I did manage to make some Cone 6 clay boxes from reclaimed clay at the community studio, but most of my boxes are from Cone 10 clay bodies.
The rest of the blooms are yellow and white. Did a bee pollinate the Columbine from this geranium?
Such a lovely mystery that I don't mind that for the past few days, I've been sneezing and blowing snot galore because of spring allergies.
From the scraps of clay hollowed out, if they did not go back into the bag of clay after serious watering with the spray bottle, then I formed them into what Cassie, loading the kiln, called cool rocks.
And another rock...
And while telling my clay friend, Jeff to enter his sgraffito vase into the county fair competition, I impulsively decided to enter the one successful candelabra. If I recall rightly, the clay body is both speckled buff and Hawaiian red which I couldn't tell the difference when making it from the wet clays. And I then glazed only the flowers in honey and the vines and leaves in warm green. And yesterday in the community studio, I finally finished a similar candelabra in BMix, which I'll probably color the blooms in underglazes and then overglaze the sculptural form in khaki. I also made 3-stem taper holder also in Bmix with flowers and leaves--which I'll probably just glaze in June Perry Pink and Emerald Green and White Gloss. Must remember to photograph the greenware next weekend, during which I think they'll be bone dry enough to go into the kiln for a bisque firing. And the school kiln produced these three watercolor palettes I made. I love 'em.
Last week, I saw this on Instagram and want to sculpt something similar, but of course, I want to make it functional as a candelabra.
I LOVE THE MERMAIDS, even though I've never made any in my clay career. But if my candelabra is gonna have a mermaid, then it has be an underwater theme with coral and seaweed and starfish and a clam shell. Maybe I'll perch her in a bed of coral and the taper holders will be hidden behind long strands of giant kelp. In the meantime, I've a lot of glazing to do. Below are all the bisque pots on to which I adhered wax resist. I glazed one of the kurinuki boxes in Rutile, an iridescent glaze with a lovely blue cast, and the other box in Coleman Red, an oxblood glaze with purple and blue undertones if I'm lucky.
I also glazed a cup or bowl in Shino because I loved the sample with brown and pearlescent orange and another pot in cobalt oxide and blue celadon. I've still a lot more pots on which to decide which Cone 10 glazes.
Yesterday, I also noticed the big bloom on my moon cactus. A few months ago, the pup fell off, but I kept the root stock in the pot. I noticed a couple weeks ago, a pup on one of the bottom spines. And lo and behold, it BLOOMED. Holy moly, is it surreal.
Earlier in the week, I noticed that my Columbine contained red in its bloom. Where the heck did that peachy red come from?
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