A Moment of Time and Distance

I would like to say it's been a long time, but I think that saying it was a long time doesn't encapsulate the shear amount of time it's been since i last posted here.

I would like to offer you a bit of an explanation, for my... four followers... if you're still there. My last post here was in April last year. I had mentioned that things had taken a turn for the worse, however it was worse than i thought... i just didn't know yet. it wasn't long after that post that i found out that my mother had cancer. it wasn't long after that that i found out that i had gotten accepted in the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Needless to say, the months that followed were hard and whatever free time i had went to caring for my mom and preparing for my move across the country. She had told me that no matter what happened i was to continue with my schooling... and i did. A month after moving to Nova Scotia, six days before the start of my new semester at my new school, my mother passed away. it has been a hard year for me and my family.

I am going to try and restart this blog, i miss being able to share my experiences with others. it may be slow at first, but to better establish myself as an artist and to become the artist my mom saw me as and knew i was going to be i have t try.

I hope that you'll stick around and see what i make now that i'm majoring in ceramics. i have a whole new palette of techniques and information available to me and i plan to share it.

Cheers~

Long time no see

It's been forever and a day since I last posted, I know. Everything besides my ceramics took a turn for the worst and unfortunately my timetable for this project also took a turn for the worst. I have to say that as of today i have completed all of my glazing for this semester, however, everything for the reduction kiln and a few pieces left for oxidation are still waiting to be fired. I do have a couple photos of some tiles and such and exactly 72 tiles of the quadraxial blend, not photographed as of yet, my apologies. So for this post I'll share what i have and hopefully within the next several weeks I will be able to show the complete quadraxial blend, all one hundred and forty four tiles worth.

So first thing I'd like to show you is the two cookie cutter tiles i tried the crawly white glaze on, i put waxwing brown as the base glaze then dribbled the crawly on top.

Red Tile on Left, White tile on Right
Waxwing with Crawly white on top

Well, on the red tile i didn't put it on extremely thick, on the white tile i poured it on. Of course with the thick application the white went all blistery and bubbled up like growths, but it looks cool doesn't it? (my mom excited by these tiles she wanted to use them as spoon rests! unfortunately the crawly white is toxic and not food safe...but I'm saving her some food safe tiles for spoon rests just because). Now there was talk of getting making the glaze even thicker to try and get bigger breaks from the crawling, that tile is glazed but is still sitting waiting to go in the kiln, so that result will be coming...but not right now. be patient now.

I'm hoping that when at it's thickest the glaze will break more than blister, but since i have not had the chance to experiment with it at it's thickest it remains to be seen. When i glazed this final tile the consistency of the white crawly glaze was that of pudding, so hopefully I'll get the results I'm hoping for!

The only other thing I have to show are some teaser pictures for the oxidation quadraxial....

Oxidation Quadraxial waiting on the cart

All the tiles came out pink and purple, but I'll give you a hint....none of the actual glazes came out those colours~ but the colours i got from this test were pretty awesome and a lot of the glazes are ones i would definitely consider using.

Oxidation Quadraxial in the kiln

I would like to wait until i fire the reduction kiln before i post the results of both tests since they are the same glazes and pretty much the same test but in two kilns. It would make sense to have them photographed both separately and side by side to get the full range of what happened to each glaze in the different kiln environments.I hope you'll all wait around for when i post up the quadraxial, you might have to wait a little while but i will have those tiles fired and i will have the results posted here. There is about 80 tiles, 6 cylinders, and fifteen cookie cutter tiles glazed and waiting to be fired.

That's all for now, I'll post as soon as i can with the next results~!

Cheers~