MacCraft n 2d3d

Some new ceramics pieces

2011-12-13T16:24:00.001-05:00

Still continuing with some texture plates and small cups. Plates are combination of white and black slip and green mason stains and added native clays.

Cups are brushed and fingered with white slip and clear glaze on the inside and lip. Outside is stained with oxides over the slip.

A few photo posts today

2011-12-10T10:28:00.000-05:00

This week has been an interesting early morning walk time, cell phone picture.

And a few of my abstracts, first of a red maple along the walk to the office and the second a fuzzy weed outside the pottery studio.

Weekend and this weeks clayventures

2011-11-22T15:33:00.000-05:00

This weekend was a slow day of sales but had a good time with potter friends. I had a couple of tables.

And this week finished 3 new wall disks and hung them in my office to see how it would look.

And a photo of my new "clay family" of creatures for sculptural fun : )

Great Firing today

2011-11-11T17:48:00.000-05:00

Got some new stuff today. Big new textures and direction.
Working on disk fired with black glaze and white porcelian and local field clays. Will be a part of four wall pieces

And a new textures for a vase, texture from the root of a wisteria.

And a clay family of texture guys.

and a Vase with light brushed black and white slip over brown body clay.

A few photos from a gallery show

2011-10-31T17:11:00.000-04:00

Was in a gallery show in downtown Monroe several weeks ago and the location was an old upstairs abandoned building.
The textures and colors were exceptional.
And one Block away the outside of a building was clad in various types of stone....textures too.

Photography activity last several weeks

2011-10-05T10:01:00.000-04:00

The last several weeks have been slow on the clay/ceramics but have been active in the photo front in several different areas.

More seed pod photos in macro. The colors and textures, I just can not stop taking photos...

Atalaya Festival in coastal SC took some ceiling shots of the old structure, liked the color /textures

And a walk in early morning (6-7am) on park trail.

runners ahead

empty trail ahead

surprise bloom along trail

New photo this morning of seed pods

2011-09-19T14:19:00.000-04:00

Was at my morning walk at the local park and noticed in mostly dark (6AM) conditions some "flowers" on a nearby tree. I grabbed a few and got to office to study and photo them. Very interesting color and textures. They will eventually turn parchment color and be mostly translucent when dry.

Kiln opening 9.10

2011-09-11T17:55:00.000-04:00

Got some new ceramics out this weekend and was pleased with some not others...par for the course.

First is my little cup with riverside grit clay and a brush of porcelain slurry, glazed black and wiped mostly off.

Some home clay with wiped black glaze outside.

Home clay with matt burnished and oxide rubbed interior and a copperish matt glaze over tabs of clay over the vessel outside

and last, a favorite little tray server with a thick body, layers of alternatinglight and dark home clay and a small area burnished center top with clear glaze over the burnished area, notice the sheep head appeared.

Last kiln opening

2011-09-02T10:14:00.000-04:00

My last firing of random things brought out a little different look. Commercial clay this time. Riverside grit. Works well with my hand built items. Nice brown color lots of texture.

A little clay, a little photography from the weekend

2011-08-16T11:01:00.000-04:00

My mix of home clays and processed NC white clay into a rustic set. No glaze.

Installation Bamboo by Kawana at Charlotte MM of Art

Dancers there.

Nature's glaze

Days photos

2011-08-10T11:28:00.000-04:00

New focus photos for the week

2011-07-29T16:30:00.000-04:00

Clay abstract kiln fired

2011-07-19T09:26:00.000-04:00

My clay abstract tile has been fire. I have a combination of indigenous red clays and iron and copper oxides and a small clear glaze over the green(cooper oxide) "river" in the vertical area. Fired cone 6. See the before final firing .

On the coast.

2011-07-12T14:53:00.000-04:00

A few pictures from the early morning walks. Absracts and early morning sun in the clouds.

