Tag: handbuilt slab

I used to do a lot of wheel work, but in the past year hand building has really grown on me.  I just recently made a couple playful closed box forms in low fire, white clay.  Here there are in the leather hard stage.  Basically dried mud.  Very Very Very fragile.  For the bottom one, if it makes it to the glaze stage, I’m thinking a very light celadon looking greenish blue, fading to clear white near the top of the writhing squiggles, and a smidge of red at their very tips.

I might have a bit of a thing for beauty and the macabre.

Inspired by Liz Zlot Summerfield handbuilt forms.

Finally pulling things out of the kiln that I actually like.  Woohoo!

clay body: Tom Coleman porcelain

construction: slab built, impress the clay with the textures first before picking the slab up to make the cone.  Check out Sandi Pierantozzi’s free video on slab building of tripod pots for the technique.

glazes: Fire Opal Art (cone 6 glaze) accents over Elaine’s Best celadons

glaze application: Sprayed on.  Pretty thin coat. Got a bit of “orange peel” and lack of translucency.  The insides are more translucent, so I think they may have been in a “cold” spot in the kiln.  Still like ‘em, though. 🙂

glaze firing:  cone 9 reduction/gas