The porcelain road is quite bumpy...
I’m finally getting around to documenting some of the work I did at Red Lodge Clay Center with a material I had very little experience with the time, basalt. I was lucky to happen upon Pioneer Valley Basalt available in two versions, Microfine Basalt and BrixBlend Basalt . The microfine version was great for glazes, and the material came with a detailed chemical analysis . We’re not always so…
Lunar Fragments (Tsuki no kakera), Ogawa Machiko, 2014 Every time I visit the Met, I rediscover and take photos of this piece, Lunar Fragments by Ogawa Machiko . Like Jun Nishida , Ogawa Machiko explores the geology of ceramics, the boundaries between different phases, and the spectrum from glass to stone. Galerie Frank Elbaz has some beautiful images of her recent work. View fullsize View…
This glaze is the result of a line blend between two simulated materials…
Just a place to put my favorite bikes
If Glazy had patron saints, one would be Doyle Lane. "I could wake up in my sleep at night and write a glaze formula out. Now, these formulas are not in books. None of this is in books, because this is something that I've truly made my own by doing my experimentation."
Happy Year of the Rabbit! Here are some late-Ming blue & white porcelains featuring rabbits/hares, most featuring the "Moon-hare" motif.
Untitled sculpture, 2002. The Brooklyn Museum One of the highlights of my trip to the Brooklyn Museum yesterday was seeing a work by one of my favorite ceramicists, Jun Nishida (西田潤), in person. Nishida was around the same age as me, but he tragically died at only 28 years old while pursuing his passion: Working with Javanese artisans in Indonesia to help them preserve their pottery traditions.…
Perhaps like many of you, my first forays into glaze chemistry were devoted to producing blue celadons. My copies of Robert Tichane's "Celadon Blues" and Nigel Wood's "Chinese Glazes" became dog-eared and grimy with smudges of iron oxide. One crucial requirement for producing those blue celadons had nothing to do with the glaze materials but rather the firing and, crucially, the lack of oxygen in…
These paintings of the museum were created by Boris Dayma's awesome DALL·E mini, which is accessible to anyone with a web browser: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini (link in bio) Dalle mini is a great way to explore ideas, and it demonstrates how machine learning can be used not as a replacement for artists, but as another tool to aid our artistic process. To generate these…
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Screenshot of Glazy kiln schedules A small feature, but I'm pretty excited about these firing schedule charts. Firing charts include three common markers for firing: Quartz Inversion, Orton Cone 04, and Orton Cone 10. Similar to the use of the Stull Diagram in recipe charts, these markers serve as handy guides for comparing schedules. Just go to glazy.org and click "Kiln Schedules" Note: 1) Cone…
Alternate title: "Feet and pots!" I'm infatuated with @barnesfoundation and Barnes' "ensembles". The experience is overwhelming and incredibly intimate, at times mysterious and perplexing, and often imbued with a joy not unlike discovering a hidden gem in a vintage knickknack shop. As a ceramicist my favorite juxtaposition is these folk pots, mostly by unknown artists, fairly unremarkable in the…
I was lucky to have landed in Philadelphia just as "Kōgei: Art Craft Japan" opened at @philamuseum . Here are some of the beautiful surfaces from those works. I included a wonderful detail of Jun Kaneko's "Untitled Dango" that I believe is still on display at the museum. I love looking at work and asking myself, "How did they do that?" How do you think they did it? Selected works by: Shōmura Ken…
Lasse Östman generously shared his deep knowledge of glazes on his website and social media. The Glazy community has been working to re-create Lasse's glazes, and two recent results from @trees_wijnands and @xavierescala are just too wonderful not to post. It's amazing to see people around the world sharing their knowledge like this!
Just realized I hadn't finished editing tests from a couple years ago. Here's a line blend of gloop: Left side has +5% Mason 6097 stain, while the right has +5% 1000 mesh silicon carbide (SiC). At around 4% it becomes a dimpled, smooth, stone-like surface that's great to the touch.
I love pottery that tells you exactly what to put in it. Check out @philamuseum 's wonderful Pie Day post for more inspiration. "Cherry Pie" Pie Plate, Vickers' Pottery, 1850 Philadelphia Museum of Art
I feel very honored to have my work exhibited in Curious Vessels: The Rosenfield Collection , on view from March 12 - October 23, 2022 at the Everson Museum of Art. View the exhibition website here. About the exhibition: Louise Rosenfield is among the most avid pottery collectors in the United States. Over the past thirty years, she has amassed a collection of more than 4,000 pieces of functional…
Dataset of 1,600 photos of qinghua blue & white porcelain from the Ming Dynasty to Republic Period. Generated music soundtrack is an excerpt from "Transmission" by the amazing Alex Bainter ( https://alexbainter.com/ ) and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. More generators can be found at https://generative.fm More information at https://thisvesseldoesnotexist.com
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Late-Ming Dynasty Two centuries before the development of pâte-sur-pâte ("paste on paste") at Sèvres, late-Ming Dynasty Chinese potters were experimenting with a bold decoration technique using brushed slip. This type of Zhangzhou (or "Swatow") ware employed white slip brushed in lively patterns on cobalt blue, iron brown, or even white backgrounds. The slip was vitreous and partially melted into…