Friday notes

2011-07-08T10:28:00.000-04:00

Yesterday i had 19 items come out of bisk ...a record for me. The one I have photoed here is a wall plaque (it cracked in loading but...) that will go directly to cone 6 fire with minor changes. and the leaf photo is same leaf as the Monday 27th leaf after drying. Great color and texture. The last photo is just a B/W shot of a simple 3 leaf composition.

detail

New fire and stuff

2011-07-05T16:34:00.000-04:00

A new firing of the platter shown on May 23rd as letterhard clay. Amazing what a little heat will do to clays, no glaze here.

And a little storm debris (sycamore bark) trying to figure out how it is to become art???

A photo flower for the day.

2011-06-30T12:54:00.000-04:00

Just a little yellow summer photo for the day.

this and that today

2011-06-27T12:24:00.000-04:00

From last bisk fire, a new clay abstract tile. And from the camera a leaf I saw at the dumpster today.

Mixed bag of images

2011-06-13T18:36:00.000-04:00

This is a bunch of activity of mine over the last few days...
first is a special ceramic project.

Second is a rain storm with a different look

Third a look to the sky

And finally a clay absract fired (or first firing)

Last couple days at studio

2011-06-08T09:41:00.000-04:00

Been working on textures as usual with my native clays. The first here is a base white clay and over that I have used 3 local clays I have processed into an abstract "tile". the second is a bowl with 2 clays inside and a heavy texture outside I will treat after bisk firing with oxides. The third is just a simple heavy bowl with predominate red local clay mixed.

Detail

Rim

Side

Charleston trip pictures

2011-05-30T10:56:00.000-04:00

Just as few pictures of this weekend to Charleston.

Univ of Charleston

Bethel UMC window abstractions

A few new fired pieces

2011-05-26T11:01:00.000-04:00

A new cup, a blend of clays and home clays roughly blended and matt white glaze inside thinly applied and applied and wiped off on the outside. And a platter with applied imprint of Palm Sunday's palm with applied white and brown glaze partly wiped off over a blue green glaze in the imprint.

Weekend clay and burnishing

2011-05-23T12:00:00.000-04:00

Home clay and a mix with a commercial brown worked well this weekend on a 12" bowl that is drying now reading for fire. Made some plaques with a brown clay base and added 3 home clay thick slips for color sculpting.

And a tall thin vase waiting for glaze.

and a plaques in progress.

Just don't pass them by in the spring

2011-05-20T11:26:00.001-04:00

Magnolias are just too powerful to not photograph them, to try to capture them for the minute. They last such a short time.

Some new cups today

2011-05-17T15:29:00.001-04:00

Got some cups back from cone 6 firing I had made (see May 2nd) The home clay fires a nice rich red from a weak yellow biege clay out of the ground. The inside and lip is a rich dark coffee gloss glaze.

And to put these in context with some of my recent home clay mixes, see the cups in the upper left:

Clay and Photos from the week.

2011-05-16T16:56:00.000-04:00

A few small pieces from the weekend to be glazed.

And

A large piece, baptismal font to be fired.

and

photos, fungi and magnolias

Little phots and little clay tiles

2011-05-11T13:45:00.000-04:00

Some of the past weeks photos of our flowers, beach sea oats and experimental tile piece, bisk fired yard clays to a white clay tile base.

Weekend ceramics

2011-05-02T10:11:00.000-04:00

Made a "set" of 4 tumblers or cups and two tall 12 and 14" vases. Tumblers are a surface applied local clays and burnished. (cell phone photos, sorry)

New adventure this morning

2011-04-29T10:31:00.000-04:00

My first hour this morning was doing good deeds, for the natural world anyway. Before leaving I was checking our strawberry and blueberry plants with bird netting and found a 4' blacksnake in the net. carefully unwrapped him and let him go. Do snakes eat stawberries???

