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Fun with Texture
I mainly make functional stoneware pieces fired to ^6 in an electric
kiln. I want to experiment with some fun textering and embedding and was looking for ideas. For example, I know a potter who occasionally fires some pieces wrapped in gauze and has even done a couple of pieces where she wrapped slip dipped gauze around a balloon, popped the balloon when slip was dry and fired the piece like that. So, if you have any fun ideas please share :-) LMac |
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I mainly make functional stoneware pieces fired to ^6 in an electric kiln. I want to experiment with some fun textering and embedding and was looking for ideas. For example, I know a potter who occasionally fires some pieces wrapped in gauze and has even done a couple of pieces where she wrapped slip dipped gauze around a balloon, popped the balloon when slip was dry Not-too-well mixed slip applied is nice. Cheesecloth dipped in slip. Extrusions from the little tiny hand-held extruders. Textured and torn pieces applied. Linda D |
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"Lcdumas" wrote in message ... I mainly make functional stoneware pieces fired to ^6 in an electric kiln. I want to experiment with some fun textering and embedding and was looking for ideas. For example, I know a potter who occasionally fires some pieces wrapped in gauze and has even done a couple of pieces where she wrapped slip dipped gauze around a balloon, popped the balloon when slip was dry Not-too-well mixed slip applied is nice. Cheesecloth dipped in slip. Extrusions from the little tiny hand-held extruders. Textured and torn pieces applied. Linda D Lace too, I have not done it but apparently cotton lace works best. I have some lace that I bought to do this with, but just haven't yet. ) |
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:01:10 -0500, Lindsay MacArthur
wrote: I mainly make functional stoneware pieces fired to ^6 in an electric kiln. I want to experiment with some fun textering and embedding and was looking for ideas. For example, I know a potter who occasionally fires some pieces wrapped in gauze and has even done a couple of pieces where she wrapped slip dipped gauze around a balloon, popped the balloon when slip was dry and fired the piece like that. So, if you have any fun ideas please share :-) LMac The latest Ceramics Monthly (Feb 2004) has some gorgeous texture pieces by Daphne Hatcher. She takes slabs of clay into the woods near her studio and presses them onto tree bark, then hand-builds with them. I've actually been thinking about something like this for quite a while. I want to get impressions from trees that are not nearby, and would require hiking to get to them, but I haven't decided on the best way to do this. I'm thinking of something like thin plastic freezer containers that would fit into a backpack, each one holding a slab of clay, or maybe a couple separated by something soft. Then when I get home, the clay patterns could be copied in plaster for transfer to other pieces. Or maybe wrap the clay around a drum to make a big roulette. Or bisque it and use for sprig molding the texture as a thin sheet that could be applied to something else. Lots of possibilities, once the texture itself is handy. Bob Masta dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom D A Q A R T A Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis www.daqarta.com |
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What about embedding---both things that burn off as well as things
that stay in the piece? What items have people experimented with? On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:01:10 -0500, Lindsay MacArthur wrote: I mainly make functional stoneware pieces fired to ^6 in an electric kiln. I want to experiment with some fun textering and embedding and was looking for ideas. For example, I know a potter who occasionally fires some pieces wrapped in gauze and has even done a couple of pieces where she wrapped slip dipped gauze around a balloon, popped the balloon when slip was dry and fired the piece like that. So, if you have any fun ideas please share :-) LMac |
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Something that makes a nice surface is to embed hamster litter into the clay
and then let it burn out in the kiln. Linda D |
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Is hamster litter similar to wood shavings?
On 30 Jan 2004 02:50:40 GMT, (Lcdumas) wrote: Something that makes a nice surface is to embed hamster litter into the clay and then let it burn out in the kiln. Linda D |
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:02:14 -0500, Lindsay MacArthur
wrote: What about embedding---both things that burn off as well as things that stay in the piece? What items have people experimented with? For press-molding, I've had good luck with flowers and leaves. I suspect that the same pattern could be added to an already-made piece (thrown or hand-built) by some scheme of applying slip to the surface and then pressing the articles in with plastic wrap or something. Or maybe dipping them in slip, applying to a leather-hard surface, and wiping back after it sets up a little. I've also used millet and couscous to embed tiny spheres into the surface. One issue is that when they burn out in bisque, the surface can be pretty jagged... not good for something that will be handled a lot. But it certainly has texture! Bob Masta dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom D A Q A R T A Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis www.daqarta.com |
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Another article in CM talked about using steel in conjunction with clay,
both for texture and in combination with a piece. The illustrated pieces were very beautiful and I expect to move to that in a while. The potter used various cutting torches to "fray" the edge of the metal before embedding or pressing. One question in this area--how could the steel be used within a piece without the metal burning away? I think I remember the author talking about using the two materials together? Kathy "Lindsay MacArthur" wrote in message ... What about embedding---both things that burn off as well as things that stay in the piece? What items have people experimented with? On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:01:10 -0500, Lindsay MacArthur wrote: I mainly make functional stoneware pieces fired to ^6 in an electric kiln. I want to experiment with some fun textering and embedding and was looking for ideas. For example, I know a potter who occasionally fires some pieces wrapped in gauze and has even done a couple of pieces where she wrapped slip dipped gauze around a balloon, popped the balloon when slip was dry and fired the piece like that. So, if you have any fun ideas please share :-) LMac |
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