The one thing that AI is actually good for!

"Remember children, you must ignore the fae spirits that live inside the computer."

Little one-eyed frog on blue plastic

One-eyed frog that jumped in the clay bucket.

Broken bits of rock with trilobite parts

Bits of trilobite fossils.

Long, round fossils surrounded by broken rock and dirt

Crinoid fossils in the dirt.

jumping spider on white rock

Teeny fluffy spider on a piece of fossilised coral.

Bits of broken glass and pottery

Broken glass and pottery I found in Bonang that had been washed out after heavy rain. Some of the bottles had been melted.

flooded road surrounded by forest

Went looking for an old mine site, this was the road in. Will try again when it hasn't been raining.

Old "Dellicknora landcare group" sign in field full of blackberries and tussock grass

I think the weeds won

flake of obsidian in small bowl

Obsidian after the bisque fire. It didn't melt, but it did lose its gloss.

white blossoms

Bee on yellow flower

red mini rose

tiny purple flowers

More autumn flowers

Buff and white coloured, unfired bonsai pots

Prototype wheel-thrown bonsai pots, going in the kiln tomorrow.

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A red rock on a pink rock slab

Two forms of rhodonite I got from the rock swap. I'll probably have to use stains to get that shade of pink in a glaze.

I started with cheap tools from an art supply store, along with a wooden board to work on. They were good enough to make little figures with.

I don't have a wheel, I just rent one at the studio where I do classes.

Pieces of obsidian

Obsidian I got at today's rock swap. What I do with it will depend on how well it melts in the kiln.

Glaze recipes, especially if it comes with troubleshooting tips and suggestions for alternative ingredients

Small cream coloured vase

Wood ash glaze on reclaimed porcelain. The glaze was a little lumpy because I didn't mix it properly after it settled, but the colour looks great.

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*frit 3134

Little pot with red-brown outer glaze and blueish inner glaze

Outer glaze is red desert clay + 20% frit 3135. Inner is a SiC celadon made with some of the same clay.

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Tiny pot with yellowish glaze

Failed SiC granite celadon. I need to try again with more silicon carbide and a slightly thicker application.

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I found this site a while ago. It is a useful guide to old bottle glass, and what elements give rise to different colours.

I also just love old websites like this.

secure-sha.org/bottle/color...

Green and pink tiny pot

Little pot with floating pink glaze. The glaze contains crushed green bottle glass and tin, which react to give the colour. Green glass was melted over the top.

I've made a pot like this before. This time the pot was on prop with a bowl underneath so the glass didn't stick to the bottom.

Porcelain egg with celadon glaze

Porcelain egg with desert clay SiC celadon glaze, with a little copper solution sprayed on.

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Pink mini mug

Cream mini mug

Mini mugs. The pink one is floating glaze with green bottle glass mixed with tin. The cream mug has 6% wolframite glaze, probably needs twice as much to get a richer colour.

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Canberra rock swap, 21-22 March 26

Moar rocks!

It is mostly lead chromate. The chromium can produce lots of different colours in different glazes, the lead is an extremely good flux.

Small bottle of orange crystals

Bottle of crocoite from Tasmania. Very pretty but far too toxic to use as a glaze material.

Cosmos flower

Jerusalem artichoke flowers

Rose

Strawberry flower

Autumn in the garden

Jar containing blue-green liquid

New batch of forbidden gatorade.

Little round pots with a blue-ish tint

weird little oil bottle

Odd pot with lid

Some weird little test pieces from a soda-kiln firing. The round pots contain glaze, but unfortunately the kiln didn't get hot enough for it to properly melt.

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