Jan 12
Cuerda Seca means “dry cord” and refers to using a waxed cord to separate areas of glaze. I’ve used a waxed beeswax cord before, and it’s not the best tool. Better is to use wax trailed from a jacquard bottle, especially wax with stain added, wax which has been designed for this purpose. Since this is the …
Nov 22
Here’s the finished number plaque that I made the poppy tiles for (shown in an earlier post). I cut the background green tiles out of stained glass, with the help of my daughters (since ones hand hurts after cutting too many tiles, I needed help.) Cutting the background tiles was rather time-consuming, but it saves …
Oct 05
Oct 03
I made these just so I’d have enough ware to fill the kiln. I rolled out slabs of 1/4 inch clay and stamped it with some of my commercially purchased rubber stamps. Then I cut them with small cookie cutters designed for working with clay. The glaze choice wasn’t the best; in other firings, this …
Sep 06
These are the seedpods and buds that I made for my tile mosaic project. To make the seedpods, I rolled out a cone and indented it to show where the inner seed capsules had dried and shrunk in on themselves. then I added a disk at the top, incised with lines to look like the …
