February 2011 archive

Tiny Smiley Balls 1

These are portable smiley balls I made to bring as gifts for people I’m visiting later this spring.  They are about the size of nuts. The one on the left got that weird texture from being overfired.  In the future, I will make these plain, or maybe with colored clay bodies. Glazing them is too …

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My Traumatic D+

When I was in fifth grade, we had an assignment were we had to plan for an imaginary trip to another country. I was an extremely bright and diligent student, and moreover, I’d planned for trips before.  My family took us camping every year.  My responsibility on camping trips was to make a list of the …

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Mosaic Tiles 2

Here are three of the different colors of tiles I made during this session. The black and yellow ones were underglaze applied to the fired clay, then wiped off to expose the texture. The green ones show the texture because of the ultra-transparent nature of the glaze. I love transparent glazes for the way they …

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