May 11
After I stamped the image, the second step was to cut them out and lay them gently into styrofoam meat trays. I pushed the clay into the corner to get a neat shape, and then trimmed the edges. I’ve done a lot of these. It’s not as easy as it looks. The less you touch …
May 09
I’ve resisted using rubber stamps in my pottery before, preferring the ones I’ve made myself out of bisqued clay, but I shouldn’t have. Rubber stamps are available in so many different designs, and there are things you can do with stamps that you can’t do with any other tool.
May 07
Except for the first one, all these plates have a very similar design. This one has a glaze flaw on the edges. This is what happens when the cobalt carbonate is too thick.
May 03
This is my first plate of a series of six. It was kind of a first try, because I ended up using a different technique for the later ones.
Apr 26
After I finished silkscreening my tee shirts, I wanted to see if I could use blockprinting ink on the silkscreen. I had to wash the silkscreening ink off, and it specifically said that you mustn’t have any ink on the silk or you would ruin it, so I scrubbed fiercely. I didn’t realize that the …