Clay things today

2011-04-26T09:42:00.000-04:00

Did some clay work last week and this weekend. Glazed 5 or 6 pieces and made 4 others. my favorite was a new server with three feet. (With cell phone camera, sorry,) White and home native clays blended and burnished. will be fired with no glaze.

My photos for the day

2011-04-14T17:14:00.000-04:00

Enjoy.

Leaves

butterfly

garlic head

New photos , old tree.

2011-04-07T17:10:00.000-04:00

I can not resist taking photos of this tree, same as last year blog. "Princess Tree (or Empress Tree) is a native plant of China that was introduced into the U.S. in the mid 1800’s. Is more commonly seen along roadsides and disturbed sites throughout our region. Although still planted as an ornamental tree and used for reclamation of mine sites, it is considered an invasive species." Mine grows near the dumpster at the office.

Highlands adventure

2011-04-06T11:26:00.000-04:00

A little photo liberties to one of my shots to give feeling/mystery to the highlands that a digital clear focus misses.

New Photo, old rock

2011-03-28T09:49:00.000-04:00

I have earlier photo of this before but this is a little better capture of the old man. He lives in this natural rock formation. It was rainy and wet yesterday, he shows better in the weather.

Mystery Photos from this morning

2011-03-27T15:59:00.000-04:00

In the early morning light I captured these mysteries from the dark.

New Photos from long weekend break

2011-03-21T12:18:00.000-04:00

Some pollen shots...doesn't everyone photo pollen?

Lilly pad, in pollen.

Nice bloom

Sunrise at Surfside, SC my abstract

Sunrise at Surfside.

Wall clay Art

2011-03-15T12:57:00.001-04:00

More of my local clay sun dried expressions. No color added just native NC dirt! First two, at left I used a mud dauber nest (upside down) and clays and second at right inspired by tsunami. Working together or as separates.

9 x 11 with 3 clays

New bisk fire and new photos

2011-03-10T11:31:00.000-05:00

Some home clays and porcelain mix pieces from previous several blogs to see the clays darken with bisk fire temperature. Will continue to darken in cone 10!

And some new photos....

Burnished bowl from yesterdays blog

2011-03-02T13:48:00.001-05:00

A little rubbing with my magic black Scottish rock on leather hard clay.

Favorite time of the year.

2011-03-01T14:01:00.000-05:00

Just a little photo of the preview of the next several months in the yard, first to bloom

And some unfinished business from this past weekend, layered clays into a bowl.

Weekend clay work

2011-02-28T11:35:00.002-05:00

Continued working on my home clays, this is a porcelain and three home clay combination. No kiln yet, no glazing will be done when fired. This layering of clays and hammered wood mallet compressed method creates a marbled natural effect. Sorry for the bad camera work, cell phone in shop!

Detail

Couple of photos from the beach last weekend.

2011-02-25T10:09:00.000-05:00

Sand and sea oats

Natural eroding sand along a waterway, architectural dreamscape.

Today, I am humbled.

2011-02-15T13:11:00.000-05:00

Amanda Henderson told me several weeks ago she was going to do an artist bio on me and she sent me today the results, at Amanda Henderson. Thank you, thank you.

My friend Amanda Henderson, in NY is a knitwear designer and good friend of my son Will McLeod who is also a fashion designer and his Blog site. Both these very talented individuals do clothing design as an artistic statement. And do it extremely well

To get a little idea of her great talent, one of her blog pages shows this very well, and the many glowing NY reviews of her work, "lost pieces."

Just a little more clay painting.

2011-02-15T09:33:00.001-05:00

Worked this weekend with a quick small sun baked clay"painting" this one I added a little black stove ash on top.

What a difference a dry day makes

2011-02-10T09:57:00.000-05:00

This is a followup on the previous blog. After about day and half of sun dried clay the results are wonderful IF you don't mind cracks. No color added!

