Tag: cobalt

Cobalt Stamp Plate 5

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 …

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Florentine-Cobalt Porcelain Cup

This was one of the cups I threw with my share of the batch of porcelain that some of our classmates mixed up.  I had some of Kurt Weiser’s cobalt underglaze that Bridget Harper (my ceramics teacher and friend) cadged for me.  I’ve done underglaze or stain on porcelain many, many times. This is a …

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Fish Tray

I made this using the porcelain that Bridget Harper formulated for us.  One thing that I discovered about this clay is that it does not like to be thick. I made a set of twelve small trays like this (only smaller) using the same technique (slab rolled, then formed inside a styrofoam meat tray).  All …

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