technical tuesday: Hand Building Handles with Bill van Gilder

by | Apr 30, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

There are many ways to make handles, here I’ll show you a few hand built
methods. To purchase the corrugated boards used in my video or any
other Bill van Gilder tools and dvds, please visit my webstore http://vangilderpottery.com/vgp_store…. Please comment here if there are other demos you would like to see. I
will be able to read the comments and use them to come up with future
videos. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to be notified of new
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technical tuesday: Ceramic Art Cart

by | Apr 23, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Suppliers of PC
SUBSTRATES™, and Keraflex

Keraflex Porcelain is made from ceramic raw materials and an organic binding matrix which burns out when fired. Once fired, Keraflex is pure porcelain – 0.5mm or 1.0mm thick. There is no other clay body that allows such a wide range of possibilities!

Jennifer Lloyd

www.ceramicartcart.com

technical tuesday: fiskars craft knifes

by | Mar 26, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

I don’t normally endorse specific products on the blog, but the other day I acquired a new tool that will dramatic improve my practice (and my patience, and the state of my sore hands). I can’t remember who I saw with this tool, maybe it was at Arrowmont…I don’t remember, wish I could give credit.

But anyway I was out last week and ran across this Fiskars crafting knife and thought I’d give it a try. Not the cheapest utility knife, but the small blade which can rotate 360 degrees (or not as I decided to rig it with a small piece of paper jammed inside to keep it still) and the ergonomic handle were perfect for the drawings I do on my kids line of functional ware. You can also buy replacement blades and there is a second knife you can buy which is more your typical sized knife blade. My days of sore fingers and working with pins to get the line quality I desired are over. This was worth every penny.

Below are just a few images of my process:

Carving line drawing through wax on dry greenware.
Underglaze is washed into the carved lines.
After the bisque I wet sand the pieces and then add additional colors with underglazes.
A clear glaze fired to Cone 6 and we’re done!
Do you have a technical tuesday idea? Something that has changed your practice? A technique you’d like to share? 
Drop me a line at [email protected] with “technical tuesday” as the subject.