It's been a while since I've had some uninterrupted time in the studio, and I was blessed just that yesterday. Brian has Mondays off now due to his new position at Habitat, so he agreed to hang out with Guthrie to give me some time to work. It felt so good to get my hands on some clay. I'm working on filling a gallery order of mostly handbuilt pieces and thus decided to tackle making some wall pieces.
Here are a few in process. Below are nine tiles, halfway finished. I start with thinly-stretched slabs, cut and stamp them, and then pinch together the seams.
Here's one receiving its border, which is pinched on as well.
The clay is then rolled/folded to create a frame (this is the backside, by the way).
A slab with 2 holes, in which to later thread wire, is attached.
Here are the finished tiles. They are about 7"x 7" wet, and end up around 5 1/2" square once they're fired.
4 comments:
Hey. I saw a pic of your pot in the new CM while I was at Jenni's today. It's for the workshop you're doing for the Potter's Council. Yea for Amy
So glad you got to work! Jen
Great pieces and congrats on getting some clay time.
nice tile work, like your self framing work..
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