My Artwork – Page 6

Glaze Fire Results – May 2013

A few pieces from a glaze fire last month.

All Amaco Warm Brown Stoneware. Wheel Thrown. Glaze fired to ^6 in oxidation.

: small cups with small additions

: small brown cups

: strontium crystal magic tests

: new WN designs

: mugs

: earthtone berry bowl

: dark brown cups

: stoneware cups

: brown tumblers

: bowl with black splashes

: berry bowl with textured handle

: small two-tone bowl

: tumbler and mug

: textured cups

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One of my co-workers at West Noble Primary ran the Boston Marathon this year. She had already finished the race and was out of the way when the explosions happened. But she and another teacher wanted to raise some funds to help some of the runners and onlookers that weren’t so fortunate.

They asked if I would help them make a T-shirt design and so I did. Below are two of the final designs and the actual shirt. I can’ t take credit for the idea but I helped them get their idea onto paper using Illustrator. I even used the perspective grid more than I ever have before.

: change for boston shirt

: boston design 1

: boston design 2

Kids could bring in coins to donate and they all walked together today during recess. Quite a few staff members bought shirts and wore them today. I’m glad I could be a part of it.

Here’s a rough draft that I liked. Probably because it reminds me of FRINGE!

First Glaze Fire of 2013

I had a chance to fire some pieces a few weeks ago and just recently took some photos of some of my favorites. Finally today, I got the images to my computer and made them web worthy.

Warm Brown Stoneware fired to ^6.

: keep calm

: FRINGE white tulips

: FRINGE inspired mugs

: sprayed vases

: vases

: blue texture detail

: textured cups

: running glaze detail

: black and white cup detail

: stoneware cups

: small tumblers

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Glazing Pots, Adjusting Glazes

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.

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A Few Designs

A few small design projects recently.

Beads of Clay

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

WN Softball

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.