yappystudent
-
Posts
539 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Everything posted by yappystudent
-
From the album: Finished work
-
From the album: Finished work
-
Studio Tips: glazing, underglaze, and in-glaze
yappystudent replied to Pres's topic in Studio Operations and Making Work
Birkenstocks, just sayin': My last pair of leather Arizona's lasted 7 yrs and I wore them (nearly) every day including at work, in the rain, etc. Yes, I wear socks with sandals. They will cost you but it's cheaper than replacing shoes every year. They form to your feet. I wear the classic kind with no heel strap but they make lots that do have them now. Once you start wearing them they are addictive and your feet won't want to go back. -
Studio Tips: glazing, underglaze, and in-glaze
yappystudent replied to Pres's topic in Studio Operations and Making Work
Yes that's exactly. originally I wanted the brine shrimp not be attached to anything, but it was too fiddly and one of it's ribs got cut off, so basically I made a rubber stamp out of it to glue the rib in place. It should have nice sharp edges for a long time. I used aquarium silicone to attach it to the backing; more vinyl; which worked great, then glued the whole thing to a small flooring tile because I didn't have a piece of wood the right size. Voila, prototype. I smeared craft paint on a plastic plate, twirled the stamp around in it and stamped it onto to a damp piece of fabric. Worked not so well on dry fabric. Anyway, I'll be using this idea again but without the backing attached it should work better in future for clay. The sheet vinyl -not the hard 'tile' type flooring- cut super easy. I went into a flooring store I get my flooring tile remnants from and they were happy to give me a scrap.- 24 replies
-
- 2
-
-
- studio tips
- glaze
- (and 3 more)
-
Studio Tips: glazing, underglaze, and in-glaze
yappystudent replied to Pres's topic in Studio Operations and Making Work
I recently discovered that (Sheet) vinyl flooring makes great easy to cut stamps for making impressions, not so much for picking up color, but I'll be putting color into them and wiping back like Pres mentioned in the topic. With scissors I was able to cut out this in about 20 min with only one boo-boo I had to fix. So far it's working great for stamping clay, and reasonably well for cloth using craft paint. Use thin plastic wrap, better yet those clear plastic produce bags from the grocery store over the clay or the vinyl tends to stick toit.
- 24 replies
-
- 2
-
-
- studio tips
- glaze
- (and 3 more)
-
Stuck on making up a 'store' title and motif. Grokking new 'bread & butter designs. Needing to make some stuff for myself alone.
- Show previous comments 1 more
-
TY for asking. My situation is a bit complicated, but the simple version would be to peddle a personal fantasy twist to somewhat baroque-meets-sci fi wares, in a small capacity in my local community and on Etsy. I can't quite decide how exotic to get. At this point my output will be fairly minimal so it's up to personal choice really. Any ideas?
-
This is just my feeling, as someone who has bought pottery both from Etsy and at a shop.
I don't think the store name matters on Etsy. That will be all about photos and descriptions.
I don't think it matters either for items you might sell through someone else's shop.
For a booth, I would choose a name that draws people because it captures who they want to believe they are or how they want to live. We have participants here whose business names are, for example, Good Earth and Dirt Roads, each of which evokes an image of a way of life.
I'd definitely walk into a booth called Queen Agnes' Intergalactic Kitchen, but that doesn't mean the residents of Coos Bay would. I have a card tucked under my computer from a potter who does hand-building and calls herself Earth to Annie, a name that captures both the Earth origin of her material and the fantasy embodied in the style of her work.
-
Sweet. I'm stealing that Queen Agnes' logo right now, it might not be to far away from the mark. Valuable insight otherwise as well. Actually you must read minds because the current working title starts with "Queen"! -anyway, the shop theme will be largely to keep my own interest over time, allow some wiggle room to my designs, build up a local reputation with original work. I am not a social flower so my work is going to have to speak for itself. Won't argue that I don't need to do this, especially in regards to paraphernalia wares, what's on the shelves currently locally and online is mainly either godawful or very bland. That won't be all I'm doing but since those stores need goods and there is one on every block here the unexploited niche is irresistible. Thanks again for your interaction, useful stuff.
-
What is the community challenge and when does it happen? I can find this thread OK but the basic info still eludes me.
-
From the album: Finished work
-
From the album: Finished work
-
From the album: Finished work
-
Q: Where does one draw the line between deciding what is a second and what is OK to represent your name? For that matter, what is a second -perhaps worthy of selling out the back room so to speak albeit with your logo stamped into it forever, and what is junk waiting for the hammer or negative examples shelf? Exemplary work probably speaks for itself, but what about the gray areas below that? A set of rules for these decisions would be helpful.
