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last class pickup 1

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:13:53 +0000

so class is over, and i’m not enrolled anymore. i’ve still got five more pieces to glaze, and lots to pick up from the kiln when it gets out friday. but i stopped by the studio on tuesday to pick up what had already come out of the kiln over the weekend, and to see what had come out of bisque.

last class

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:52:53 +0000

last class for a while. I’ve still got 5 more pieces coming out of bisque to glaze. And my mug is just going to start to dry today. so really 6 more pieces. I glazed two porcelain pieces and a stoneware piece.

The mug is my first attempt at shellacking porcelain, in the form of a chris bachio drawing of Cyclops from the X-Men. The jug is glazed with glossy white and old yeller, the vase is glazed with wu yellow and sponged with lords matt green. the stoneware jug is black inside and oribe green outside. even trying a small glass bead in the lid.

swapped night

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:45:06 +0000

swapped nights because i couldn’t make it on tuesday, so i went wednesday night.
got some of my watering can done, and some other trimming fun.
still about 5 more pieces left to do. going back tonight (thurs) to do some more.

porcelain week 3

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:54:59 +0000

I did some trimming last night, really happy with the overall shape now of my first porcelain bowl, and happy with my little saki jug. though the neck of it began to break while trimming it, and i had to apply some paper porcelain clay to it to shore it up. A vase i was trimming got really thin too and almost poked through, but i managed to stop short of that.

I also got 5 of my pieces back, the two flower pots, my carved bowl, and my candle holder. which turned out great =) . also got the test bowl back from the glaze pencils. so i’m looking forward to doing more with them.

porcelian week 2

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:51:26 +0000

the second week, really the third of class since i missed the first one, wasn’t as productive. but i did get 4 pieces done, and started working on my throwing technique more, to work away from thick bases.

porcelain

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:49:17 +0000

worked for a few on some porcelain, but haven’t managed to take good pictures of my stuff while i’m working on it. just going back and updating it now. I made six pieces the first night of porcelain. but only managed to remember to photograph three of them. sorry.

Out of Lead

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:06:06 +0000

looks like i’ve got to head back to long island. =(
i’m all out of leading, and still have so much to do.

May the Triforce Be With You

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:36:39 +0000

Some progress on the zelda window. I’ve gone through 72ft of thick leading, and 21ft of thin leading, I still need one more package of thick lead to get some areas, and maybe a few packages of thin leading. I’ll see how far I get with what I’ve got.

I’m stuck deciding whether i want to try and do it all in monochrome, or try to make the window in full color. fortunately i don’t have to decide soon, since it’ll take a few more evenings and a weekend of work to finish the leading alone.

Last day of 2nd class

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:16:00 +0000

Class is wrapping up, and the pressure to glaze everything this week is on. The plus side is that in a few weeks I’ll have a lot of nice stuff to take home. the downside is that now I have to glaze things. =(
I may stop by Thursday since I wasn’t able to finish everything last night, and i’ve still got a few pieces to finish trimming.

Zelda window

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:11:21 +0000

So progress is slowly being made ( despite recovering from a small bout of food poisoning ) on a Gallery Glass faux stained glass window for my office. In homage to the triforce, i’ve chosen zelda over thundercats