03.17.2019
But they still need to be fired & glazed before adding BERRIES!!!
03.17.2019
A bowl is just a bowl… until it gets HOLES.. . and becomes a Berry Bowl.
So I start with my MKM Decorating Disk to help divide the spacing evenly.
I stick my needle tool through the holes on the disk to mark the bottom of the bowl.
And then I pull out the POWER TOOLS!!!
A power drill makes the holes so much faster & cleaner than trying to punch them out by hand. And having a few different sizes of drill bits on hand helps with the design.
Plus… I’m hoping that the clay shrinkage will help close up those big holes…
don’t want to lose any blueberries!
And then after drilling all of the holes, there’s a just a little bot of clean-up om the inside.
These little burrs are very easy to wipe off with my fingers…
but look how clean those holes are!!!
And then
03.17.2019
Lotsa bowls… LOTSA trimming!!!
Good thing I love trimming… almost as much as I love stamping!
03.13.2019
I just found two bowls that I made “awhile” back, and painted the interior with colored slip. I wrapped them up in plastic… and then apparently forgot about them. And it’s been “quite’ awhile… so they were harder & drier than I would like them to be. But with my one of my extra-sharp DiamondCore Tools they still carved like a dream!
03.12.2019
You know how I love making mugs… but I figure Spring has got to get here
at some point, so I better be ready with some Berry Bowls! So I threw my first batch…
of something “other than” mugs!!! Ha!!!
03.12.2019
Wedged balls of clay… filled with potential… oh, what to make???
Ummm… something other than mugs maybe???
03.11.2019
Just finishing another batch of mugs for MUGSHOT MONDAY…
adding some colored flashing slip accents! If all goes as planned, these slip colors
will change dramatically during the soda-firing!
03.09.2019
Another night of stamping. Another night of making mugs… my favorite.
Lots of stamping. Lots of patterns. Lots of repetition!!!
So now they’re stamped… tomorrow I plan on adding handles & colored flashing slip!
Mug One
Mug Two
Mug Three
Mug Four
Mug Five
Mug Six
Mug Seven
Mug Eight
Mug Nine
Mug Ten … whoops, I forgot to get a shot of the stamps???
Mug Eleven … again, really???… I forgot to get a shot of the stamps again???
And then to make matters even worse… I forgot to take photos of Mug Twelve all together!!!
03.09.2019
After tackling their wheelthrown spheres, we stuck with the geometric vibe, but switched over to handbuilding. And their next challenge was to handbuild a “perfect” cube… minimum of 4-inch wide. With only a half hour to finish it… they had to work fast with a dedicated plan. Many of them realized quickly that freshly thrown slabs aren’t as rigid as they would have hoped for. But they all perservered… along with some “structures” to help hold up their walls as they forged ahead. They were all a little “iffy” as the start… but quite impressive when they all came together in the final minutes!!!
For some reason, Patti & Jon decided to work together… which was adorable… but they only made ONE cube?! Not quite right… my thinking was each person should make a cube… so it makes sense that two people should make two cubes, right?
Sheesh… look at that craftsmanship… nice sharp corners there Jacob!
At the end of the thirty minutes, we had a table full of square cubes. Some had curved corners. Some were sagging a bit in the middle. All of them were pretty well assembled considering the time constraint.
And again, look at the sharp corners that Jacob had on his winning cube!
He was in the TOP TWO along with our “token” handbuilder Donna!
03.06.2019
Stamped & ready to start trimming…
and then ready for adding some colored flashing slip accents
on the ones that will be soda-fired.