-
TY for posting my question and I've never seen decorated kiln plugs, neat idea . Thought of this while trying to decide what I'd like to make the kiln goddess for my -still nameless- new kiln. Lots of bits and bobs around I could use but nothing seems to fit until I come up with a name first. I'll probably make a little figure of some sort that won't take up much shelf room. Back in the day my boss used his kiln god until it was burnt and unrecognizable, although it was pretty funky in the first place, then would replace it with a new one when it started falling apart. They always went inside the kiln and he was very particular about it.
-
Waiting to open my first real (not just tests) glaze firing in my own kiln. Now I understand.
-
Tick Tick Tick Be patient. Denice
-
-
What’s on your workbench?
yappystudent replied to Pres's topic in Aesthetic Approaches and Philosophy
Trying to get my next ^5-6 glaze load together. My work is mostly tiny and I've got about a shelf and a half so far. At some point I'll just fire it up full or not, I want to give my neighbor his mug, he looks a little bummed out and could probably use it. -
My cat left me a lizard on the porch for mother's day.
- Show previous comments 1 more
-
aww that's cute
-
Ha Glazenerd, nice try I'm not falling for that again.
-
My dog tears the lizards into pieces and scatter them all over the yard. My first dog was real mouser, I got him when he was 6 weeks old. The first morning I had him he comes up to me with blood all over his face. I freaked out until he shows me his prize. He continues bringing me mice, sometimes they weren't dead. Denice
-
Apologies if this has been suggested before but I'm curious if anyone else uses "Kiln Gods" or Gremlins when firing their kiln. My first experience with clay was as a laborer trimming cups in a small production factory. (back in the early 80's, called Shapiro's Ceramic and Design, they took over from the slightly more well-known Overland Stoneware) They had two car kilns there and the owner who did the firing had a couple hideous little figures that looked kind of like what you see stuck on face jugs. According to him these were his "kiln gods" who watched over the firing process, and we weren't allowed to place them. My father was a Mason and a master welder for the air force. My mother told me that whenever they were having problems with a plane repeatedly, during the fix they made a gremlin out of scrap metal and welded it somewhere inside the body of the aircraft where it wouldn't be seen.
-
QotW: Why?
yappystudent replied to Pres's topic in Int'l Ceramic Artists Network (ICAN) Operations and Benefits
Because drawing and painting are not tactile enough, and I need the tactile payoff for some reason. I can draw and paint really well, I have good ideas for creating images, but find the process a means to an end. With clay the process is part of what I enjoy about creating sculpture. Also I've just always wanted to do sculpture but couldn't find a satisfactory medium until I tried ceramics. -
Successfully test fired the new kiln last night.
- Show previous comments 2 more
-
Now you can get to work. Congratulations
-
Great job!
-
Always nice when things work as they should.
-
Another long drive today to pick up firing cones and a few other things. The countdown begins.
-
Spiky fish. Vessels with wavy rims. Anthropomorphic creatures. Ammonites. Anomalocarus. Rafflesia. Alien flora. I've always been interested in the idea of "weird" lifeforms: from likely-future bio-engineering, earth's deep time past, or just speculation. I've yet to work out exactly what I want to use, the message it would express, and how to carry off successful pieces. Figures of some kind as well as wall art of some kind definitely likely.
-
Sorry I can't convince you, clearly we are not of the same tribe.
-
The plug is installed.
Now to cut the cement board.
-
Great- moving forward
-
-
I think there are lots of clues that play on our brains in this regard. Our species is designed to pick up on cues that help us to conform to a social norm, it's been proven it's a major part of our survival technique. Figuring out what group we fit into and which we don't were and sometimes still are life and death decisions. I think you have to get pretty far into minimalism to stop giving cues and enter the area of "gender neutral" in regards to creating something. I definitely intentionally do work that I define as either female, male, or neutral. E.g: I'm working on some vivid glaze techniques for some of my 'ware' type work. I don't expect men to be buying the pastels and hot pinks, so I'm also making black, blue, red. A little story: I went into a semi-local gallery and stumbled upon knee-hi sculptures in driftwood with rough ceramic faces, shockingly close to an idea I thought I'd come up with myself. So much for that notion, but despite the heavy materials and primitive chunky claywork it seemed obvious it was done by a female artist. Despite their being displayed as sculpture there was an unapologetic vulnerability to the work that I have never seen in a man's work. Aside from the obvious, I'd say female artists -in general- have more tendency towards pure expression and creativity coming from their own selves. When men -and this is a generalization of course- get creative they seem to do it within a subconscious awareness of it being judged by other men, and want to succeed or surpass an existing accepted set of norms. Whether it will sell a lot of copies, honor an ancient tradition started by (male) potters, make them famous, or win shows isn't always foremost in the mind of a female artist, self expression or simple enjoyment of the artistic process is. Also, men seem to have a lot more interest with working with machinery, while women are more interested in hand building. This may have something to do with social-economic issues as well as inner desires (women artists can't afford as much fancy equipment), but at least in my case I've never given a fiddle dee dee about wheel work, I feel like I'm robbing my hands and head of what they really want to do.
Now to cut the cement board.