Dr. Rhyolite

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Ceramics

Here are a few of the ceramics things I have completed as of lately. All of them were constructed with red earthenware clay fired in a raku kiln, none were reduced, however. I did one reducing and didn't care for the iridescent sheen on these particular pieces.

This was a planter I carved, it's about a foot tall it was glazed with turquoise raku glaze but was not coated and fired to the full blue-ish green color. This is one of the scenes on the planter.

Another scene depicting the desert

A third scene (and my favorite) The glaze slightly pooled and oozed out of the carving but fuck it- it can do whatever it wants, fucking l-oozer.

I forgot to post a picture of the fourth scene but it was just a stupid cottage on a stupid little hill. So you can just imagine what it looked like.

I also made a trilobite- It's missing it's carapace but that's how my fossil came. I decorated it in brown and black slip and then glazed it with clear and amber splotches. I then took a sponge and got most of the glaze off so it stayed in the lower parts of the piece, I don't think a trilobite would be as neat if it was all glossy and shit.

Here is another view of it and my stained table cloth. I like this table cloth because it has scenes depicted on it that say "general store" and such. But it's all stained up with coffee and wine so that's why we can't have nice things in this house.

Here is a teacup and saucer with spoon based off a trilobite. It's all painted with slip and glazed clear. It's functional but I don't want to drink tea out of something based off an extinct crustacean. That is just weird.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Zombie Photos ROUND 1

My friend Rose agreed to help me out with some photos I wanted to take. I had the idea of zombies sitting down for dinner because, well zombies normally don't do that. Since Rose's family has been known to dress up like zombies whenever they want I thought this would be a perfect fit.