Stellaria
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Experimenting with the Ukrainian method of washing a fired pot in milk, then bringing it to about 600°F and holding it there until the desired color is reached. This bowl was thrown from Runyan K-4 Multi-Purpose Red Brown Body, and fired to cone 04 prior to milk treatment. Following the milk fire, it was treated with a generous coating of beeswax and olive oil (2 parts wax, 1 part oil melted together) then heated to 200°F to allow the wax to soak in. Heating it released all the little bits of terry towel fluff that got caught in the wax upon application, and they just brushed off with a light buffing.
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From the album: Milk-firing
Again, left is dunked, right is sponged. I definitely like the color of the dunked piece better. Next time, I'll make sure the cream is well-blended into the milk before dipping, and I'll just have to watch it a LOT closer while pieces are in the oven so I can catch them before they completely blacken. I like that the tiles really did get a kind if glossy, water-repellant finish to them, even without waxing. -
From the album: Milk-firing
For this test, I used tiles of the same clay fired to cone 6. The left tile was dunked into very creamy raw milk and air-dried three times, and the right tile was sponged down with the same milk and air dried three times. They were then placed in the oven, and then heated to 550° F. I expected it to take a while, so I waited about 15-20 minutes before checking on them. The left tile was a glossy BLACK. The right looked about like it does in the photo. I decided to see if any of the carbonized milk could be scrubbed off with a scrubby pad and water, and what you see on the left is the results of that. The areas that scrubbed the barest were the areas where cream streaks stuck to the ceramic. I suspect the cream prevented the more sugar- and casein-heavy milk from adhering to the ceramic body, which kept it from carbonizing in the fine texture. -
For once, I don't feel like I was hit by a truck on Monday morning! Let's see if I can motivate myself to get the necessary cleaning done to swap my sewing room and pottery workroom around. I'll have so much more space!!
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From the album: Stamps
Impression made with the Julienne Tomatoes stamp. The tomato gets painted with underglaze, is waxed over, and then the piece gets dunked in whatever glaze I'm using. It's a pretty satisfactory result for such a simple, shallow-lined stamp. -
From the album: Stamps
Logo stamp for Julienne Tomatoes, a local café. Carved from hardwood with a dremel. -
From the album: Stamps
Bear paw print stamp and impression, created for a friend who goes by the name Bjornsson. It helps to keep his dishes differentiated from the rest of my stuff. Carved from hardwood with a dremel. -
From the album: Stamps
My signature raven spiral stamp and impression. Carved from hardwood with a dremel. -
Stuff made during my third Clay Club session - March to June 2014
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From the album: Spring Session '14
The mug in front holds about 20 oz and is my pride and joy. -
From the album: Spring Session '14
Stone white glaze. Only yoyo pot I made that survived both trimming and glaze firing. -
From the album: Spring Session '14
Nutmeg drizzled over waterfall brown. Plate went to my best friend, to complete the set of dishes I gave him for Christmas. -
From the album: Spring Session '14
Turquoise Matte and Stone White -
From the album: Spring Session '14
Bright Sky over Dynasty Blue -
From the album: Spring Session '14
Jeannie's Purple over Diana's Fake Ash over smooth white stoneware. Plus worry stones. -
The reporter can't write for crap and she got virtually NONE of her facts right, but hey! Our Clay Club is in the newspaper! http://www.petoskeynews.com/graphic/clay-creations/article_d8271924-61d9-5be9-a0ab-7d6ca156f662.html?TNNoMobile
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I'm kinda peeved that this new job I took has been wiping me out so bad. My practicing and production (and thus, progress) have gone straight down the tubes as I come home from work sore and exhausted :/ Thank goodness it's only part time - I think I'd die if it was full time. *slump*
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From the album: Milk-firing
I'm not sure how to get the inside darker. Probably just more coats of milk. My only real complaint about this bowl is that I stupidly sponged out the inside, instead of ribbing it clean. It's got a big, rough divot in the center -
From the album: Milk-firing
It definitely gets darker where the milk collected while wet. Next time I will give it a good sponging from the top to try to get the milk to collect evenly in all the crevices.© 2014 Stell Michelsen
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Tried milk-firing last night! I'm mostly pleased with the results, but I can't find my jar of beeswax polish so I won't know for sure until that's located.
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Surely you'vee been using the polish daily!! no potting till the furniture smells like Granny's dining room!!
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Oh, surely. *coughs on the dust coating everything in my house*
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Sounds like my house, have you ever tried paste wax. I think it's easier to use and durable. Denice
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Ridiculously low motivation this week. I'd make myself make some stuff, but experience tells me that that would end in frustration and crappy output...just gonna ride it out.
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early v early morning here, just about to start yoga.
What Tyler says is true. Just go into your space , mope around or tidy and before you know it you'll have a crapton of ideas!!
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Have to agree. If I'm out of sorts, I can't even center. Clean and rearrange.
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I cleaned, made some plant markers for the garden, got stuff glazed....so it wasn't a TOTALLY non-productive week, at least.
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Mixed up my first glazes tonight! Of course, I flubbed up the first one by not re-reading the advice I was given and starting with too much water. So that will have to evaporate. Oh well, at least I learned something!
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I was concerned that there may be soluble components dissolved in the water that would change the glaze chemistry if I bailed it. Guess I should study the formula to see if that's even possible, eh?
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good question ... maybe post the question and the recipe in Clay and Glaze Technical? I bet someone here can answer that.
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I just looked at the list - it's all clays, stone, and oxides. I think I'm good. Thanks!
