Translucent 04 tests

I fired my cone 04 translucent tests yesterday and took them out today. I was surprised that the tile pieces worked much better than I had anticipated. The three-dimensional forms that I made slumped over, so I will need to work with that if I want to make those types of forms. The clay looks very yellow in the pictures (probably because of the camera). The clay isn't white, and I think next time I will only use Grolleg and take out the ball clay because I don't think I need it for what I am doing. More tests and pieces to come!


This is the reverse side of the one above it to show how different they look based on how it was layered.

firing today

Today I will be firing my cone 04 translucent clay tests and hopefully they don't melt into a big oozy mess! I will post pictures of the results Monday or Tuesday. Then I will try the cone 6 firing after that.

Graduate class

For everyone who has been following my blog (with rather inconsistent updates), I now need to update my blog twice a week for my graduate ceramics class. It should be an interesting experience and I will have some new posts coming shortly!