Unconscious Lanscapes series

A large Unconscious Landscape glazed in Tin White.

The pot version glazed in Egyptian Blue.

Black clay dishes

Thrown in black clay, glazed in turquoise + transparent.

Second one didn't fare so well in the kiln - badly made and of uneven thickness, I think.

Black clay plate

Black clay, thrown. Glazed in 'transparent black' (Madeleine's glaze). Fired to earthenware.

Cut pot

An experiment in using porcelain wedged with iron filings. Wanted a bit of sparkle, or some impact of the colour of iron. 

None of this happened. Handbuilt form. Cut into vertically to create sort of gills. Glazed inside with Egyptian blue and outside with matting blue. Was a bit thick - didn't highlight all the cuts as much as cover them. The iron filings may have helped further flux the glaze causing it to run down more. 

Porcelain frilled pot

Porcelain handbuilt body, fine black clay frills added from the lip. Body glazed with matt white. Inside Egyptian blue. One side of each grill painted with shiny green. Nothing remains of the shiny green but some interesting white markings dapple gorge black clay frills. 

Unconscious Landscapes series

Unconscious Lanscapes series in terracotta and porcelain started in spring 2014.

Snake pots

Two stoneware pots with wavy details. Glazed with Egyptian blue thickly on the inside, matt white poured over the outside

Coil pot with oxides

Coiled in stoneware paper clay with added grog, and scraped back. Glazed inside with speckled black. Rubbed on outside with dry manganese and splotches of crocus martis. Not very well made - it leaks!

Gesture pot - raku fired

Raku cup. With beer

Raku pot

Kind if nondescript shape. Turquoise and white crackle glazes dipped diagonally across each other.

Neolithic pinch pot

Raku firing

Two naked lady bottles. Raku with clear transparent, naked black lines and drip of copper. 

Raku rope pot

Thrown in earthstone handbuilding clay. Wrapped with rope while on the wheel. Glazed with white crackle, scraped back, and raku fired. 

Porcelain beakers

Glazed in White House green. Filled with beer

First glaze firing completed

Half a term building. Delta with porcelain ruffles.

Bisque fired

Glaze firing - egyptian blue poured from the top down the body. Some drips of shocking pink over the top. The porcelain ruffles are painted with transparent. 

Thinking about a final lustre firing. 

So now going for lustre firing with some platinum and mother-of-pearl lustre. 

Little urns

Black clay pinch pots. One with an insert of porcelain. Glazed with lead green. Makes it very smooth and shiny. 

Spouts

Dont know if this works but teapot makers - it might be worth a try. 

Five-Minute Portraits

Fran suggested people get into pairs and make a portrait of the other person. Can you recognize the person from the depiction? Answers to follow shortly.

 

Harriet's pot has been reclaimed by nature

This is an Inderwick clay jamon made by Harriet. She gave it to me last year, I put it in the garden and now it's been colonised by a really nice plant. 

Crack pot

Black clay cyclinder rolled in ball clay, pressed out from inside until it cracks. One crack held together with porcelain. Glazed in honey. 

Manipulation of thrown vessel forms

Five-minute group pinched forms

Just five minutes for groups of four or five people to pinch a block of clay into its final form. Can you match the four works-in-progress to the final pieces?

Naked Raku

http://www.jevceramics.co.uk/pages/crartp1.html

This is an article about the secrets of naked raku. 

Hot chocolate mug

This hot chocolate mug was glazed with Jill's white and shiny blue. The glaze combination was copied from one of Cheiko's pots and I think it looks fantastic. Thanks Cheiko!