Terra Cotta: My musings on...and resulting actions with.

[Balbs]

thang

I really like this form. The feet are money. Keep up the good work man. I really enjoy this thread.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I really like this form. The feet are money. Keep up the good work man. I really enjoy this thread.

Thank you SO much for your kind words of encouragement!

It really means a lot to me.

 

[Kanorin]

With that latest cascade pot, you appear to have upped your game! Keep it up!

 

[HorseloverFat]

With that latest cascade pot, you appear to have upped your game! Keep it up!

Thank you SO much!

More interesting (or horrifying, depending where you stand ) things a-comin’... hopefully...

Working on this strange planting apparatus () right now... I mistakenly used grog all the way up to 1/8”.. and I’ve been apprehensive to use it... but she was “the last ball in the bin”.. so it was time..

TEARING my hands up... and a BRUTALLY difficult pursuit of “straight”... but we eventually fell into a rhythm.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Alright.. only those with experience in HAND-forming Coarse Grogged-bodies will TRULY appreciate the effort that went into this form.

I had planned on incorporating MUCH more complexities into the feet through pulling/tool work... buuuuuuut this clay, with that coarse grog was VERY resistant to any “carving techniques”

 

[LanceMac10]

nice shape but the feet need there "nails" clipped....

 

[HorseloverFat]

Also bought one of those fancy-dancy “Weed Burners”... well.. let us just be TRUE for a second and refer to it as what it ACTUALLY is...... a Flamethrower

There was a near 60 dollar apparatus marked down to 28.99... hundreds of great reviews with the only NEGATIVE thing said was in relation to the wand/gun being too heavy... which is either BETTER for my use..... or NOT affected by this much, if at all...

I will keep the other forge/raku “blower”, too.

 

[HorseloverFat]

nice shape but the feet need there "nails" clipped....

Thank you! I shall, most definitely take this into consideration the next time I am making similar feet.

I was GONNA type, on the initial post.. “He’s got Big Feet.... I named him Samuel Sqwamptch... ‘Sam’ for short.”

 

[HorseloverFat]

Thug Life! *falsetto*

 

[HorseloverFat]

 

[HorseloverFat]

The two newest pieces.. Their last coat of non-glaze slip/reduction drying...
The potter who I’ve been “reading” who’s essentially “in the same boat I am” as far as low-fire.. producing your own clay bodies from “wild clay”.. yadda-blah-cetera.... says that she PREFERS glazing greenware and “one-time firing” with earthenwares... so I have a slew of experiments ITCHING to “get hot”.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I’m about halfway through work on this piece.. just taking a break and thought I’d share.

 

[Carol 83]

I’m about halfway through work on this piece.. just taking a break and thought I’d share.
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You're learning fast. Nice.

 

[HorseloverFat]

You're learning fast. Nice.

Thank you so much!!

It’s “feeling” much more natural now... increasingly easier to get the clay bodies to “do what I want.“

 

[HorseloverFat]

Thug Life! *falsetto*

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Charles Darwin would be SO proud!

 

[leatherback]

Charles Darwin would be SO proud!

not sure what you think you are doing, and wht Darwin has to do with it.

Are you after a darwin award?

 

[HorseloverFat]

Haha.. because LAST time.. I spilled the reduction, in the oven... now with: additional bowl, in HOPES I “adapted”.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Maybe Leon Trotsky Trout...

 

[HorseloverFat]

 

[sorce]

reduction

Are you just removing water?


Sorce