Norm Stuart

The pine cone is a collection of bisqued leaves assembled into a core of non-shrinking ceramic paste, then rebisqued and glazed. Manganese glaze covers the core and inner part of the leaves.

I tried to capture the look of photos of various ducks landing on water. This particular duck had to land in a pool with a wingspan no wider than our kiln, so he had to be captured at the moment he began tucking his wings back into a retracted position. I made it with Laguna WC-370 Amador clay which has so much grog it's almost like using paper-clay. The companion piece, Return of the Duck in Orange Sauce, is an assemblage of a variety of ^6 glazed clays and porcelain pieces assembled with low-fire glaze and low-fire glaze mixed with orange COE 96 glass frit.

You can do much the same thing with Copper Carbonate or oxide with Ferro Frit 3269.