Ceramic Creations

Sept 27th - Creating Ceramics

After completing my test pieces and drawing out some designs it was time to start making some work.

I found some leaf shaped bits that I tested out in some clay and found that they were great to use for my ideas.

Feather moulds also worked great to make a 'banana' leaf shape.

My idea at the time was to try out the method of adding cut out pieces of the clay leaves to create a 3D effect on my flatter pieces. It was going to be a combination of sgraffito, stamping and 3D bits.

These are time lapses of me cutting out shapes and stamping, I also carve on the design on the second piece.

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I chose 'flatter' forms of plates and small dishes because they work better with my designs of 'drawing' on a 'scene/landscape' It's also easier to draw on something flat as it was something i've never done before .

This first piece I glazed was a test piece I made back in the summer when I wanted to see if I could built up the landscape with clay, so the whole 'scene' is raised and textured as you can see in the picture.

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Time lapse's of the glazing process.

Each piece takes around an hour to glaze with underglazes. Sgraffito-ing is the process after and then after being bisque fired then comes the topping up of any underglazes and a final clear glaze. The process does take a while but it's worth it.

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The Results

I had some mixed feelings about the first round of work I made. Some of the colours still came out a bit different than I thought, which is to be expected as you never know what's going to come out of the kiln. But now I know not to use the colour fawn and that the pink comes out a bit to strong for my liking. Other notes I took away from this was to keep my forms smaller, the bigger ones just felt like so much space to have my designs on. I also really liked the oval forms and the more natural forms. Furthermore the stamping and sgraffito worked really well and the '3D' plants that I added are also something I want to do more of.

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