Detail of lower right panel

Back to some clay work

2011-02-06T10:29:00.000-05:00

This is a continued study of my local home clays I have found and working on a 8 x8 wood backing. This is before drying and the welcomed cracks of sunbaked thin native clay. This will not be fired.

New stuff from the abstract world of Phototextures

2011-02-05T15:39:00.000-05:00

just a new way of looking at leaves... yes those are leaves. What you think?

into my world of Seed pods and begonia

2011-01-31T17:51:00.000-05:00

3 new photos for the day of dry dead leaves and seeds...

Ok so I've gone snow crazy!

2011-01-14T11:01:00.000-05:00

a couple of egg photos on ice.

New textures for today

2011-01-13T12:02:00.000-05:00

Photo yesterday evening of backyard with a little PS.

Just some of my dried photo elements

My latest 2d clay "paintings"

Winter storm photos

2011-01-10T13:22:00.000-05:00

Three boiled eggs still warm:

and the snow in the back yard:

New work in 2011

2011-01-10T13:17:00.000-05:00

New slab prep for home clay in progress. I blend and work with dirt I have dug locally to use mostly without glaze.

After much wood pallet pounding to a slab to the bowl shap:

And other work with the mixed clay, a small sculpture study:

and some other work in progress, all hand work from coil or pinch methods:

Mint Hill Arts Opening for Fire and Fiber

2011-01-07T13:04:00.000-05:00

Mint Hill Arts is having their opening reception tonight from 7PM to 9PM for the new and expanded Fire and Fiber exhibition. As I left my ceramics pieces I got a quick look at the tables piled high before being displayed in their new gallery. Lots of great fabric art and ceramics for viewing from the Charlotte/Mint Hill area and beyond.. They will be on display till Feb. 3rd, 11AM to 3PM. Mint Hill Arts

Also a plug for the winter show in Greensboro for 2010 NC local artists...went by Wednesday and I was very impressed. Must have been 120-130 artists from NC.,thru Jan 15th. Green Hill Center for NC Art (Greensboro, ArtQuest, Art Gallery, Art Sales)

"No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

2011-01-03T16:31:00.000-05:00

from this past year of a magnolia bloom...the cold and white snow will yield to the spring, patience...

Great Christmas and New Year wishes

2010-12-27T10:29:00.000-05:00

I have included a few "arty" shots from Christmas morning and after. A little Christmas tree fireworks and night flash of snow. Have a great holiday time.

My first win at ceramics.

2010-12-12T10:02:00.001-05:00

Thanks to Mint Hil Arts winter juried show, they had the biggest show ever with I think they said 175 works. I was lucky enought to win 2nd in my class of 3D art. This was my favorite piece. No glaze just hand dug clay and porcellain layered about 16-18 times. Fired cone 10

Photo pepper Fun

2010-12-09T17:14:00.001-05:00

Saved some dried peppers and had some photoshop fun today.

More leaves

2010-11-30T10:04:00.001-05:00

I can't get away from the natural beauty of new dried dead leaves or seed pods. Took these yesterday evening. Not sure of the tree, just one I see on my morning walk.

"An Artful Affair" Saturday Night

2010-11-15T12:25:00.000-05:00

Enjoyed being invited to participate with "An Artful Affair" Saturday night by a great group of potters Terra4m. Thanks guys.First couple of shots of my displys of photography and ceramics. And a couple of other shots that night... John, Becky,Elaine and Kim. Details more to come later.

My Photos and 2d sun dry clay "Paintings"

My Ceramics

John

Becky

Elaine

Kim

New gas firing unloaded

2010-11-04T19:13:00.000-04:00

A few of my newest home native clay blended pieces, no glaze, just dirt at its best. First flower vase, second server. Fired at cone 10.

A new direction to explore

2010-10-18T11:47:00.000-04:00

Trying my hand at "painting with clay" We have lots of different clays naturally around this area of NC and I have collected 3 natural bodies and have applied those to rigid masonite boards for some surface treatments. If this works larger may be in the future. I have never painted anything before so here goes...

