wordless and green 11.10.2022

ceramics in process 10.27.2022

I've been creating lots of pots in the past few weeks. vases, bowls, trees planters, orb, ikebana vases platters, vases, orbs These are all at the "greenware" stage, meaning ceramic pieces that are dry clay. They're very fragile at this stage. In the next week, once these are completely dry, I'll fire them to the …

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making bisque molds – 5.19.2022

In my small ceramics studio, I use a variety of homemade bisque molds to make some of my ceramic forms. Bisque (also referred to as biscuit) molds are clay forms I fire to about 1915 degrees, or cone 04. I wrote about how I use the bisque molds here. In this post, I'll explain how …

using bisque molds 4.7.2022

As a ceramic handbuilder, it's nice to have molds on hand. I can use a mold to make several matching pieces, or to quickly create a form to build off of. Molds are typically made from plaster, but I don't want plaster in my home studio because 1) it takes more equipment that I don't …

studio renovation 11.18.2021

I'm starting to make my own ceramic glazes, now that I have my own kiln. And I needed space to store the glaze containers in my small home studio, located in what once was a kitchen on the 2nd floor of my home. I decided to renovate these old kitchen cupboards to be a glaze …

my own kiln! 9.23.2021

This year, I discontinued my membership to the local community ceramics studio and ordered my very own kiln! I bought an L&L e23-M3. It's got 5.5 cubic feet of space, almost 2 feet across, and a little less than 2 feet high on the inside. Not huge, but not teeny. I didn't want a kiln …

neighborhood art walk 4.22.2021

I'll be participating once again in the Marquette-Atwood Art Walk this year. It's Sunday, May 2nd, from 11am-5pm on the near-east side of Madison, Wisconsin. My address is 2802 Center Avenue, and I'll be selling my ceramics out of my garage, on the Miller Avenue side of the house. Visit the Art Walk website to …

word orbs 12.3.2020

One of my favorite songs is Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow - basically a list in song. And posted on my wall I have a list, cut out from a newspaper long ago, of 100 words for precipitation. I like lists. Perhaps I learned list love (or list lust) from my mom, Eleanor, who …