Next Batch
Sep. 9th, 2019 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mafiefI’ve made a few pottery posts this year, I’ve decided I’m fine with it. My creative pottery muse is having fun. I’ve worked on a few new mugs and sugar bowls.
(Ignore the small images. I'm not fighting with DW to figure out how to make them larger today. They are thumbnails so you can get a close up view if you want.)
I continued with the bee theme and I wanted to etch a bee on a hexagon sugar bowl. I don’t sketch well enough or confidently enough to free hand it, but I’ve got mad tracing skills. ;)
Next up were sets of mugs for friends. I’m thrilled with out these have turned out thus far. They went through further refining and smoothing out after the pic was taken, but I forgot to update my pics. I had different challenges this time, so it was fun to figure out how to make things work. The large writing mug was more technically challenging than I expected, but that was still fun. I had to erase a few times because it didn’t look right. The large mug with small writing was also difficult because I made this design before and replicating something can be tricky. I didn’t have the gitters that day, so I’m happy with how the writing turned out. The earthenware clay mug was the first time I’ve tried little sketches, worked this technique on earthenware clay, and wrote on a curved surface.
Everything is in the process of drying or through the first firing. I’m totally looking forward to the final products.
(Ignore the small images. I'm not fighting with DW to figure out how to make them larger today. They are thumbnails so you can get a close up view if you want.)
I continued with the bee theme and I wanted to etch a bee on a hexagon sugar bowl. I don’t sketch well enough or confidently enough to free hand it, but I’ve got mad tracing skills. ;)
Next up were sets of mugs for friends. I’m thrilled with out these have turned out thus far. They went through further refining and smoothing out after the pic was taken, but I forgot to update my pics. I had different challenges this time, so it was fun to figure out how to make things work. The large writing mug was more technically challenging than I expected, but that was still fun. I had to erase a few times because it didn’t look right. The large mug with small writing was also difficult because I made this design before and replicating something can be tricky. I didn’t have the gitters that day, so I’m happy with how the writing turned out. The earthenware clay mug was the first time I’ve tried little sketches, worked this technique on earthenware clay, and wrote on a curved surface.
Everything is in the process of drying or through the first firing. I’m totally looking forward to the final products.
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Date: 2019-09-10 11:09 am (UTC)It’s nice when the creative juices are flowing.
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Date: 2019-09-09 11:33 pm (UTC)Good heavens - a quote about Turkish baths ^___^ Who on earth could that mug be for? ^__^ And I love what you've done with the Mrs. Hudson mug ^___^ Is the top part a collar, or a cuff perhaps...? All your work is so gorgeous and so inventive.
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Date: 2019-09-10 11:14 am (UTC)Lol, hmmmmm I wonder. ;)
The cuff/collar is one of my mom’s signature looks. She calls it a grommet. The tube is formed from a flat piece that’s been curled up. That leaves a problem of the seam. It can either be covered up or decorated as part of the finish piece. She likes using it as decoration.
Thanks :)
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