Christmas fun! A group project before our shared Christmas meal, to make a table centre/structure on which to display and serve food. Each group was given a set amount of pugged recycled clay. There was a limited time frame for making, to focus our minds. I found myself allocated to work with three people who had very different styles and ceramic outlook to myself. I decided to 'go with it' and learn from the experience. The chosen design was a landscape inspired series of blocks with curved tops, very much as one might have drawn in Geography lessons. We discussed making some of these blocks open at the top which would be functional for salads, but rejected the idea (too functional ?) as spoiling the line of the piece. We duly planned the design on paper taking account of table sizes and the amount of clay, made numbered templates and rolled clay. The pieces required force drying then texturing, mitreing, assembling, and drying /firing to bisque. We had agreed that we would follow the guidance and glaze in white. It would look good piled up with red berries. A white glaze was duly made up and applied, the pieces re-fired in time for our Christmas lunch. What went well ?
Mistakes we made (and learnt from)
I made another mistake too. Having heard from more senior students that the christmas meal would require us to make a white serving dish of some sort, I jumped the gun and made two. These were made in porcelain, textured using a pasta roller over cling film, and the edges rolled under. following bisque firing I brushed on spectrum transparent glaze and re-fired to 1230 in and electric kiln. Having made them I did not want to waste the effort, so brought them in for use on the lunch table. They can just be seen on the left of the lunch picture above.
Ah well no mistakes are wasted!
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AuthorI am indulging my passion for ceramics by undertaking studies for an MA at UCLAN Archives
August 2021
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