technical tuesday: Electric Kiln – A guide to Clays, Glazes and Electric Kilns

by | Jun 23, 2015 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Richard Zakin and Frederick Bartolovic have come out with another must-have resource for the studio. Electric Kiln: A guide to Clays, Glazes, and Electric Kilns (fourth edition) is a throughout and visually stunning book for emerging through to advanced artists working in electric firing. Learn how to push boundaries and over come challenges in the studio with this new publication.  It’s also filled with tons of eye candy from many of today’s best contemporary makers.

Grab yourself a copy online, or better yet support your local supplier or bookstore.

technical tuesday: carved drawings

by | Feb 11, 2015 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

More and more frequently lately i’ve been getting emails and instagram messages asking about how I achieve the thin drawing lines on my functional dishes. Hopefully without risking any and all future workshop invites I’m going to share the secret today. I draw the images in pencil on bone dry clay, cover that in wax and then use cheap dollar store sewing needles to carve the drawing through the wax in into the clay surface. I then use a black underglaze to fill in the lines.

When I posted this on instagram the lovely Grace DePledge mentioned she used sewing needles as well (albeit the other end) and suggested finding a mechanical pencil that would hold the needles to save my fingers. Brilliant! Thanks Grace!