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Sunday Ceramics 13

Sunday Ceramics

Hello and Welcome to Lucky Thirteen, the end of daylight saving edition of Sunday Ceramics.

Today I shall start with some housekeeping.

The idea of Sunday Ceramics was to have a place on the internet to fill the space left by Adriana’s Mud Colony blog. I have made some good clay friends through Mud Colony and with Adriana’s blessing I started the Sunday Ceramics Link up, so that we could continue to have a conversation about clay via our blogs and to also keep that sense of community going.

I don’t know about you, but I work in isolation and can often go for days and days without seeing anyone other than, The Spouse or the shop assistant at the IGA.

I like to see what people are doing in their studios, because it feeds my own creativity or reminds me of things that I had forgotten that I wanted to try or a glaze technique will send me off on an interesting tangent.

Sunday Ceramics was not set up as a space to just drop your link and run, there are some rules. One of the rules is to add a link in your blog post directing people here, so that they in turn can find the other blogs in the link up. That is how a link up works. It is a two way street.

The link is open all week and you can add your blog post anytime you like as long as you include a link back here to me, a comment would also be nice so that I get a notification that you have been here.

Now onto the clay.

I have been making rocks again, skulls and rocks. I have been slip casting cups as well, but it has mostly been free form work happening this week. I needed a new bird bath, so I made two large concave platters from reclaimed clay and I accidentally made a soft folded soap dish.

I was messing about with a slab and I wasn’t happy with the shape, so my mind wandered off onto a tangent and I folded the edges, thinking about making a hanging pot that I could thread some twine through.

folded soap dish.

I liked how the folded edges looked, so I discarded the idea of threading anything through the folds and compressed the edges together. This has ended up turning into a lovely soft shape that I am quite taken with.

folded soap dish

I was told once, that you first need to know the rules before you can break them properly.

I am making a totem. These pieces are about the size of half a house brick and I will work up to some larger pieces for the base that will be about the size of a basketball.

I have just poked a hole through a ball of BRT clay with a piece of broom handle. I have added bits of LGH white stoneware to see what happens. I might also paint on some porcelain slip in parts as well.

detail of rock totems 2

detail of rock totem

More skulls, the unglazed BRT is growing on me, though I still dislike the iron spots, but for outside pieces that I can mostly ignore, they work well enough against the bricks.

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The drunken whisky tourists have been posting lots of photos on their trek from distillery to distillery. This is a topiary shark they photographed in Railton and now I am thinking of making a shark’s jaw, to place in a shrubbery somewhere.

topiary shark

That is me for the week.

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  • river April 6, 2014, 5:05 pm

    The skulls look fabulous against the bricks! And I’m quite taken with the shark topiary.
    I don’t add to the linky because my blog isn’t about clay or ceramics.

    I have a kitten, pop over and meet her……

  • Krista Petrauskas April 6, 2014, 8:45 pm

    I don’t have a blog either – but shared it on Facebook –
    I thought it was a good post and you make clay so accessible and everything you said was necessary

  • smartcat April 7, 2014, 2:50 am

    You’ve been busy! Go for the shark jaws. I may have a spot for one.

  • Shawna April 7, 2014, 10:41 am

    LOVE the skulls against the brick background! A great composition for sure! What kind of items are you going to put on your totem? Are you making it with a specific theme in mind?

    Shawna
    jsbarts.blogspot.com

  • Anna April 7, 2014, 6:38 pm

    love the soft rim of that folded edged vessel… and the shark, can just see you doing that one :0

  • Elephant's Child April 13, 2014, 10:44 am

    Some pieces which set my mind wandering this week. Thank you. And love that shark…