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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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