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

[TinyArt]

Corn Meal is great.. always makes me think of catfish!

Mmm — good catfish restaurants, hereabouts — gotta wait a bit yet, tho’

 

[HorseloverFat]

Mmm — good catfish restaurants, hereabouts — gotta wait a bit yet, tho’

Hehe! My little Shanty Village that I live in is CONTROLLED by the fishing market...

I even worked for 3ish years at “Bearcat’s Fish House”

....I’m hungry...

Might have to buy a squid today..

I can’t pull those from MY waters..

 

[mwar15]

Are some of the cracks and missing feet from firing? Or is it from construction/ drying pre-firing?

 

[HorseloverFat]

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Are some of the cracks and missing feet from firing? Or is it from construction/ drying pre-firing?

Most pieces were damaged DURING firing... i was SUPPOSED to clean ONE of the shelves (But forgot) of Alumina FIRST.. but I couldn’t remember which one... so one entire shelf “stuck”.. also the warping.. was because the block holding my pyro-probe internally, fell on top of two of the pieces... and “Gumby”d them.



Neither of those things will happen NEXT time.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Mmm — good catfish restaurants, hereabouts — gotta wait a bit yet, tho’

Did’ja even go in a muddy hole.. and catch ‘em with your hands??

THAT’S FUN!

 

[TinyArt]

Did’ja even go in a muddy hole.. and catch ‘em with your hands??

THAT’S FUN!

Nope — catfish here have a wicked dorsal spine — but I’m good with sitting on the dock & casting, when somebody’s willing to clean

 

[sorce]

I'm glad you fired them pieces, they look better than when I fire em!

That house is dope!

Sorce

 

[HorseloverFat]

Nope — catfish here have a wicked dorsal spine — but I’m good with sitting on the dock & casting, when somebody’s willing to clean

Oh they have those (Spines)here, too!

I think MOST catfish do. We have Channel Catfish and Flathead Catfish round MY woods.

I still think Perch are more “mean” and.... pointier... well.. the spines are smaller.. but more “honed”

I once had a perch spine “alert” and ALMOST make it through the hand skin betwixt my thumb and forefinger.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I'm glad you fired them pieces, they look better than when I fire em!

That house is dope!

Sorce

Thank you, SO much!
It’s weird.. yours looked more yellow going in, and more red coming out...

Mine looked darker/redder going IN... and came out “yellower” .

I also believe I may have went a little OVER for “low fire”

 

[HorseloverFat]

But I have ALL the notes..

So i’ll only be MORE comfortable/planned NEXT time.

I learned, greatly, as well, during this fire.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I figured for every large(r) piece, which will be a “surprise” to this thread until completion, I will use scraps of said pieces construction to make a tiny structure/figure.. which I WILL share PRE-heat.

I present... Altar. (Still in progress.. but almost “there”)

 

[HorseloverFat]

I present.. from the scrap heap..

(Grass) Hut 1...

It’s only about %50 complete (gotta go in with wood tools for fine design and scale “thatching/shading/equalization)... but I thought I’d share.

 

[LittleDingus]

I present.. from the scrap heap..

(Grass) Hut 1...

It’s only about %50 complete (gotta go in with wood tools for fine design and scale “thatching/shading/equalization)... but I thought I’d share.
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No offense intended, but I like your little structures better than your pots! That hut is great!

 

[HorseloverFat]

This is where we ended up.

 

[HorseloverFat]

No offense intended, but I like your little structures better than your pots! That hut is great!

Thank you!!

We’ll see if I can’t impress you with a pot or two, soon!

 

[HorseloverFat]

So, as a few people here know, I LOVE wooden tools! But I’ve noticed “wear and tear” on a few.. so I thought I’d attempt constructing one.. i just picked two or three edges/angles/functions I wanted to try it out..

At a little under an hour, I’m pretty pleased...

Selection..


And after...

 

[HorseloverFat]

One speckled alder.. ‘bout 40 minutes with a little green, plastic paring knife, and a 15 year-old sanding block... I like this

 

[TinyArt]

While I'm thinking of it: free-standing mudmen often have a hole in the bottom. One theory is that it allowed the maker to have them on a stick for easy handling while adding details. My own thought is that the finished figures will stay put in a penjing scene with a toothpick or section of chopstick hidden beneath them.
FWIW

 

[HorseloverFat]

While I'm thinking of it: free-standing mudmen often have a hole in the bottom. One theory is that it allowed the maker to have them on a stick for easy handling while adding details. My own thought is that the finished figures will stay put in a penjing scene with a toothpick or section of chopstick hidden beneath them.
FWIW

Ha! These thoughts were actually circling my mind lately! (Get outta my head!) When I considered bases for huts and “dowels” for figures. I ended on the realization that they may be inhabitants/fixtures in MULTIPLE plantings... better of just creating “space” to work with SPECIFIC settings.

 

[TinyArt]

they may be inhabitants/fixtures in MULTIPLE plantings...

Places to go, people to see?

creating “space” to work with SPECIFIC settings.

Meaning -- terraces, "rock" surfaces? That's something I've thought about, to save on moss & keep companion plants from getting out of hand. (For now, my serissas only look what they are by nature -- shrubs! -- but I envision a corner of tea-house garden...)