Showing posts with label ceramic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ceramic. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Glaze firing on Mother's Day.

Glaze firings always make me nervous. 
I just never know how they'll turn out.




I've been under-glazing and glazing some ceramic pieces I made a while back.

It takes 3 coats of underglaze, covered by 2 coats of clear glaze, 
to get full colour coverage.



Loading the kiln.






The dog vase, mug, bird and sunfaces are the pieces I am most anxious to see completed,
 as well as a "boob cup" that I'm firing for someone else. 

    
    Checking the witness cones before shutting the lid.


10 hours later, I've unloaded the kiln.
A successful cone 06 firing!
Here's all the glazed pieces that were in there.




The dog is adorable, the sunface mug turned out sweet.
 The colourful bird needs eyes, and the sunfaces need cords to hang by. 

It might be a while, before I get around to taking better photos,
 but some of these pieces might make it to my Etsy shop.
If you see something you'd like, contact me.




Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A blue bird and a bear head... finished.

I've just completed two clay pieces that I'm quite proud of. 
An adorable blue bird figure, and a bear head wall hanging.
To see them before painting... click here.

I hope you don't mind if I show them off.

This is my blue bird before I painted a 
glossy finish on him. 


The gloss protects the paint, and enhances the colours,
but makes it hard to get photos without glare.



This is the bear head before the glossy finish.


These are after the glossy finish.