Here’s Mike, mugging it up in ceramics class.
Mike
Today I am fulfilling the assignment: make something that stands at least 12 inches tall. So I will make a pitcher. Actually, I want to make a series of three, perhaps graduated in height. I have a plan for a three-sided pitcher, Dave helped me design it the other night. I need some advice from Mr. Bradley on the handle’s strength. This can be made with any of the techniques we have learned so far. I will make this pitcher from leather-hard slabs. That means I have to roll it out, texture and design the surface and get it out in the sun to dry right away so that I will have time to mess with it during class today. Maybe I will take it home and work on it this weekend.
This weekend I am going on a ceramics studio self-guided tour of artists in Phoenix. These ceramicists are opening their doors to students on these two days. They each have other (visiting) potters there. I suppose they will be selling their wares. I am mostly interested in the kilns.
I am having a hard time finding a good fuel to fire my ‘third-world kiln’.
Saturday I will be going out in the central Phoenix area with my pal, Liz, the photographer. Sunday Mike, from ceramics class, and I will go around the north Phoenix area. I don’t hope to find an alternative-fueled kiln, but I can pick some brains.
My beads got fired yesterday, I can’t wait to see how they turned out. I left the stick in to make the bead hole. The stick will just burn out. I have another piece with newspaper inside to hold the shape. Curious to see what the burning material does, I thought of adding glass beads, string, weight loss pills, anything you could think of that will burn, just to see the effect. Guess I should ask the teacher if it’s a good idea.
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