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Planning
So this isn’t going to be an in-depth blog entry, as I spent the time I should have been doing that on sitting down and planning. You see things might be changing at the pottery soon and there will be … Continue reading
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Tagged ceramics, goals, learning, making, mindmapping, self promotion, youtube
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Slip decorating: the wobbly pot way
You may remember my post on Saggars and some of my results. I really want to talk a bit more how these wobbly pots are made.
Posted in experimental firing, Learning, Slip
Tagged ceramics, clay, earthenware, film making, hands on thinking, making, Michael Kline, porcelain, pots, pottery, red fox pottery, Slip, stoneware, terracotta, The Potters Cast, wobbly, wonky, wonky pots, youtube, Zed Lightheart
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More Saggars
So this week I made some prototype saggar formers and saggars, I mixed my own clay with sawdust, grog from broken pots and some molochite for added strength. Now if I didn’t have a deadline I would let them dry … Continue reading
Posted in experimental firing, Learning, Making, Saggar, Slip
Tagged bud vase, ceramics, clay, cockles, feldspar, homemade, homemade clay, horses tail, making, mares tail, Patrica Shone, porcelain, pottery, Saggar, seashells, seaweed, silcia, Slip, stoneware, terracotta, vase, volcanic, wobbly, wonky pots
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Tommy Kane – An Excuse to Draw
So recently I picked up Tommy Kane’s An Excuse to Draw, as a treat for myself as I reached 400 days in a row sketching, and painting. I showed the start of the process on instagram but the randomness of … Continue reading
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Tagged book, cross hatching, crosshatching, development, disability, drawing, hands on thinking, making, not ceramics, reflection, sketchbook, tommy kane
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What’s in the Saggar?
For the uninitiated, I should explain what a Saggar is, it is a big piece of pottery that smaller pottery is sealed in. Traditionally this was done in Stoke on Trent to protect the pottery from the coal fire that … Continue reading
Posted in Eperiemental firing, Film, Learning, Research, Saggar, Slip
Tagged blackcurrant, ceramics, charcoal, clay, making, pottery, red fox pottery, Saggar, seaweed, Slip, terracotta, tiles, touching, wonky pots, youtube
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