A little photo motion fun today

2010-09-28T15:28:00.000-04:00

A littler glass, a little motion, and a v e r y slow shutter.

Try humbled by nature

2010-09-13T15:11:00.000-04:00

This is one of my "nature is better" blogs. Look at the first before loooking at the second please!

THis is a mud dauber jug, beleive me I will be checking this guy out. Look out clayworks he will put you out of business!

To give a little scale to this. . . It is hollow, with a very nice neck and lip. Found 4-5 today around office windows. No photoshop here!

three new vases

2010-08-13T08:53:00.000-04:00

Home work, center vases is home clay body to be fired in cone 10 and outside left and right is l.loafers clay body coated with home iron rich slurry partly rubbed off to be fired cone 5.

New photo of flowers

2010-08-03T09:09:00.000-04:00

I am working on new ways of looking and capturing an image. Trying to create an abstract image but give the moving "clarity" of the single shot camera. This one is a keeper, probably go for sale soon. If interested let me know.

New from Gas Kiln Cone 10 and dry veg. leaf

2010-07-22T12:14:00.000-04:00

Got back the first of the week a new vase made from porcelain clay, some extremely thin. Love the "skin" glaze effect much like textures on smooth tree trunk (dwarf jap. maple in background). Approx. 14" ht.

And for those of you who are into macro grunge, this vegatable leaf, cucumber, shows why they are a little prickly when picking.

Earth, sand and water

2010-07-05T10:57:00.000-04:00

Study in texture, again. Small flow of watergoing to the ocean against the ledge of sand and footprints beyond. Love the warm 6AM colors of the sun.

New photos of spring seeds

2010-06-30T16:04:00.000-04:00

I found these seed pods this weekend and saved them for the camera. Enjoy

Memorial Day at the coast

2010-06-02T09:28:00.000-04:00

Enjoyed a early morning walk with camera and with bag for collecting seaweed for barrel fire work in the future. Got both!

New Work, Spinal Axis

2010-05-24T11:17:00.001-04:00

Trying new form again, wall triptych about 9"ht. x 30" mixed clay with iron oxide and copper over white slip.

Photos and clay

2010-05-11T13:18:00.000-04:00

Just a few shots of some things you often walk past but should take the time to "make the art"

This first one is a picture of pollen on a man made pond, water moving with the breeze.

This is one of my fav. photo plants red poker plant. Love the geometry.

Got back my cone 5 slab vessel of heavy textured hand mix clay, showing detail of layering.

More photos today

2010-04-20T17:28:00.000-04:00

Can not help but keep the camera out on days of spring. First is a yellow rose outside my clay studio at home. The second are two dead leaves from a plant on my front desk that had a traslucent quality that "required" themselves to be captured by backlighting.

Photo... Tree identification day

2010-04-15T10:42:00.000-04:00

Last night we had a discussion of things that inspire us in ceramics... On the way into the office this morning I had my camera and captured these details from a tree just off from the dumpster. . . a volunteer. No one planted this wonder and most of the year it is unnoticeable.

The first photo, the seed pod puts most of my desires in glazing to shame...
The second shows what wonders nature has for us if we just look-closely...
The third is the tree in bloom with the seed pods at the bottom of the shot...
Click to open with detail.
What is the tree?

Easter Morning

2010-04-06T10:49:00.000-04:00

Don't usually "publish" such bad photos (cell phone) but I did not have my real camera to capture this amazing sunrise service on the beach Easter Morning. The local Lutheran church has been having a service for the past 9 years in the sand... This year no waves were on the ocean and a beauty of a sunrise with 800 to 1000 I would guess.

New pieces fired and not.

