Glaze

This week I have been playing with glazes, which can be quite daunting to someone who is quite clueless!

Once you get into measuring and see the turn out of each stains and oxides. I tried experimenting with porcelain tiles, it's quite hard to get the outcome you want with high fired clay but I would like to use porcelain slip in my future final pieces.

I'ts been fun experimenting with glazes but I've just ordered some decals also of some line drawings I have done and paintings so they will be interesting to see out the kiln.

I have continued making tiles and playing.

Here are just a few of my samples I've made.

First post of October!

This week has been important for decision making, narrowing down what direction I want my first project to go in. I've decided to keep my theme perspective, I'm playing with focus and out of focus objects/scenery. 

I want to play with glazes in Ceramics, today I made some tiles using porcelain slip, ready for next week. I'd like to use my findings, playing with pigment/stains and maybe oxides to find interesting colours, and work out what would fall into my theme. I'd like to experiment with coloured slip also and decals, I to create pieces that look almost 3D when focusing on a detailed part of an object.

I'm really wanting to take more risks this year and use my time I have at uni now to play around as the brief says! I want to push myself out of my comfort zone, using slip and becoming familiar with it and using molds,  even make my own eventually.

Hopefully I can post some pictures of my findings or other samples next week, I hope you're all keeping well and feel free to scroll through my older posts! (:

Kick up the backside..

..we all really need one! 

Today in Professional studies we were taken through our new brief which looks really exciting and scary at the same time!

We're joining a site called Young Enterprise

http://www.young-enterprise.org.uk/

We have to raise £100 in our groups, which we have to convince our tutor the group is beneficial.

Next we will work in our groups each week until February and then we're selling our products in the Metrocentre in Newcastle.

Well I can't wait to dive into this year head first.

I've been slowly building my kit while I have money to invest. I want to use the studios for tasks I can't do at home, this will help me manage my time better since there never seems to be enough of it!

There will be an increase in activity on my blog this year, feeling encouraged!

Hope everyone is keeping well <3