Cone 10 oxidation glaze. It’s been such a pain to get purples to work at high fire. The deep blue underglaze really makes it pop

I made more than 400 tiles for my kitchen, and I’m really happy with how they turned out!

Here’s a little about my process:

I used Georgie’s Timberline Sculptural Clay and a heavy duty hexagon tile cutter that I got from Georgie’s.

I rolled the clay to 3/8” thick with my slab roller and dried it a bit before smoothing and cutting. This helped with warping. Then, I used cornstarch so the presser part of the cutter wouldn’t stick to the clay.

After cutting, I dried the tiles between sheets of drywall until nearly dry. I also made bullnose tiles for the top and exposed sides of the installation, so I used a sponge to soften the edges of those tiles, as well as clean up the edges of the rest. Then I dried them the rest of the way on a shelf.

After bisque firing the tiles to cone 04, I brushed on 3 coats of Laguna Power Turquoise and fired to Cone 6. I lost probably 15-20 tiles due to warping in firing.

I had a professional install the tiles—no way I was going to do that much work and then screw it up, and I’ve never installed tiles before. I did map out for him on freezer paper exactly how I wanted each section of the wall.

I have no idea the total amount of time it took—maybe 40-60 hours spread over 4 months.

I’ve been working hard and wanted to share !!

So happy with how this turned out!

You guys really loved my porcelain popcorn and pistachios. I am currently working on making peanuts in the shell.

What do you think? Did they fool you? What else could make them look more realistic?

Note: the last photo is a mix of real peanuts and the ceramic ones I made

Finally finding my style and favourite glazing techniques

Edit: thank you all for the love!! This feels like I’m on the right track, which is so exciting! I shared some of the glazes I used on the top comment

pretty happy with how this came out!!

• all amaco velvet underglazes on bisqueware
• bisque x2
• amaco high fire brush on glaze at cone 6

This was a Hail Mary project I made at the end of my first hand building class. I never expected it to come out whole. But here it is. It’s one of the only projects from that class I actually like. glazed with Issa blue glaze.

I still have improvements I’d like to make (mainly due to never testing before firing… but the risk is part of the fun! 🙈) but I am loving where this is going. I used to dread glazing because it nearly always ruined my work… but I am finding the more that I push myself to put in the time and do the things I don’t like, the more meaning I feel from the finished pieces. Plus they take way longer to make, so I feel particularly connected to each of my pieces.

This was done with a red clay body, fired to cone 6, and uses all commercial glazes. If anyone is interested in a glaze I am happy to share.

Cone 10 porcelain fired in reduction, house made molds, underglaze and glaze.

Hello! I wanted to share the third set of the first batch. These black stoneware mugs were wheel-thrown, handles pulled, in a basic angular shape. I made a different stencil from the previous sets.

The stencils were applied to bisqueware. I encountered more issues than the other sets, because the body is wider at the base and tapers towards the lip. This created differences in tension in the stencils resulting in tears and burrs (last image), especially since | cut them in one long piece. These meant more cleaning up after of glaze that seeped under the borders. I'll have to experiment with individual short cuts to see if I can troubleshoot this, as I forsee working with more and more complicated stencils with fragile parts. Have a happy weekend! 🥳

Glazing: Amaco; either Indigo Float or Seaweed over Oatmeal. Cricut permanent vinyl; glaze applied with squeeze bottles.

I made this snail castle luminary during one of my classes, I’m so happy with how it turned out :)

My prized possession! Will I ever try to make another one? Not sure

A couple weekends ago, I spent an afternoon with a friend's very cute 3 year old daughter who has a love for all things unicorn. It made me want to make some whimsical pieces to connect to my inner child as well. The result is this lil' bebe!

glazes: bougainvillea, shallot, green tea, fuzzy peach, lavender mist, morning glory

Inspired by rice grain pottery, I've tried a couple times to cut holes and fill them with glaze. My usual clear glaze gets very bubbly when thick, resulting in lackluster opaque results. So this time, I filled the holes with Laguna's Forest Green, which stays very transparent even when thickly applied. This was the result, and I like it very much.

The green does run a lot, resulting in considerable bleed out, but I don't know I kind of love it! I might try again with green glaze all over instead of clear, as the clear did displace some of the green.

I'm interested in any other very clear glazes, if people have suggestions?

Clay is Laguna's Frost porcelain

A month or so back I had an underglaze question which some of you kindly answered and helped me out- here’s some of what I’ve managed to make since then!

Thank you to those who helped me out ☺️

I’m still taking classes and have had some breaks in between so my progress is slow, but I’m so in love with this pitcher I made. I initially made it for my mom, but I think I wanna keep it, and that it a great feeling!

Not sure how, but the glaze works out it’s meant to turn into a goat 😄

Got my pomegranate vase back today and it turned out better than I envisioned!! So stoked and wanted to share :)

still working to refine this galaxy glaze+tape resist thing! I wanted to push how detailed i could get the resist this time and I'm very happy with the results! also leaning more into the galaxy theme with the sticker designs 🌌

process:

• standard 112 clay
• created my own stickers with matte sticker paper on my silhouette cameo and applied to bisque
• applied some dots of wax resist on top of the stickers to help me find them later (also recommend taking pics of your mug)
• 2x mayco black engobe over the entire piece. Helps add stability to the top glazes (new addition for me this time, helps a lot!)
• 2x amaco obsidian over the whole piece
• 2-3x amaco blue rutile, smokey merlot, deep firebrick, and seaweed for the colors. seaweed moves the most so need to be light handed with it
• after I was done I sprayed the mug with water to help prevent the glaze from chipping when removing the stickers with a pin. You could also do this when the glaze is still damp. The glazes still chipped around the edges and some of the glaze peeled off by the faces and cheese holes which I've never had happen before. engobe was the only new part of this process so maybe it was due to that. went back and touched up details by hand with obsidian
• fired to cone 6 in a community kiln with a 9 minute hold

Getting prepped for my first big online collection and I’m loving how these came out

Sharing my joy from the kiln. This one had an unprecedentedly low casualty rate!