Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Flower vase

This vase I made last month. I applied blue slip, while slip. Underglaze color - turquoish blue, dark blue, terracotta and white. Glazaed it with clear. The color is not exactly what I was looking for. Terracotta interacted with blue during glazing and turned dark brown :(  
Also the brush strokes were not good because I could not see properly.

Monday, November 7, 2011

my casserole ...



The lid got stuck. Always better not to put glaze under the lid. Wax it really carefully, specially the sides or with more sharp edge. I tapped from all the sides and after an hour-effort finally it came out.
In tapping just do it patiently, gently. Use any kind of wooden object for this.
After that I rubbed it with stone to make sure that it opens easily.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Clay Plate - tried with under-glaze ...



  Really upset by the green color for the leaves. Somehow the glaze ate all the green colors.
  So a valuable lesson learned ! Never try light green under-glaze colors with traditional glaze.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

My First project

First project of anything is the most interesting ! I was really excited about it.
Clay part is not that bad, went smooth. Thanks to Lynne :-)
Glazing part indeed turned out to be nice. I liked the color very much :-)

3 days of work.