For the second set of weed cups, I first tried to scratch in the design and then fill it with white slip, using a metal rib tool to scrape it off. That didn’t work at all. My fellow ceramicists suggested that perhaps I had done it with the clay too wet (It was leather hard …
Jan 09
Smiley Ball 13
Another smiley-ball filler piece until I get a chance to finish my new books and photograph them.
Dec 25
Dark Smiley Ball
Experimenting with photography again. This time I used the speaker stands/tripods to suspend a spotlight about 8 inches above the piece. Husband and daughter held the other two spot lights, as non-diffused fill. On one hand, I think that the level of detail is acceptable, if not great, and the shadows aren’t distracting, but on …
Dec 17
Weed Cup 1
This is the same dark brown clay I used in the “dark smiley” piece. I like the color of the clay body, but it’s rather porous and soaks up glaze. I needed something waxy and opaque to compete with it, and as I learned from the momiji cups, only white satin would do what I …