Lately..

So this week I saw my glazed tiles, considering this is the first time I had mono printed onto clay and glazed anything, I was pretty happy with the turnout, there were a few things I would have done differently but I'm glad I had quite a few samples to try out.

Here we used commercial (ready made) molds and porcelain slip, after the box had got leather hard I painted the outside with green slip. Next I mono printed a clown blowing into a trumpet and was quite happy with the turnout. After bisquing the box I glazed it with a gloss and put it in the kiln to be fired, I've actually re-fired my bottom of the box with platinum luster on the bottom, lets hope it works.

Yep, Thought I'd make my way to the scariest clown.

And here I also scratched away some words from my clay tiles, I filled some of the words with commercial stains mixed with water, I like the effect of them bleeding into the clay.

In Jewellery I also made a ring, I pre-made the embossed lace on the copper, but I wanted to make something out of the scraps, the lines reminded me of a lions maine or some kind of animals furr, so it was nicely fitting.

 I've also been experimenting with alot of layers in textiles so I wanted to express the same technique in metal, I tried wrapping very thin wire around a thicker piece to create a scribbily caterpillar shape, I really liked the effect and enjoyed making them but I thought they were very chunky so I decided to thin them down with first a mallet then a metal thinner. I find then quite interesting when I look close, may take these samples further.

 

The circus.

So for my second and last project this year I've decided to base my project around The Circus. I wanted to incoperate broken toys and the performing animals markings with keeping the word surealism in mind. Today my tutor was ill so I had a whole day to sit in my bay and buckle down drawing. In our liabry at CCAD there was a huge(really heavy!) book with beautiful photography of old performers in all their glory. I've forgotten the name of the book but luckily you can't take it out on loan, so I will have to go back and look again.