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22 hours ago, Denice said:

I will probably keep it until I kick the bucket,  people will be walking past it at my estate sale wondering what in the heck it was used for. 

Personal Particle Accelerator

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14 hours ago, Bill Kielb said:

 Some potters love to calculate, others love to test.

I'm inclined to do both.   And I agree with Bill Kielb on thanking you Bob Magnuson.

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On 1/20/2021 at 10:16 AM, Magnolia Mud Research said:

The "test slabs"  are interesting forms and prints.  well done!!! 

LT

Thank you LT! I suppose the cyanotype tree was very popular. I was not there when the kiln was unloaded and that one piece mysteriously disappeared.   While I'm pleased someone is enjoying it I did want to see how it behaved in reduction. I've only got a few bisque tests so far. They turn a golden brown.  Hoping and expecting the reduction will intensify on the next glaze firing, whenever that is.

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Ah, apologies for my misunderstanding then.

These are from photographs I've taken.   Some are turned into silkscreens, like these.

Some become stencils.  I also do actual photo  processes like cyanotype on clay. Like the attached.

Eventually, I'll come up with a process I can apply to something other than a test slab  or tile.

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10 hours ago, JohnnyK said:

What's mythological about naked ladies?

Nothing, if you put it like that. 

Demeter, on the other hand, was allegedly goddess of harvest and fertility. 

Andromeda was slated to be sacrificed to the kraken (not the Sydney Powell one).

Apologies for offending your sensibilities.

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11 hours ago, liambesaw said:

I wish mine looked like that!!

Really perfect as is!

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45 minutes ago, Hulk said:

Is that Michael Casson on th' cover of early edition The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques?

Yes, it is.

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On 1/12/2021 at 9:16 AM, liambesaw said:

I participated in my local clay art associations pot swap this year and will be sending out this plate to the person whose name I drew!

Lucky them!  It's beautiful!

[QotW: What ceramics related reading are you into presently if any?]

Hamer's "The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques"

A favorite of mine.

[What’s on your workbench?]

Working on test for a  Greek mythology set.

[QoTW: following last weeks question of the week; would you give up any of the technology you use in ceramics now and go back to a simpler not as technology advanced method?]

I'm unwilling to give up my cameras, printers, silkscreen materials, and nicely fritted mason stains just to be what some might consider a purist.

Neither am I ever likely to pursue having a 3d printer for clay, so,  I'll stay right here in the middle.

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On 9/16/2020 at 8:36 AM, Denice said:

I don't even like lending tools to my husband...

Pretty sure if I did that my wife would find a way to take me off somewhere and misplace me.

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Yep. Pretty chuffed!

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On 8/19/2020 at 8:28 PM, blackthorn said:

My new Thomas Stuart is  on its way though.

It arrived today.  I think I'll be keeping this one close by.

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They said they moved a number of times and the wheel 'sustained some damage' before its abandonment.  Like the wheel, I haven't seen that friend again. Not that I'm bitter.

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My silliest, though, not the silliest of anyone ever.   Certainly the most boring... I loaned my Brent C wheel  to a 'friend' before I went traveling. 

Never saw it again.

My new Thomas Stuart is  on its way though.

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He should be up and about in no time.  Fine work!

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On 4/8/2020 at 7:36 PM, Mark C. said:

I just turned off the gas at cone 11-1/2 on car kiln-to late the shop has sailed . Little kiln went off at 3 pm as well. Heat wave spring day here -was 77 degrees today-darn lawn is growing again-I think I can hear it.

Any chance of posting images on the finished firing?  Would love to see.

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Today it rained. Yesterday it rained. Day before that,  it rained.  I like the rain but my tomatoes are treading water.

So envious of you good folk with full on studios and kilns.

I shall go now and roll another slab.

 

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I've been working on transferring photographic images to clay.  I've read the myriad of image transfer techniques and am fiddling with my own addition to that 

Lots of misses but a few show some promise.  I won't be able to fire until the exile is lifted. Meanwhile... more adjustments. 

Then the fun part will be placing them actual pieces.