Design - Realized
Adventures in Soda Firing and Ceramics

Some ideas
Tuesday July 17th 2007, 10:52 pm
Filed under: Ideas, Theory

Lots of things I’ve been thinking about doing but haven’t tried:

    Big houses. Not absurdly big, but larger than a napkin holder. 1/4″ thick slabs. Edit 3Jan08: Wood fired a couple over Labor Day 2007 with outstanding results.
    Porcelain vase type things, with the leafy design. Various sizes, thicknesses, scribing tools.Edit 3Jan08: Had a couple at the Bucktown show. Did a couple in wood+salt without leaves. Made a couple more for soda, trying new details on these large vessels.

    Scented oil holder. Place for a tealight in the bottom, airflow to the top, and a dish to hold oil. Conceptual sketches.Edit3Jan08: Abandoned this idea for now

    Trays, I’ve still held off in size on trying anything big enough for dinner or serving.Edit3Jan08: Getting them through the soda kiln is tricky, since they’re flat and all, but I’ve got a good number of completed ones now.

    Cups with the little sketches. Do in pairs?Edit3Jan08:I don’t know what I was thinking of here.

    Little sauce dishes, big enough to be useful. Try some in porcelain with the leafy design?Edit3Jan08: And quite useful as test tiles too!

    Chopstick holders.Edit3Jan08: Still do be done.

    Tiles; leafy patterned and sketched upon.Edit3Jan08: Abandoned this idea for now

    Mosaic with small T6s tiles.Edit3Jan08: Abandoned this idea for now

While I’m trying the different forms, I’ll probably stick to my favorite combinations for materials and surfaces - the four glazes with BB’s SFAO or porcelain, and FCSI with Tile 6 slip, line drawings or carving, and the Woo Blu glaze that I make for myself.Edit3Jan08: I will probably abandon the SFAO in favor of T6’s softer surfaces, and work with temoku and woo blu, leaving the flashier copper glazes behind.


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Very impressive, wish I had a digital camera. I really like the little drawings, much direct character in them, very eye catching, the one at the top of this blog with the colors is terrific, very strong. I like the stacked houses thing too, great variety, very sharp to my eyes.

Enter as many shows as you can find, even the yearly fair, surely they have one in your area.

Very fine, hope to see more. Thanks for showing this and thanks for the written material, very interesting.

Comment by Jim 07.18.07 @ 10:35 pm



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