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ClayWorks Making
Here is gallery of pictures of work in progress at ClayWorks.......same clay.......all different. The intention is to show pictures of techniques.
![]() Catching up with throwing | ![]() Steve Kingsford Garden Pots | ![]() Prototype bowls for Gaza cooking |
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![]() Cottage in mould 02 | ![]() Cottage in mould 03 | ![]() Cottage out of mould 01 |
![]() Cottage in mould 01 | ![]() Bisuit fired cottage | ![]() Took the pug mill apart with the intention of cleaning it and then using it for white clay..... Nahhh |
![]() Wanted to give it a quick clean to recycle porcelain. Not a quick job so maybe another pug mill instead....? | ![]() Ellies plaque | ![]() Nayeems plaque |
![]() Debbies plaque | ![]() Bills plaque | ![]() Simons plaque |
![]() Peters plaque | ![]() Raku hand built pots | ![]() Raku hand built thrown |
![]() Raku Polar Bear | ![]() A stack of cats | ![]() Owl stuck to somebody elses vase.... |
![]() Same size ..... but then they shrink | ![]() Same clay... | ![]() Waiting to be Raku'd |
![]() Bisque fired.. a model for photo shoot | ![]() After throwing | ![]() Before throwing |
![]() Having a go at bubble glaze | ![]() This looks under fired from when the last element broke... will try again | ![]() Having a go at bubble glaze.... see how it fires |
![]() Another buster element... | ![]() Trying to catch up with biscuit | ![]() Stuck again! a bit of an over fire when lid not closed properly |
![]() It will be an egg when finished | ![]() Part way through mould making 01 | ![]() Carefully remove the packing |
![]() Nice overlapping glazes | ![]() I'm sure I didn't sign up for this... | ![]() How hot did you say..? |
![]() Cast and water eroded porcelain tea light holders | ![]() Assembled peices | ![]() Nice under glaze stippled around a template |
![]() Two arty dogs | ![]() Textured dish | ![]() Arty dogs out of biscuit fire |
![]() Dry dish ready for biscuit firing | ![]() Textured pieces joined to make a bowl | ![]() Making progress |
![]() Elements needing replacement... a bit of a melt down | ![]() New plaster bowl moulds | ![]() A series of bigger vases thrown from 2.5kg of clay. Tallest this time is about 300mm |
![]() Oxides washed into the surface of a crank planter | ![]() Glaze tests | ![]() Glaze tests |
![]() Glaze tests | ![]() Even small tiles are heavy enough to bend wire in the kiln.... most survived being separated. | ![]() Slip cast chicken coming out of the mould |
![]() The mould was decorated and then the slip poured in... | ![]() Ready to come out | ![]() A porcelain lamp shade with a very runny glaze ...... shelf repairs again |
![]() combining glaze really needs to be tested... | ![]() Two leaf prints to try out the technique | ![]() Slip over a new dark porcelain from PotClays. |
![]() Slip cast pots with under glaze colours and clear glaze over | ![]() Slip test to try and widen the colour pallet | ![]() Incised decoration with black slip which has bubbled in places |
![]() Slip cast plate which has been slip decorated but slumped in the glaze fire. It was very thin | ![]() Slip decoration with clear over. | ![]() A slab slumped over a plaster hump, but it dried really quickly..... |
![]() Ring removed and touched up .... more to follow | ![]() Outer ring of slip added | ![]() An extension od the mixed slips effect with a centre area with 'blown blobs' |
![]() A slip cast bowl which had coloured slip added whilst still wet | ![]() Glaze ran on edges of this lattice bowl .... and then dripped! | ![]() Thrown but deliberately off balance. Coloured slip as first layer of decoration. |
![]() Hand built with care and hollow. White slip over St Thomas clay. | ![]() Blue under glaze colours brushed and then clear glazed. | ![]() Some of the 120 pots made for raku firing. |
![]() Lampstand with chromium under white | ![]() Flowers with underglaze | ![]() All pots made form 300g of Oxidising St Thomas ready for Raku |
![]() Blue and white slip | ![]() Bowls ready for Raku | ![]() Fine detail in underglaze |
![]() A full shelf of stoneware some with glass melted in. | ![]() Two glaze tested as part of a project to make platters of different sizes | ![]() Under glaze colours used on tiles which were biscuit fired before having a clear glaze over. |
![]() paper clay has a good strength even in very thin strands. | ![]() 8 glazes around in stripes and 10 down over them. Now need to work out what has happened?! | ![]() new molds have arrived. I'm hiding the big ones. |
![]() A small amount of glass can add another dimension to work | ![]() Bubbles in the melted glass | ![]() Stained glass off-cuts melted during glaze firing |
![]() Not enough wedging... trapped air? | ![]() Not enough slip or roughening?? | ![]() Two beginners making throwing look easy! |
![]() Out of the mould ready to be fettled | ![]() Shrinkage about 20% with this slip cast bottle | ![]() What a difference.. |
![]() | ![]() Plaster poured over the bottle. | ![]() The bottle is embedded to leave half the shape above the clay. Easy to follow the actual moulded line on the bottle. |
![]() | ![]() Detail of the cone which become the open top of the mould. | ![]() |
![]() All joints are sealed with clay. | ![]() Metal cottles fixed in place with clay | ![]() Beginnings of a plate mould. |
![]() Pieces measured, cut and ready to be assembled | ![]() Slab building with black coloured clay. | ![]() Using a ballon to 'mask' the inside of a bowl when glazing. |
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