Looks like Allison is enjoying some beautiful lilacs from her Momma’s garden… lookin’ sweet in her stamped & purple glazed vase… or is that more “aubergine”???

A week later, and my art fair booth flowers are still looking pretty good.
I think they might be enjoying life on my back porch
with the cooler nights we’ve been having.

Celebrating a little Floral Friday with some beautiful flowers that my friend Rhonda grew in her yard, took some cuttings & now displaying them in my vases all over her house! A little floral collaboration in the making!!! And that yellow peony?… c’mon already… gorgeous!!!

While playing with “slip inlay” last night in my SURFACE DECORATION class, I also did a demo for simple banded stripes with slip inlay. While trimming, I carved a few thin lines into the clay. Then filled them with slip… and a little bit more to cover them. Then, when the slip dries to leatherhard, you can trim off the top surface flush to the pot to reveal these colored bands… perfectly smooth to the surface.

In the middle of my “sanggam” class demo last night, I was shaving off the extra slip in a small bowl to reveal the inlaid stamps… and I “revealed” a little something extra!!! Looks like I found a piece of plastic bag mixed in with studio’s reclaim clay!!! ugh… the “beauty” of class reclaim?!

Last night in my SURFACE DECORATION class, we did a bit of “sanggam” on these tiles to demonstrate the Korean decorative technique. I had prepped the tiles with stamps & slip ahead of time. And then my students “shaved” away the extra slip to reveal the pattern of now “slip-filled” stamps. It was a lot of fun as the images revealed themselves with continued scraping.

Scrape more Taylor…

EVEN MORE TAYLOR!!!

That’s so much better Taylor!!!

In preparation for last night’s class demo with my SURFACE DECORATION class, I made a bunch of stoneware tiles with stamped impressions. I then filled the stamps & slathered on some thick white slip ahead of time to get it all to stiffen up to leatherhard. The plan is to discus “sanggam” as a technique where they will “shave off” the top layer of slip to reveal the stamped pattern… leaving it filled with slip & flush to the top of the tile! More to come…

Last night in my Advanced Beginner’s class, we closed out the evening with a little stamp-making demo & interactive making session. Hopefully I can get these stamps bisque-fired soon enough for them to start using before the class session ends!!!

So last week in my SURFACE DECORATION class, we focused on Mishima. Basically coating the pot with wax, and then carving through with sharp tools… like our favorite DiamondCore Tools! Then you fill the carvings with some underglazes… inlaying the carved patterns. The wax allows you to wipe away the “background” area more cleanly & easily. Then during bisque, the wax disappears & then it’s ready for glazing!!!

So last week I did another “quick” throwing session making a bunch of basic cylinders. I had a plan… and I knew that some of my students would have fun “playing” with them!