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Acorn squash coil pot sketch

 

Ceramics

Thick slip squeezed out of a squeeze bottle or one of those rubber ear syringes?  

 

Onto a plaster bat?  

And then do a lot of those and assemble them into a larger structure?

 

Hopefully something less lame than this.

Meanwhile, check out this woman’s stuff:

http://lucyjanefoakes.blogspot.com/

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The units would be something like this silicone squiggle. Try not to think about intestines.

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Dagmar suggested we take an art class at Laney. The only one that meets M-W 6-8 is Ceramics. Instructor Larry Henderson seems to be an old "thrown stoneware teapot" kind of chappie. I could live with that.

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I’ve gotten all excited about handling clay. I’ll need to know what the studio has to offer. Highfire? Gas kiln? Clay bodies? Is there a slab roller? Can I slip-cast?
I biked down to campus to check it out. Closed today, for Veterans Day? Here’s what I saw from outside the kiln deck:


back of the big kiln


looks like terracotta


Stoneware &  Weber grill. (Hi Dag!) There also seems to be a raku kiln, and a few skutt-type electric kilns for bisquing & lowfire.

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…and here’s what I’d like to make:



Acorn Squash molds. Slipcast if possible, or make coiled blank, soften and hand-press into molds.


Slab vase from top. Texture larger sides with Fred-shredded leather from chair. Smaller sides with those wooden sticks from Mexico?


Vase for Mary. We’ll get some flowers to figure out what shape & size




Bowl for Ramona. Use slumped red graph bowl as form.

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