I'm always trying to use glaze like acrylic paint, this is silly of course and the colors often end up a disappointment to me...so tonight I made 2 test tiles and tried to play with the underglaze and experiment. If these retain the look I want after firing I will go ahead and use the same treatment on my Sugar & Mr.Cream below..
I'm liking the rough sketchy feel of these tiles...
Here are some fun new pieces that were waiting for me when I got to
for my clay class tonight, all intact with the exception of some loose wheels I forgot to glaze for the truck...
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Perro de clay Terra Cotta with Glaze #9!
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"Cee-ment Truck" Terra Cotta with Undgerglazes
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And I'm happy to report I made a new 2 piece sculpture this evening...a sugar bowl! So perhaps I'll make a companion creamer next week...stay tuned.
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Amazingly, the trucks are all close to the same scale even though I made them independent of one another. The bus below is another story...it's way bigger than the trucks - of course it will shrink a bit when it goes through the bisque firing. It's a strange bus, I had 3 different images in my head and I kind of morphed them altogether in the clay.
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Now I have lots of glazing to do...that's the hard part! It's not likepainting with acrylics. Many coats are needed to get the saturationthat I like and even then the underglazes can do strange things in thekiln. Stay tuned!
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This is my "container" truck...I decided to try for a functional piece. We'll see
how the lid works once it's dry. You can see more photos on my flickr site.
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I clicked a few photos of trucks that I'm working on at Lill Street. Sadly an hour before I took the wet clay photo I lost a cab from another truck, lopped right off onto the floor into many pieces. Very frustrating...you just have to let go when it comes to clay. It's fragile and unpredictable but also really therapeutic and so much fun to play around with. This white truck is actually underglaze on bisqued (that means fired once) terra cotta ..it was bright orange before I slopped on the white.I do this so when I add the color I can get brighter hues. It is going to be a milk truck..to go with the egg truck. The first one is my crazy version of a cement truck..that was my Monday night.
And I got my plane back last week. I included strategically placed holes, the plan is to thread wire through andhang it from the ceiling. I also made clouds but they still need to beglazed.
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So I made this cute little truck out of terra cotta at Lill Street, building it was the fun part. Then comes the not so fun part: Glazing it...always a frustration for me - working with glaze is nothing like paint. To get the color saturated you have to put many coats of white to cover the orange clay and then many coats of the actual color that you want...and you are still not guaranteed full coverage. Last year I coined the phrase..."let go and let glaze" I'm still trying to embrace it.
So why an egg truck you ask? Well as I layered on all the white glaze I was having conversations with the other people working at my table and they asked what my truck was carrying...I had no idea and was not sure what direction I would take outside of having that great purple cab. The next thing I glazed were the tires, and I thought they looked like sunny side up fried eggs...so voila...an egg truck. Check out each side and the bottom...I titled it "eggzactly".
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