Spring 2012 work plan

Here is porcelain cup I donated to the NCEDA show this year.  Never heard if it sold?

Ceramics Spring 2012

Projects

1. Casas Grandes jars: Build 4 to 8 (Dakota red and Coleman raku clay body) jars with white ball slip covering ready for painted (?) polychrome coverings.  Attempt a joint project with a painter.  Refine colors, surface directions, slips, stains, and finishes to replicate and expand on traditional Puebla forms.  Attempt to end the quarter with 3 or 4  completed pieces, a smoke fired (with aluminum foil sagger) or two, and perhaps one cup
1. Develop a suitable red and black slip
2. Develop a suitable ball clay surface (cone 08)
3. Develop a suitable matt covering.
4. Develop some contrasting color slips
2. Build some Takamari bowls and cups and supplement these forms with coleman Raku clay body.  Attempt to complete 10 cups, two presentation bowls, and 4 small/square bowls.
1. Cups
2. Square bowls
3. Presentation bowls
4. T-Pot
3. Attempt one or two sculptures based on human characterizations or abstract, landscape formats
4. Attempt 4-6 raku pieces using coleman raku grog clay

Stone ware glaze combinations;

Casas Grandes stone ware slips and stains:

This is the earthenware cup I donated to the NCECA Show.  Hope the person who bought it realizes it "sings" when you make tea in it??

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Glazes:

Cone 06:

Glaze tests for white, black and red slips

         - Try white and black slips over burnished red jar

 Cone 10:

1. Prepare and plan glazes for bisque JG pieces (12)
1. –one round bowl
2. – two sub-par cups
3. – four square bowls
4. – four cups
5. – t, pot and cup: Raku

                                              i.     raku

                                            ii.     color glaze tests

                                          iii.     slip/oxide tests

                                          iv.     GB and NS slips 

And this is very similar to the Raku Cup I donated to NCECA.  I like these cups, you can heat them on a flame burner, boil water in them, or warm up a coup of coffee right on an open flame. 

Hope my spring 12 plan is clear enough.  It's really simple, just make a few small jars, smoke fire one or two, and do some Tokamari forms for Raku and high fire!!!/mn