Inspirations

These two items have been lent to me by my teacher. A traditional Aboriginal coolamon and a small item of pottery by a previous student.

Adjusted for Riso screen

I have adjusted two of my designs to make them more suitable for cutting a Riso screen print.

Thank you

Thank you to all my friends at TAFE for the get well wishes and flowers - I hope to be back to classes very soon :)

Lilly Pilly Designs on Bowls

I have used my Lilly Pilly designs to decorate some bowls. I used blue underglaze to make riso prints. Unfortunately a small round riso screen disintergrated so I have 3 bowls with large and small round prints and 3 bowls with large round plus sections of rectangular prints.

(3) Detail of bowl. (2) Small design. (1) Large round design.

Palm Tree Fruit Designs

Using this photo of palm tree fruit (berries) as I starting point I have made these designs to use on my ceramic works.

New Designs _ Guinea Flower Seed Pods

I have come up with three new designs from my initial drawings. I used shaped frames - oval, wavy rectangle and a hexagonal frame. Here they are:

Design

A starting point for a new design. Drawing and photo of the Guinea Flower vines seed pods.

Slipcast

These images show the results of a module in slipcasting a prototype. We used all sorts of soft water proof containers, filled them with plaster and then created the mold from that. My original containers were paper party lolly bags and the refill tube for fabric softener.
The three grey ones are "Lean and Mean" teapots. Additions of handles and lids transform them into teapots.

Summerish

I hope these survive their firings as the decoration has taken a lot of time. A combination of sprigs and prints.

Raku

These pieces were fired in a Raku firing. The teapot was relief printed with copper oxide and then glazed with a clear crackle glaze. The little dishes were printed using a Riso print and then glazed with the same glaze then design scratched through glaze. The design then turned black during reduction in sawdust.