Jeff Campana

So, this work is by Jeff Campana. You see those lovely, flowing lines, there? He throws his vessels in porcelain and then he CUTS THEM INTO PIECES before reassembling them. I had to do deep breathing both before and after cutting my first steeks into knitting. HIS chill knows no bounds. Either that or he’s a heavy drinker.

It was a good kiln-day today.

Clay=Tom Colemain porcelain.
Glaze=accidental green celadon (communal studio clear glaze that’s no longer so clear).
Cone= 10 reduction.

Trying something new that I’m excited about. Finally feeling like I’m finding my own voice in ceramics. The process involved pressing flowers into a clay slab and then, once that’s fired, use that as a mold for slabs that can be used to create whatever form you want.

Lots of technical challenges if you want rounded forms, so the cup is my 4th attempt at it.

Clay is standard 181. Been playing with Georgie’s interactive pigments and celandon and crackle glazes for these forms. So there’s more learning curve to come.

One of the planters tumbled from the balcony in this morning’s rain, hence the rescue bouquet of Coleus Campfire and Persian Shield (Strobilanthes dyerianus).

And a good opportunity to grab a picture of a recent project. The pitcher is made from Tom Coleman’s porcelain. The glazes are Elaine’s Best Honey Amber Celadon with stripes of Fire Opal Art to give it some run and texture. Fired to cone 10 reduction.

Sooooo. Not to go all “Ghost” on you, but here I was spending my Saturday morning knitting and watching pottery videos, and I ran into this one.

*ahem*

All right, here we go. Taking a stab at a bit of sculpturing. Here it is in process. The porcelain is at a soft leatherhard stage, so it’s about the consistency of cold Swiss cheese, except a little grainy. 🙂

Here’s what I’ve been up to lately.

Took a pottery class a while back and the teacher challenged me to start combining some of my interests. Here’s a couple of the results: an acorn pot with the funny little cap (clay = standard 266, Amaco glazes smokey merlot underneath and seaweed on top, cone=5/6) and a spider web bowl (Porcelain Black ice – no glaze).

The snack/tea time/coffee and a bagel set are the result of FINALLY finding glaze combinations that I like. (clay = tom coleman porcelain, Spectrum glazes: Texture Navy underneath and Hot Running Chowder on top)

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Laying out a shallow bowl.

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That’s some skill throwing big piece like that off the hump like that. How the heck does he not get an S-crack in the foot?

Some odds and ends

I’ve taken up a bit of glass fusing.. see?

That scattered green on the wave was a bit more olive than I liked, but overall a success. The one on the right was all kinds of fun. The first layer of glass on the bottom was “french vanilla,” which reacts with chemicals in other glass and with silver to produce the effects you see in this piece. The circles you see there are fine silver rings that I simply set atop the french vanilla glass and sprinkled with the same aqua and light green frit what was used in the wave on the left. Then you just pop it in the kiln and see what is going to react with what.

And finally was able drop by the studio and pick up some stuff that had been fired recently. Mainly a set of six of the ramekins below, as well as a bunch of glaze tests which weren’t nearly as exciting. (Tom Coleman’s porcelain. Non-iron blue celadon glaze. Cone 10 reduction.)

Also went to a week long pottery workshop taught by Birdie Boone at Arrowmont in Gatlinburg, TN (the week before they lost two of their dorm buildings to the fire there). Made a few mugs. Cone 6 red clay. Three firings. One to fire the pot to bisque. Another to bisque the white crackle bisque slip over it. A final firing to add the transparent glaze.