, offered me a book on George Ore (The Mad Potter of Biloxi) and told me to check him out. I realized upon studying the imaged of this book that for the last two years I have been going the direction of George Ore, without even knowing who he was. All Richard had to say to this was, "Just make sure you don't go mad too."
The other form of experimentation I explore has to do with cone 6 oxidation glazes. I started my education in a studio that fired cone 10 reduction and fell in love with those types of results. When I started working with cone 6 electric firing I really wanted to duplicate reduction results. A real triumph occurred last week when Richard looked at a couple of glaze tests I had made and asked me, "How did you get these to reduce?" I was practically giddy. "I didn't," I said, "it's elecrtic fire, oxidation, cone 6." In the past few days I consolidated all my notebooks of glaze recipes into a FileMaker Pro database.
Let the Blogging Begin...
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