Ceramics: Recent Work Sep – Oct

Recent work out of the kiln. All stoneware, and hand carved. The vintage orange and mint cylinder pot has been low fired with a clear glaze, and so the glaze has crazed, which I highlighted in Indian ink. The group of stoneware pieces in blue and green have all been high fired, which means they are heavier, and the colours are much deeper. The orange and mint cylinder is available in my Art and Ceramic Boutique. So, just a quick post as I am SUPER busy as it’s half term, and working hard in the studio. See you soon xx

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Ceramics Course – Weeks 3 & 4

Sadly, I accidentally deleted all the photos I took in week 3  (including everything I had taken in the last two years!), so have nothing to show you. However, basically, in that week we learned about using ‘slip‘ to decorate the slab pots we had made. Slip is a essentially a mixture of water and clay, and generally coloured.  You can dip your pot in slip, paint slip on your pot, do trailing or painting with it. There are many and varied ways slip can be applied to a pot. So, my photos would just have been of my slab pot freshly painted with dip. Alas, gone…so moving on.

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Ceramics Course – Week 2

So, this week we finished off our first pots ready to be fired. In my case a bit of tidying up of the edges and some decoration of the rim and the fold. There wasn’t really a lot left I could do to it, without it ending up looking a bit fussy.

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Creative + Passionate + Inspired

Lorrie Whittington is an illustrator, designer-maker, free spirit, chocolate eating geek, living in the heart of the Sussex countryside on the south coast of Britain. She draws, paints, reads a lot, makes things with clay, likes scf-fi and hangs out with her daughter.