2010-03-30T12:44:00.000-04:00

Got this one back last week and liked the texture and colors, First I used a crackle glaze and with oxides. 2" slabs (4) of clay cut away to create the form. Cone 5

This one is slab built using my great new mallet by David Ulschmid with www.wispwoods.blogspot.com. Not fired yet, very thin side walls.
Porcelain cone 5 clay and banding wheel hand turned with rib to give very soft surface treatment (unusual for me.)

Winter at the coast

2010-03-24T09:15:00.000-04:00

On our last visit to the SC coast I caught this one from an inlet fishing spot in last light of the day.

Natures Architecture

2010-03-09T12:56:00.000-05:00

Just having a little fun at lunch playing architecture with some mud dauber nests I have fired over the last year. These insects have habitat down to a science...I fired some natural, some with glaze, and some with iron oxides.

A little 2d today

2010-02-23T09:46:00.000-05:00

On way to pick up a pizza Sunday night and the sky opened out. Took the photo with my cell phone and abstracted in photoshop a little...

New sculpture out of kiln

2010-02-07T11:44:00.000-05:00

Got the fired results from the kiln Sat. morning. Iron and copper oxide on the slab built piece, approx 12" ht. Clear glaze and red under glaze at the raw edges. Hand rubbed the oxides to give non uniform look.

Winter in the cold

2010-02-01T13:14:00.000-05:00

We had a small snow with cold temp's this weekend and this is a result of walking thru the woods.

New sculpture for January

2010-02-01T12:57:00.000-05:00

3 views of new work, to be bisk fired and then glazed. Approx 12" tall. My object was to make a sculptural hollow form and then cut away part of the body. I liked it when the clay started to open up but not quite thru the body completely leaving a ragged edge as oppossed to the smooth curved outside form.

New blog of interest

2010-01-21T10:20:00.000-05:00

My son has now started his own blog, those of you who know him and have been following his fashion design activities...http://willmcleod.blogspot.com

Trip to the Farmers Market Photos

2010-01-02T14:42:00.000-05:00

A great 28 degree trip to the market today! Great stuff from the earth. Had to do some photo fun with it before the table. Took a little artistic liberty with them. Have never seen cauliflower like this or the color of these carrots.

New to the family of porcelain and home clay

2009-12-28T12:21:00.005-05:00

Family of three, latest is top left.
This is the latest of my free form bowls with porcelain 5 clay mixed/layered with my home clays, biggest so far at about 12" across. No glaze or glass this time just natural colors of clay.

Clays were hand folded many times together and rolled to sheet before hand forming the bowl and exposing the rim textures and some carving. Fired at cone 5.

New Stuff, different direction exploring

2009-11-16T16:48:00.001-05:00

P5 clay with transparent glazes, a little more finished than usual for me.

Leaves and Gray

2009-10-30T13:55:00.002-04:00

This is a great season to be outside with a camera. Parking lot with a moldy concrete wall gives that opportunity for seasonal contrasts.

If I only had the talent

2009-10-28T17:54:00.002-04:00

Saw this on the way to office this morning, It is JUST a rock in with a bunch of old past prime roses and weeds! I would give ...to be able to create this in clay!!!

New Mixed Clay Vessels From Cone 5

2009-10-26T15:11:00.002-04:00

New developments from porcelain 5 and home clays: free form vessel whose side walls I have tried to give feelings from looking at the photos I see of the national park canyon walls of water and stone textured thru the ages. No glaze but...

Inside the vessel is a reflecting glass pond.
The second Vessel is same clay but only surface treated with home clay complete with rocks...
And glass reflecting pool

More Photos

2009-10-14T13:20:00.004-04:00

Flowers from the market, first a straight crop of large basket of flowers. Second is same shot on the dark side of Photoshop editing. I like them both for different reasons.

A litttle photo work

2009-10-07T17:13:00.003-04:00

I haven't posted any photography work lately, so... A little shot I did of a wall of brick with vines and accented the textures, of course, in Photoshop.

