The slabs of clay can be used for lots of different projects. This project needs precision in measuring, cutting and assembling the slabs and the consistence of clay must be not too soft. Remember to use "slurry" clay to join the slabs on the edges, after having scratched the surfaces to be joined. The surface of the box may be textured, carved or decorated, and in the same way you can build a … [Read more...]
Coil vase with a ‘not round’ base
March 15, 2013 by 6 Comments
Starting from any shape as base of the vase, you can model a vase not round, by growing as a free shape in your hands. The coils follow the shape of the base and then they can widen and narrow as you like. Here's my vase made with this technique. I glazed the interior of the pot, and I colored the outer surface with manganese oxide. … [Read more...]
Pinch Pot Animals
February 18, 2013 by 1 Comment
The most simple technique to realize a little animal with clay is the Pinch Pot : use just your fingers, first the thumb and then all the fingers to create a fish, a bird, a dragon, a turtle, a lizard, an alien!! Only a recommendation: always remember to open a small hole in the bottom of your sculpture! … [Read more...]
The Box Shop
February 15, 2013 by 5 Comments
Inspired by the marvelous work that she has seen on the blog reciclando en la escuela, Laura realized a little Box Shop into a cardboard packaging of a lamp that I bought yesterday. She enjoyed to create the spaces, to find the signs, to cut the little clothes... This is a great way to use the things you normally throw away ... This is poetry that you can create from trash! By recycling you may … [Read more...]
Ceramic slab boxes
January 30, 2013 by 2 Comments
We used the slab technique for make these boxes. After the first fire we painted with engobe colours and then we glaze them. With second fire we fixed colours and glaze, here is the result! … [Read more...]
Essences ceramic diffuser
June 9, 2012 by 6 Comments
Building with coils, the essences ceramic diffuser must be large enough for a candle. You can build the container for the candle and the cup for the essences separately and then you can join them. When the clay as hard as leather you can cut the opening for the candle and some openwork decoration behind. After the first firing you can decorate with engobe and glaze with transparent glaze. The … [Read more...]
Recycled polystyrene foam printing
May 5, 2012 by 5 Comments
I used recycled polystyrene foam from pizza’s package to do matrices for hand printings. I used acrylic colour spreaded on the matrix by a flat brush and I printed by hand with a light and evenly pressure. polystyrene foam carve with with a sharp pencil foam matrix painted by acrylic colour and hand printed matrices and … [Read more...]
Ceramic soap dish with leaf’s print
March 25, 2012 by 12 Comments
This is red clay, we added texture with leaves pressing them on the clay slab, then we put the slab in a small dish to give it the curved shape (it's possible also to dry it with a hairdryer). When it is dry you fire in the kiln and paint the leaf impression with dark brown, then you can sponge it off. The light color is the last color we've painted. The colors are like SLIP COLORED CLAY, but … [Read more...]
Mono Printing Workshop
March 14, 2012 by 6 Comments
On Monday 12th March I had an interesting Printing Workshop at the Oriel Q – Queens Hall Gallery in Narberth (Pembrokeshire, UK), where we experienced the mono printing and gum arabic transfer with the teachers Sally James and Lesley Crawley. Here my prints and matrices and those of other participants. It was a really exciting! The sample of our … [Read more...]
Ceramic: little house to hang
February 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Another idea, very easy to do with thin slab of clay and coloured with glazed engobe colours. … [Read more...]
