Porcelain BIG mugs - New - with red and blue lino cut dots.

Oh i'm happy the way these lovely big hand build porcelain mugs turned out.
I have been experimenting with linoleum cutting. And started out with an easy funky
design - Dots - one mug in red and the other in blue.
And and etching technic was applied.
Funky aren't they.
Because of the thin porcelain slabs they are not totally round in the top diameter.
But that gives each mug it own character - no two are the same!!

And a bit translucent

An easy holding mug!

And some of those funky details...





























And you can order these two in the online shop if you like.
Also have a pair in an other technic and more will follow - love to make these!! :)

Porcelain shards - A samples for new work

These porcelain shards are made of broken cups - i made them and i was kind of clumsy :)
But ideal for some experiments with iron oxide on lino cut dots with some carving in between.
The mugs that survived i will show you soon.
They have to be fired - and they have some red, orange and caoblet blue dots.

Ceramic technics - Bowl edges!!

Last wednesday on the SKVR - the students were really creative with there edges!!
Here are just two of the nice rims/edges made that evening.

Do you have experimented with edges of your work?

Ceramic technics - Linoleum cutting - My first attempt :)

I have taken the ecourse of Diana Faith - Surfacing Spring 2012.
Was nice and my first ecourse.... going with the social media type of things :)

Unfortunatly time i did not really have - but bit by bit i'm trying out the technics that were in this course.
All farmiliar ones like Mishima, mono printing and linoleum cut use...
Love her work!!

Here is my first attempt with linoleum cuts....
I have used a artificial plastic kind of linoleum - that is more flexibel than the real thing.
You can use it in different ways but here i used to print on my ceramic {porcelain} slabs.

The cutting of little circles. Look out for your fingers!

Rubbing some underglazes on the linoleum

Here is my attempt on a bone dry porcelain cup!

 

And in mandarin orange with some carving.

Soon i will post some more pictures - i got smarter in the process ;)

With clearer details of my lino cuts!!

The first mugs will be bisc fired in a few days - looking forward to the end result.

Here some links in style of the post.

janestreetclayworks.com

ohsobeautifulpaper.com

Happy claying :)

Emily Reason - Cup of the week (14) - Ceramics

Emily Reason's cup is the cup of week 14.

Love the way she makes the foor of each cup like playful flowers.

The work is fired to 2,345°F in a reduction atmosphere lending rich and varied color as well as rendering the wares strong and durable.

Emily Reason {webstite}