Upcoming Workshop

This workshop is called Branching Out.  We'll be making two pieces again...

 First we'll make this wood tone frame with a Creative Image branch fired onto it.

We'll also be painting this lovely tray with a simple but elegant branch of flowers.

Hope to see you at this one.  We'll meet at Baked Goods Pottery on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. The cost is $60 and includes all supplies and materials.  And you'll have two great pieces to add to your collection or to give as gifts.

Happy New Year! Here's a Pie, a Skull, and Jewelry

More pieces to show.

First, here's the scary skull after firing.  Very shiny but grungy

The pie turned out delicious.  The apples have a little more red in them than I would like.

Here's the swirled clay pieces after glazing and firing.

I then decided to make some jewelry with decals. 2 gold, a dichroic film, and a creative image.

Added a few ebellishments to the jewelry and made a 5th dichroic glass piece.  Ready to fire.

Two Finished Projects and Two WIPs

This plate needed something so I wrote on it with a Pebeo pen and baked it in.

Orange plate with flowers all fired up and finished.

Two more WIPs.  This tropical leaf plate wasn't selling so I made a new sample for it - inspired by Tim McPhearson's ornament dish owl design.  Actually the second try on the lemon soap dish.  I tried white crackle glaze first and the color faded into it and the crackling was less than stellar.  Here I'm using cobblestone.  It's cracking a lot.  I'll have to be careful not to flake any off before it goes in the kiln.

Frame with Elm branch

I finished this frame with a kind of wood look.  I pre-painted the leaves behind the creative image.  As you can see, I missed a couple of them - oh well.  Parker deigned to model for the picture.

Finished Eiffel Plate

Just a quickie. A finished plate with an image of the Eiffel tower.  It faded a little more than I wanted - not sure if it's because of the pink base glaze, or too high a firing temperature.