Review 2011

Hey guys! So I just completed all my work for the semester! My review is over (thank goodness), my paper is written and turned in, and all the children are tucked tight in their beds. I'm pretty satisfied with my work this semester, and think that the exploration I did in media will help me greatly next (my final) semester.

This one is titled "I'm the fat one."

this one fell about 10 min before my review, and smashed into pieces. these are the pieces arranged to try and look like the original. still kinda works actually.

This donkey was a born a majestic horse, but due to unforeseen squatness became a donkey.

now a well deserved break! xoxo Cady

Ceramic Birds

I am obsessed with making ceramic birds. It all started with this guy, for a project based on dreams (This is Buddy, who disturbs my dreaming.)

He was trouble in this form too, let me tell you! First, I painted him with underglaze, then used high fire. yellow salt and "clear" (which was actually nasty gray.) This sucked. I then tried doing a coat of light green lowfire. This came out matte and U-G-L-Y. Then I fired him a fourth (!) time, during which I painted on more lowfire green, with a layer of lowfire clear, and then popped him in the raku kiln. And FINALLY he came out good! Darn it, Buddy!!

Then I made his mini brethren

and then I made my personal totem, a sparrow!

Many more birds are in the kiln at the moment, I'll post them soon. caw caw Cady

Ceramics

Can I just say - I love ceramics. I had an amazing semester in a hand-building class, and while my pieces are far from perfect, I think that they're pretty adorable. You know - in a kinda-lumpy-but-still-functional kind of way. I made a ton, but here are a few of the favs.


This one is a baby tea cup set - the glaze made it look like bones.

This guys is a little cutie house butter dish, which is part of my final project focusing on the little blue house. More to come.

A set of ice cream bowls.

This vase was put in the Raku kiln - it involves pulling the piece out of the kiln at the highest temperature, when the glaze is like honey liquid, then slamming it into a trash barrel full of newspapers. The whole mess catches on fire and the smoke reacts with the glaze to make it metallic!!