Jan 05
My sister was visiting, and we wanted to do a craft project together. I figured we could do glazing, because she doesn’t have a kiln at home. I’d been thinking of doing some glazing, and a week or so earlier I’d added water to all of my low-fire glazes, which had dried out. I had …
Nov 28
This is as project I did this summer as a gift for a couple of people I like very much. I used the glass tiles that they had bought for a kitchen remodel. They gave me the leftovers to use in one of my tile projects, and now I’m giving them back. I chose the …
Feb 09
This is a mosaic I did last year with some tiles I’ve made over the years. Here’s a picture of it installed. All of these tiles are ones I’ve made myself.
Mar 02
I made several small, plain tiles so that I could experiment with wax resist and painterly techniques. I painted this using black underglaze. My tiles are hand pounded (and rolled) so the consistency isn’t ideal, but that’s kind of the point of hand-made tiles. This is about four inches square and about a quarter of …
Feb 21
This is the last of the batch of mosaic tiles I made in this kiln load. The crawling design on the green tiles is from overfiring. It is not intentional, but I’m going to pretend that it was. I have so many of these that at some point I ought to think of a design …
