#pottery process

[fleurdelucienne]

Experimenting more with these Arthur’s journal pieces! Trying a red clay as the inlay text (once fired, the cup will be bright white and the text dark red). A quick time lapse of the last step of the mishima process:

After I’ve carved the quote and painted the colored slip over the top of it, I let it set up for a couple hours before I scrape it off the surface, leaving the carving inlaid with the colored clay. It’s deeply satisfying, and one of the reasons I love using this technique.

[claypigeonpottery]

carved a possum tile today and made a tutorial on sgraffito! I’m still really new to editing videos so let me know if something needs work

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[kittyweyr]

This $1 Dremel grinder but works amazing on glaze when submerged in water!

My setup:

Dremel bit, hand drill on fastest speed setting.

Plastic container of water, sponge to press against to stabilize piece

Wood clamp to keep container stable so no sloshing water.

[andresgcordero]

[fleurdelucienne]

These (and a few more) Cyberpunk pieces are headed into the kiln today for their first firing! They’ll be fired twice more after that - next for glaze, and then a third time for the gold luster for the cyberware accents. I’m trying out some new designs after studying character models some more (mostly Kerry Eurodyne…because, of course), and I’m excited to see how these come together!

[fleurdelucienne]

I adore these ceramic Kingdom Come Deliverance-inspired medieval tankards I made, and I can’t stop taking pictures of them.

I took inspiration from tankard styles in both games:

These have been a true labor of love, as each one is hand-carved and hand-painted, and I’ve included some process pictures and explanation behind the cut!

I use a pottery wheel to throw the mug “blanks,” and then I cut the handles out of a slab of clay (using a template I created) before attaching them to the mug body.

After that, I hand carve the wood grain texture as well as the leather wrap or metal bands (depending on which style). Then they get their first firing in the kiln to prep them for being painted with underglaze.

After painting them, they get fired for a second time in the kiln to set the first layer of underglaze. The next step involves using a black underglaze wash to pick up all the carved texture and give them a weathered look. The wash is painted over the whole body of the mug and then wiped away so that only what’s in the carved texture remains. You can see that in this picture with the slight gray cast (the wash gets much darker when fired):

The last step is glazing the interior of the mug to make them food-safe, and adding a thin layer of satin glaze over the “metal” bands to give them a slight sheen. Then they’re fired for a third and final time in the kiln.

I often have such a desire to reach out and touch things inside my favorite media, so this is just a small way I bring that to reality.

[fleurdelucienne]

Trying out a new clay body (a different porcelain that fires to a brighter white), so I’m working through some test pieces before I make another batch of these Arthur’s journal cups.

Since I’ll keep the testers, of course I made a self-indulgent Arthur/Mary one with one of my favorite quotes carved and inlaid into it. A sketch of Arthur’s prairie poppy drawing will go on the back, but that happens later in the process…

[fleurdelucienne]

Wanted to illustrate the mishima process! The first two images show the carved cup and then how it looks once I paint the colored slip (liquid clay) over the design. After letting it sit under plastic overnight, I scrape off the excess slip with a metal rib. My black porcelain needs some tweaking, but once I get that sorted, I’m going to make some more of these!