What makes clay alchemy

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Queensland researcher finds gut problems not a cause of autism Posted 26m ago 26 minutes ago Thu 11 Nov at pm. More Just In. I had a wonderful Art Theory lecture class with George Woodman: George is an art theorist, wonderful painter, and a very sharp dresser. During class I took notes on his clothing, and then went down to the studio to glaze my pots accordingly: tan pants with a royal blue tee-shirt over a green button up and gray shoes, turned into tan flashing slip, gray on the foot of the pot, royal blue on the inside of the pot or spout or handle and patterned in different shades of green.

We put all kinds of colors and textures together when we get dressed every morning, and when it comes to glazing, I think this is a good place to start.

I put glazes into a few different categories to help me better understand them and their content. The glaze itself can become the content in the work. From it, you gain a sense that the material has had an experience of firing or time passage. I think about glazing while I am making pottery. I set up situations or predicaments in the pots that will not be complete with some surface decoration or ornamentation.

I do about half of my surface decoration with slip at the still leather hard stage of clay drying. Basically, when I am not sure where to start in decorating, I go back to this list, dots, lines, floral representation and image — and them I start to combine them.

By then, I am off and running and not so self-conscious about mark making. Ornamentation gives something power through meaning. A pattern around a doorway makes that entry beautiful and tells you it is special. Sometimes when I am a little stuck, trying to figure out form and surface, I ponder these things. I work with mid-range porcelain, bisque fire to cone 08 and glaze fire in a soda kiln to cone 6.

Pretty much everything that I make starts on the wheel, and then is altered to some degree. I use a shimpo RK-2 that I bought in high school with my baby sitting money and had in my room between my bunk bed and dresser. The glazes listed here are base recipes.