Tumbler 27

One of my favorites so far!  I wrapped the tumbler with a vinyl belt then dipped the bottom in light blue.  Then I dipped the top half in Kook's blue (love how it goes purple), doubling the glaze up in a thick pile over the resist.  When I removed the vinyl, some glaze flaked off, and you can see the result left a little residual fingerprint.

Recycled cone 10 stoneware, glaze

In progress.

Drippy goodness.

Tumbler 26

Another vinyl resist piece--this is actually one of the first ones I experimented on.  The recycled clay shows its pretty natural color in a nice contrast to the turquoise and blue (that was supposed to be copper red, but whatever).

Recycled cone 10 stoneware, glaze

Tumbler 22

Here's that pesky Rietz Blue again!  I think because the clay body has some iron in it (it's recycled, so who really knows what's going on in there), brown gets pulled out and speckles the blue.  The black top is nicely metallic and the belt in the middle is more matte.

cone 10 stoneware, glaze

 I'm still on INSTAGRAM.

Tumbler 21

Yellow salt is an interesting glaze and reminds me of freckled skin.  And I love freckles.  You can slightly see vertical stripes that I painted on with brown slip before bisque.  The bottom is dipped in Rietz Blue, which goes brown, as you saw in the last post.

cone 10, glaze, mason stain

FRAACKLES!!

Tumbler 20

Here we go again!  

I painted slip dyed with dark chocolate brown mason stain on this tumbler before bisque firing--you can see the paint strokes under the glaze.  The glaze on bottom is supposed to be blue, but only goes blue when it mixes with the top dipped celadon.  I still don't really understand this stuff.

cone 10 stoneware, brown slip, glaze

Pendants

When I have a bit of clay left over from making a thing, I like to use the cast off piece for pendants.  Sometimes the texture is already on the surface from Making a Thing: Round One, and sometimes I like to smush the clay into a stamp I already have.  I'll use Stroke & Coat, mason stains, and other glazing techniques and mixtures to see what happens.  These are basically test tiles and sometimes they come out really great.  I have thrown plenty away--I learned what I needed to from those and don't need them cluttering up my life.

I'm adding these to my Etsy store as I get to them.

pendant family

made with a homemade stamp; matte blue and glossy jade Stroke and Coat

red and black S&C before bisque; blue glaze over whole thing after.
I used a toilet paper roll as a cookie cutter for these round ones.

made with a homemade stamp; matte blue and yellow Stroke and Coat before bisque, antique green glaze after

made with found woodcarving-turned-stamp; cone 10 glaze fired with wipe on/off technique

stamp made with grate found in my basement; custom glaze made with mason stain filled into holes

made with a homemade stamp; cone 10 Iron Saturate glaze

I have lots more...and I'll be making lots more, too!

Tumbler 18

I applied a vinyl strip on the raw clay surface before dunking it in glaze.  After the glaze dried I peeled off the vinyl and this is the result...Although the glaze is pretty neutral color (supposed to be celadon, but whatever),  you can see some flashing showed up on the raw clay, giving it a bit of a red tinge.  I love that the line is super crisp and simple.  More of these for sure!

recycled stoneware, cone 10, glaze

flashin'

Tumbler 17

Watery goodness for a water cup.  Top glaze is glossy white, bottom is turquoise oribe (or-ee-bay), which is a little metallic and pleasingly vibrant.

recycled cone 10 stoneware, two glazes

Tumbler 16

I covered this whole tumbler in brown slip and you can see where some of it built up along the edges of the brush.  Glazed the top half in white and the bottom half in Carmel 14, which left a nice overlap in the middle.

mason stain slip, recycled cone 10 stoneware, glazes

drips happen

I took a type writer key and labeled the bottom of this series of tumblers with a T for Cone Ten (I did the same with a 6 for cone 6) because it can get pretty hard to tell them apart after they've been fired.  If you glaze fire cone 6 in a cone 10 kiln, it melts, and that is very bad...and expensive because it can ruin the kiln shelves and others' pieces.

Tumbler 15

 Back to tumblers!  These are made of recycled cone 10 stoneware.  This particular one I striped with chocolate brown mason stain-ed slip before firing.  I never know if the stripes will show up once glaze is applied, but this worked quite well.

mason stain, Carmel 14 glaze, cone 10 recycled stoneware

mason stain, Carmel 14 glaze, cone 10 recycled stoneware

I left tracks behind where I was holding the tumbler when I dipped it in glaze.
It's like a signature I guess.

White Vase with Seam

Another cylinder vase with a decorated seam.  This was supposed to be a bluish celedon, but that just didn't happen.  It's a nice neutral, though.

hand-built cylinder from recycled cone 10 clay

Again, pretty messy in there.

A lot of the iron in the clay got pulled out by the white glaze upon firing.

There was a bit of wipe on/wipe off action before I painted the celedon on the
seam decoration...just that little bit of thinning of the glaze really changes the surface color.

Button Vase

 To hide the seam of this hand-built cylinder vase I used both the impression and expression of a grate that covers a drain in my basement, then cut those in circles.

recycled cone 10 stoneware

First, dipped in white, then painted buttons with celedon and iron saturate glazes.

Nice speckles!  And finger prints.

Clearly, I need to work on pouring evenly.  I'm very messy.

Stoneware Cat Mug in Purple and White

Double dip with Copper Red on top and white on bottom.  Yes...Copper Red, depending on the oxygen in the kiln, goes blue or celedon.  We got a nice purply color here.  And I love where the glazes run together...yum yum.

stamped cone 10 half and half cat mug, recycled stoneware

stamped cone 10 half and half cat mug, recycled stoneware

stamped cone 10 half and half cat mug, recycled stoneware

stamped cone 10 half and half cat mug, recycled stoneware

Stoneware Cat Mug in Neutral

The next several posts share a series of mugs, pendants, vases, and tumblers that I made from cone 10 recycled stoneware that was put together at the KC Clay Guild.  Many of these are prototypes or test pieces (everything is a test piece for me!).  I'm still pretty unfamiliar with using cone 10 glazes--it is truly painting blind--because the high temperatures, amount of oxygen in certain parts of the kiln, and clay body makeup all react differently with every firing.  But that's what's fun about it! ...usually.

I made stamps with my digital vinyl cutter to impress cats into the clay and let the glaze fill in and highlight without any kind of wipe on/wipe off technique.

I really didn't know what I was going to be getting with this combo.  I think I was expecting a darker top half because the glaze is called "Carmel 14" but I'm quite pleased!

recycled cone 10 stoneware, half and half dip glaze

recycled cone 10 stoneware, half and half dip glaze

recycled cone 10 stoneware, half and half dip glaze

recycled cone 10 stoneware, half and half dip glaze

I'm putting stuff up on INSTAGRAM as I see fit and enjoy hearing from you!

Ceramics V

This reddish vase was made from some free clay that was laying around the Clay Guild and given to me as a gift for being a human garbage can.  It's bronze stoneware, so it reacts with the glaze differently.  Also, it was fired to cone 10, which is complicated to explain but let's just say it gets a lot hotter in the kiln when that much energy is used.

bronze stoneware, cone 10, impressed with a little sliver tool