You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor
Just when I thought things were going well, sales were picking up for the holidays, had many custom orders, I was actually ahead of schedule…..
Having a bad day. It happens to use all. Sometimes things just go wrong, it just sees to happen [...]
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams
No, not real chocolate, but brown colored Labrador retrievers.I thought I would show how I work on some ornaments. I usually spend ine day a week mixing up clay and making clay colors. Some colors are more difficult to make [...]
I really like how he came out, here are a couple of pictures
Please see sculpting in clay, manatee in progress for previous photos
Another way to sculpt a large figurine without slicing it in half and hollowing it out is to use an armature. But, because I am not making castings with molds, my armature has to burn out in the kiln firing, otherwise the sculpture will crack through the armature. So, This time, I actually made a [...]
Today I am going to show how I sculpt a larger work than in my previous posts. I have only shown up to now how to sculpt smaller works that don’t need hollowing out due to their small size, when working with a larger piece of clay, the work need to be sculptured differently.
I have [...]
Today, I am sculpting Angels, mostly because I realized I have none left and I have some photos to shoot of them, and I don’t have any… hmmm what to do? Oh yeah, make some…
First, I get out a lump of porcelain clay, work it a bit to remove air bubbles and then roll [...]
So, you want to sculpt?
I can’t always tell you what to do right, but I am very good at learning what not to do.I have had explosions, meltings, kiln malfunctions, and clay failure, and that is just in the past six months. Although I have been sculpting since 1992 in porcelain, the past few months [...]
Well, finally at glazing day. The pieces dried out in the kin for aprrox 2 weeks. They were then bisque fired to a cone 05 (which is 1888 degrees)
I placed the pieces out on my glazing table, inspected them for cracks or damages, ( one dragon had to go in for repair )
sitting for [...]
After the glazing, the kiln was fired to 2246 degrees, several hours, days later, I am able to open the kiln and what do I see, COLOR, the colors don’t mature in the porcelain until they hit these high tempuratures, but now we have lovely colors.
After removing the artwork I set them down back on [...]
