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buzzy_bee and I went to an evening pottery workshop and made tiles and threw pots. A short while after that, the pottery teacher emailed to say the fruits of our labours were now fired and available, and a long while after that I actually managed to go and get them.
Here are my tiles:
They didn't turn out quite like I thought they would, as the glazes look very different before they're fired, and most of mine was colour not texture. The one with a separate round tile in the middle was meant to be darker, and look like a kind of floating sun. The lightness of the yellow also means the penguin's feet don't show up. I don't quite know what to do with those, and the weird stripey one, maybe crock, if I had a need for crock?
This is the one I really like:
I painted it blue first and then flicked white glaze for stars or snow (whichever it looks most like), then black buildings. Once it had dried a little I gouged out the windows with a little stick. It's currently propped up on my windowsill.
Here is the number 7 in situ outside my flat:
I painted the tile and textured it, then popped a separate clay 7 on top while I painted over it all, and took it off. It's attached to the wall with command strips, which seem to be holding up pretty well.
On the wheel I made a pot and a bowl. (Did you know that, although most wheels now go either way, in the west the default is clockwise, and in the far east, particularly China, the default is anti-clockwise? The teacher didn't explain why.)
I enjoyed using the wheel, it was trickier than I remembered from the one time we go to use the wheels at school. They are rather wobbly. If you had bought them from a charity place where elephants did art that looks pretty dreadful but is done by a trunk,you'd think they looked AMAZING, though.
And here is a bonus picture of the cushion cover I made in my sewing workshop a month or so ago. Look how neat my seam is!
buzzy_bee and I went to an evening pottery workshop and made tiles and threw pots. A short while after that, the pottery teacher emailed to say the fruits of our labours were now fired and available, and a long while after that I actually managed to go and get them. Here are my tiles:
They didn't turn out quite like I thought they would, as the glazes look very different before they're fired, and most of mine was colour not texture. The one with a separate round tile in the middle was meant to be darker, and look like a kind of floating sun. The lightness of the yellow also means the penguin's feet don't show up. I don't quite know what to do with those, and the weird stripey one, maybe crock, if I had a need for crock?
This is the one I really like:
I painted it blue first and then flicked white glaze for stars or snow (whichever it looks most like), then black buildings. Once it had dried a little I gouged out the windows with a little stick. It's currently propped up on my windowsill.
Here is the number 7 in situ outside my flat:
I painted the tile and textured it, then popped a separate clay 7 on top while I painted over it all, and took it off. It's attached to the wall with command strips, which seem to be holding up pretty well.
On the wheel I made a pot and a bowl. (Did you know that, although most wheels now go either way, in the west the default is clockwise, and in the far east, particularly China, the default is anti-clockwise? The teacher didn't explain why.)
I enjoyed using the wheel, it was trickier than I remembered from the one time we go to use the wheels at school. They are rather wobbly. If you had bought them from a charity place where elephants did art that looks pretty dreadful but is done by a trunk,you'd think they looked AMAZING, though.
And here is a bonus picture of the cushion cover I made in my sewing workshop a month or so ago. Look how neat my seam is!
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Date: 2014-03-29 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-03-29 08:05 pm (UTC)If they fail, the adhesive-in-a-tube "No More Nails" will keep it in situ forever.
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Date: 2014-03-29 08:24 pm (UTC)They're basically that sort f adhesive foam that you get to back pictures in albums sometimes, only much stronger. They're also supposed to be removable once ou're done with them, without affecting the adhesiveness.
The wall's uneven, and sort of stippled (not quite the right word, looks a bit like that anti-graffiti rough paint), so I thought the foaminess would give it a better chance of gripping enough surface, but I will try no more nails if it fails!
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Date: 2014-03-29 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 08:40 am (UTC)Could you break up the tiles you don't like and turn them into a mosaic?
I thought stars when I saw the tile with the buildings on it.
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Date: 2014-03-30 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 04:01 pm (UTC)I failed miserably using the Potters wheel at school but it's one of those things I've always wanted to try again.
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Date: 2014-03-30 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 12:15 pm (UTC)Your tiles are really nice, it's a shame the glazes didn't come out as you expected. Looks like a few weren't applied thickly enough but there may also have been a firing temperature issue, some of them are very sensitive to that.
I think throwing takes a lot of practice, i never did master it fully but then we only had 2 wheels for the class so I didn't get to practice as often as I would have liked. It is great fun though and your bowls still look nice :)
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