Hulk

I'd forgotten how helpful this roll around office lamp can be! ...having recently rearranged things to leave this "lamp way" in anticipation of a glazing session, today I pulled it over for glaze inspections. Setting for side light, the tiny pits that sometimes show up - easily repaired with a small pointy brush - are much easier to see.

Another chattering example

I had some buff clay to reclaim, and a small amount of speckled buff. I mixed them together. Uh-oh, major bloatware! The buff would take firing over cone 5, but minor problems start when fired over cone 5 and get worse with more heat work. The speckled buff seemed more tolerant going over cone 5. Together, eeh, no.

First few glaze fires in the new kiln, too much heat work, well over cone 6. This is more like it, left to right is top to bottom, where there's a five cone on each plaque, five & six where doubled up.

I'd forgotten how helpful this roll around office lamp can be! ...having recently rearranged things to leave this "lamp way" in anticipation of a glazing session, today I pulled it over for glaze inspections. Setting for side light, the tiny pits that sometimes show up - easily repaired with a small pointy brush - are much easier to see.

The glazes, white and red clays are coming out great at cone 5.5

Chattering really shows under this clear blue.

Digging in the garden and it's full of pottery shards.

Roll around lamp on the left highlights surface detail. Here I'm set to dip this jar (it's a jar!) upside down in glaze. The inside and lip are liner glazed and waxed. I like using tape! I started taping feet early on. It provides a handle for dipping and a clean glaze line. Notes: The notch/groove at the top of the foot makes a line to tape to, and a bold glaze edge. Be sure to stick the end of the tape to the beginning, else it pops loose and you drop the ware into the glaze! Fold back the very end, much easier to remove the masking when you've thought ahead and left a tab.

I'd forgotten how helpful this roll around office lamp can be! ...having recently rearranged things to leave this "lamp way" in anticipation of a glazing session, today I pulled it over for glaze inspections. Setting for side light, the tiny pits that sometimes show up - easily repaired with a small pointy brush - are much easier to see.

I'd forgotten how helpful this roll around office lamp can be! ...having recently rearranged things to leave this "lamp way" in anticipation of a glazing session, today I pulled it over for glaze inspections. Setting for side light, the tiny pits that sometimes show up - easily repaired with a small pointy brush - are much easier to see.

Test piece- need to figure out population

An older piece of my custom glaze work, this is 'Rising Hopes', a foal sculpted by Dr. Nanse Browne-Czipri and produced in fine bone china by Alchemy Ceramics of England around 2004.  This is a rather large piece, larger than 'traditional scale' for table top sculpture for a foal.   This piece measures something like 7 inches tall by 9 inches.  Only approximately 7 pieces exist of what was supposed to be a 50 piece edition, four of which I glazed myself to various colors.  This one I did to a bay tobiano using underglazes and finished with clear satin in 2007 - private collection. 

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A CLAY STUDY FOR A RESIN SERIES OR BRONZE, ABOUT LIFE SIZE SCULPTURE.THE ORIGINAL CLAY WILL THEN BE FIRED.

A SMALL STUDY FOR A BIGGER CLAY PIECE,THEN A MOULD FOR A BRONZE AND RESIN SCULPTURE!

H  23 CM     X     L  27 CM

CATS ARE ALWAYS TAKING NAPS,SOME EVEN WITH THEIR EYES OPEN, JUST IN CASE THEY HAVE TO RUN !!
THIS CLAY SCULPTURE FOR A FUTURE BRONZE CAST.
H 14CM  X   L  20CM

ANOTHER VIEW.

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