#coil built

[marywoodartdept]

Wrapping Ceramic

Dominique, sculpture, comes up with a creative solution for a client's rattlesnake tails in "Wrapping Ceramic"

I’ve recently just finished a ceramic piece that I made for a client. She had a few rattle snake tails that she wanted wrapped around the neck of the vessel. I came up with a design a while back. Then I finished throwing and coil-building the piece. I wanted to make sure she liked it before I had it bisque fired and glazed. I sent the client pictures of the glazes that were available and she…

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[treasures-and-beauty]

June Ridgeway The work is coil built, burnished and saggar fired. Inspiration is from a number of sources: erosion or weathering, just as the patina of age takes its course over any surface subjected to the elements, so the smoke and the added ingredients placed in the saggar, such as salt, wire, oxides, make their unique marks directly on the satin, burnished surface of the piece.

[mudbath]

[mudbath]

Coil built rabbit vessel, Nicolas Ortiz.