I found a new raku glaze recipe. Here it is! Check out the link!
Made up some, tried it on Friday, here’s the result!
Not quite what I was hoping for, but there is potential.
Try, try again!
Yum! This bread is sooooo good and sooooo easy! Artisan Bread Recipe
My handy dandy bread baker really makes the bread crusty on the outside and moist on the inside!
Hope you enjoy this trip around our property and a tour of my studio. It is a wonderful place in paradise! Come see me!
I miss my life in America, but I REALLY have missed a couple of large equipment items from my studio in Texas. So…this past trip, I decided to bring my slab roller and my extruder back with me on the plane. My husband broke them down into small pieces, the UPS store packaged them for plane flight ($40!!) and I paid the $100 extra baggage fee to take them on my return flight to Australia! Amazing that it all worked so well and so inexpensively! Glad to have them here with me!
Here’s a video tutorial from LaPella Art on how to make brushes Click here.
Wow! Making my own brushes?!It wasn’t that hard!
I “inherited” all the makings when I bought my kiln.Too easy! and they are awesome! They will make some really great and interesting additions to my glaze regime!
I find that seeing other people’s work can be very inspiring and educational. Hope that my “learning” can assist you in some way. Here’s the video of the latest kiln opening! Enjoy!
| Nathan Bray’s Work |
I’ve decided to add a little gold lustre/luster to some of my cone 10 fired work (thanks for the inspiration, Nathan Bray!).
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| Brad at Picasso’s Ceramics |
So when I bought some gold lustre from Picasso’s Ceramics – Yikes! Expensive!!!
– I received a really great tip from Brad.
Since the gold lustre is in such a tiny bottle, to avoid a fatal mistake of a tip-over, Brad showed me his handy-dandy, homemade lustre bottle holder!
WOW!! What a great idea!
All you have to do is to silicon glue a small piece of foam rubber to a heavy base (old kiln furniture) and then cut out small holes to hold the tiny bottles – no dramas! Thanks, Brad for the great idea! and permission to pass it along!
Here’s wishing me good luck with the gold lustre – I’ll report back when I have some amazing results!
My video editing software won’t let me download the video footage of my kiln opening!!! So, I will give you a preview in stills!
| Marian Williams’ Pottery |
Attaching handles, welding seams, joining pieces of clay….Problems?!
Here is the easy solution!
Magic Water! Lana Wilson’s recipe is (from website):
Magic Water
1 Gallon Water
9.5 Grams Sodium Silicate
3 Grams Soda Ash
OR
1 Gallon Water
3 Tablespoons of Liquid Sodium Silicate
1 1/2 Teaspoons of Soda Ash
I use a toothbrush to score and apply and have had really great success! No more messy slip and cracks in pieces during the drying process!
Give it a go – you’ll impress yourself!
As I’m (im)PATIENTLY waiting for my kiln to cool enough for unloading, I’m wishing and hoping and wishing and praying that my pottery will look a bit like the pottery created by John Calver on the cover of Ceramics Monthly in 2000.
I’m striving to create glazes that speak to me as these do….
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| John Calver’s Pottery |
John’s pottery has all the qualities that I strive to achieve in my work: great glazes, interesting shapes/designs, and beautiful works of functional art!
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| John Calver |
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| John Calver |