NCECA 2016 Experience (First time!)

Since this year's national clay conference was right at my back door this year, it was silly if I didn't go! NCECA was in Kansas City for 2016 at the huge and ever impressive convention center.

Art show and sale Sculpture pieces (Art Show 2016 NWMSU Clay Club)

This is my art show and sale contribution apart from my functional thrown pieces My slip trailed pieces are glazes and displayed on black shelving units. 

"Melting landscapes of Ast"

Full side by the window of shelving

whole cube shot

"Fallen tree"

2015/ 2016 Ceramics

Ceramics pieces that I sold in the end of the semester art sale. (So glad I had a feeling to photograph my pieces before the sale so I have more documentation of what I sold as well as what I can do to make more!)

Cone 6 stoneware with tenmoku glaze re-fired in soda kiln

Cone 6 Stoneware with black slip and clear glaze liner

Cone 6 stoneware with tenmoku glaze re-fired in soda kiln

Cone 6 stoneware with tenmoku glaze re-fired in soda kiln

Creating Slip for my Slip Trailing Sculptures

The process for creating the slip "powder" I use for all of my slip trailing and/ or slipping and scoring is made after crushing and destroying the lessor greenware (un-fired) pieces that never made the cut. 

These are the pieces I create with the slip squeezed threw a hair dye applicator onto a plaster bat.

Breaking apart big pieces of un-fired clay pieces with a large wooden pestle.  

Still breaking the pieces!

Crushing away!

I used to use the Mortar piece that went with the wooden pestle, though I had so much to crush it wouldn't fit so I learned that just rolling the pestle against the table crushed the clay chunks even faster! Yay, learning!

After crushed, the powder gets put through a rusty yet still fine sieve. 

At the fine powder stage, I would normally add it to water but here I am saving it in a large poring plastic tub for later!

The fine powder is later added to water and sieved a second time to make certain that all of the larger chunks of clay are eliminated so the slip can be squeezed out of a tiny hole! I have also added different oxides and tones to color the slip for later work!

Past Ceramics ~ 2012

This class back in 2012 - 2013 is what originally got me into ceramics. We learned from our teacher Laura Kukkee how to properly document and photograph our pictures for our portfolios. These photos were the fruits of my effort back then and I can not thank her enough for the knowledge and the push  in the right direction that would inevitably shape my life forever.

Wolfs Light Blue Glaze

Blue China paint wash over Stoneware plate with Clean liner glaze ontop

Japanese inspired coil pot watering can

Japanese inspired Terra Sig Coil pot

Green and Black slip over Earthen ware with clear liner

Hump mold design platter

Portland Copper red glaze with clear liner set

Portland Copper red with clear glaze Jar set