New Class, new directions

2009-10-06T11:42:00.003-04:00

Great new class with Julie at Clayworks. I told her I was not into the wheel now and she shared a great book that inspired me to this new handbuilt form with P5 clay. I have a second similar form with my mixing fun with 50% P5 and 50% home clay yellow. More of a purposeful cracking surfaces and breaking the edges-"grunge" pottery... More on that later.

Picture not great, cell phone pict. sorry.

Cone 10 Kiln opening for bottle and vase

2009-10-01T17:30:00.002-04:00

Got my procelain and home clay-gray back today. great surface texture, no glaze.

Also got the blended clay, with course slice cut sides, outside with some iron oxide and glazed the inside with white.

New fire for the home clay mix

2009-09-30T09:44:00.003-04:00

Got back some new gas fire this weekend. This is a 50:50 blend of home clay, yellow with porcelain, cone 10 with white inside glaze. Outside is no glaze.

This detail shot shows some of the rock (center upper left) intentionally left in the clay for texture, did not burn out...no attempt to fully blend the clays, wonderful heavy textured/marbled hand built piece.
Small vessel with clay mix and slurry of porcelain on surface and some texture added, black glaze 90% wiped clean on surface and clear inside glaze

New texture vessels

2009-09-01T12:49:00.003-04:00

Latest batch of my home gray clay with 50% cone 10 porcelain clay this weekend.

Details of the texture and surface cracks thru the porcelain and swirled with the porcelain showing the home grainy gray clay.

new mixed clay adventures

2009-08-20T17:41:00.004-04:00

Been kind of slow (hot) this summer in my mixed home clay adventures. Here are some cone 10 results.

Above vessel is a mix of 50 50 porcelain and home clay very loose blend to create the marble look with shino inside.
Above is a 1/3 home clay, 1/3 craggy c.,1/3 porcellain pinch pot with porcelain slip on front, some iron oxide hand rubbed over vessel
Above texture slab is a home clay slab with some porcelain slip and several other surface treatments.

Last night with clay mix

2009-07-24T09:10:00.004-04:00

Last night I mixed up a new batch of my home gray clay after ageing for 6-8 weeks with 50% cone 10 porcelain clay. Vessel hand built to See what happens next week in firing. fingers crossed!
Detail of opposite side.

This was one I picked up yesterday, mixture of yellow home clay with 50% porcelain, fired with iron oxide outside and white glaze brushed inside. cone 5

Raku and sculpture results

2009-06-26T12:24:00.003-04:00

My second ever Raku, step in right direction. Thanks to class partners who took out for me!
A little detail of one side. Again as my theme: texture and experiment.
Here is a better sculpture photo I took today from gas firing several weeks ago.

Home clay and more

2009-06-23T16:39:00.002-04:00

A request from my kids to make shot glasses, made this morning from porcelain.
Home clay fired at cone 10 , this test tile will be a start of others. (see below) added a slip of brick clay and copper and iron oxide too.

This home clay tile has a 1/3 home clay,1/3 cragyc= c., 1/3 porcelain, with brick slip and heavy porcelain slip at bottom edge. Will add more texture stuff after bisk fire.

Same clay mix as above with porcelain on surface.

Had a spare old bookcase become available so, made a ceramics show and tell at my office. I guess I could say my office is gone to pot... This is maybe 25 to 30% of my stuff. Maybe I need to put a "For Sale" sign up.

Little clay, a little play

2009-06-09T12:39:00.003-04:00

Put a little slab bottle together last night with a small brick clay wash at the top

And a little spider web photo and abstraction fun from a weekend shot. click to enlarge.

"it is just dirt"

2009-06-04T13:51:00.002-04:00

Quote from Julie, my first pottery instructor, "It is just dirt." That is sooo right. Spent some time last night making some home experimental clay mixture, by first screeding the dry clay/dirt thru a double screen to get the roots and rocks out before making a workable texture, see my earlier blogs . Did about 15 to 20 lbs. It fires cone 10 to dark rich color.