Pottery, Photography, Design - Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz
Who loves a three day weekend? I do! And so does my clay studio.
glazed pots
Another snow/ice day yesterday for me to stay home and work on pots. After a solid day of work Monday to go with my time in the studio over the weekend, I’m pretty close to finished with glazing this cycle of pots. I have a handful of pots that I want to spray with glazes but I might wait and do that outside.
cooled soy wax in the crock-pot
I finally got to try the soy wax in the Crock Pot idea that I mentioned in another post. After unloading the bisque kiln and washing off the pots I was ready to wax the bottoms. Previously, this required getting out the wax resist and sponging or brushing it on each pot. This worked well but it was time consuming. While taking a class at the Goshen Clay Guild I noticed that they had an electric skillet which was used to melt paraffin wax which pots were dipped into. Even though it produced an odor and required more caution, it cut down on the time required to wax the bottoms. Then as I was researching this idea further, I read on the Ceramic Arts Daily Forum that some potters use soy wax and crock pots. So I decided to give it a try.
A few small design projects recently.
The Beads of Clay Blog is having a face-lift contest. I had ideas for two or three different designs… but only had the time to work on one. I think it could use some final touches. The beads should definitely be more glassy. And instead of a rainbow of color a decent color scheme might help. Oh well. There are already some designs posted that I like better than my own.
beads of clay
Edit: Beads of Clay Banner version number 2:
beads of clay white background
I made a handful of designs for the West Noble Softball team. They liked the idea below the best.
softball 1
softball 2
I also made a quick banner last night for one of my other websites. Check out the Argil Alert to see it.
As for pottery, I’m in the middle of glazing. I entered a photo of my work in progress in Michael Kline’s 12×12 challenge.
Thanks for reading.
It’s the end of an era. And also a sad day. Apparently I won’t be selling pottery at the Stone Soup Emporium.
Yesterday was the day for the Goshen Clay Artist’s Guild 2013 Empty Bowl Event. I talked my wife into going with me so we drove over to the Goshen Farmer’s Market around 5:20 on Saturday evening.