May 11
After I stamped the image, the second step was to cut them out and lay them gently into styrofoam meat trays. I pushed the clay into the corner to get a neat shape, and then trimmed the edges. I’ve done a lot of these. It’s not as easy as it looks. The less you touch …
May 09
I’ve resisted using rubber stamps in my pottery before, preferring the ones I’ve made myself out of bisqued clay, but I shouldn’t have. Rubber stamps are available in so many different designs, and there are things you can do with stamps that you can’t do with any other tool.
May 07
Except for the first one, all these plates have a very similar design. This one has a glaze flaw on the edges. This is what happens when the cobalt carbonate is too thick.
May 03
This is my first plate of a series of six. It was kind of a first try, because I ended up using a different technique for the later ones.
Jan 15
With every load, I’ve been adding more small tiles for some unspecified mosaic project in the future. These I used a glaze I have two bottles of, called “terra cotta.” How funny–when you put terra cotta glaze on a terra cotta tile, the color looks…terra cotta. I’m not thrilled with them, but I will probably …
