Making a bowl. This was the last piece I made before coming to Japan. The clay is a combination of @keaneceramics Toast, Dark Matter and Special K, with fired and unfired grog plus extra additives. Some have DM’d me regarding clay additives I use. Please check my profile links as I have a free downloadable PDF on using additives. There is a paid online course too with @the.ceramic.school I did last year. So essentially I made a bowl, or garden planter, that looks like it is made with ro...
S H A P E S / 2 . The noodle soup from Kung Fu Panda doesn’t have secret ingredients. The ceramic craft does. Patience. By working in stages and letting the base dry, we can master the clay. . La sopa de fideos de Kun Fu Panda no tiene ingredientes secretos. El oficio cerámico si. la paciencia. Trabajando en etapas, dejando secar la base, podremos dominar el barro . . . . . . #wildclay #uniquedesing #handmadeceramicart #handmade-decor #interiorproject #wabisabi #poetryofsimplethings
Here is a ceramicist confession: I haven’t used a pottery wheel in 23 years. 🤷🏻♀️ The wheel never clicked for me, but I loved to play with legos as a kid and stacking shapes made more sense to me. 🟤 🔶 🟣 Making things at a faster speed by combining clay slab parts I make out of bowl molds and templates is a simple way to construct large scale things…. quickly. 🏺 This way I can create voluminous forms that may look wheel-made at first sight, but on closer inspection they show the hand of the ...