Blog: Bisque Painting
July 21, 2019
These suckers have run through the kiln a total of 4 times. Once for bisque and 3 more for glaze coats. I didn’t think the glaze covered well enough until the last one. This glaze needs to be layed on super...
July 7, 2019
The Blue Feather project will be a hopefully ongoing project for us. Basically the idea is we’re crafting pendants with a Blue Feather, representing the LGBT populace. I thought they might also be a great way to experiment with new materials and techniques, and also be a fun way to get people who haven’t really...
March 4, 2019
We’re doing a glaze fire, but going to Cone 04 for this one. We’ve noticed that the stuff in the top of the kiln appears to be less fully fired than the stuff in the bottom so we’re testing out a little higher temp for this one. Witness cones from the firing. The little one...
January 7, 2019
Nic had been throwing a lot of different cups and bowls on the new wheel.. Trying to just get his hand into it.. and also to practice up before he was going to be away from it for a few weeks. I have claimed a bowl and two of the mugs to paint designs on....
January 3, 2019
So this one gets its own post so that I could flag it as Not Safe For Work 🙂 This one was a commission for a Christmas gift from a friend to another friend.. so much...
November 22, 2018
For this weekend I’ve painted 12 ceramic pendants in the style of medieval stained glass. Duncan has these cool glazes called French Dimensions, which results in textured glazes lines, kinda reminiscent of the puffy t-shirt paint from the 80’s. I did quite a lot with those paints, so terrible and great 🙂 I had previously...
November 19, 2018
new work in progress.. Big Daddy Mug 😀So far the bisque is painted but not clear glazed. Will be fired this week hopefully. Edit: Done! I am drinking coffee out of this one as I write.. He came out of the mug and I am very happy with the...
November 3, 2018
This past few weeks we have been doing a bit of experimenting with re-glazing ceramic objects we’ve found at dollar stores and thrift stores. This is mosly the hus-monkey’s project and doing… but thrifting is fun so I’ve been helping choose items and will hopefully paint a few. We’re trying things that are both just...
November 2, 2018
Most of the contents of this firing are experimental objects. Ceramic objects we’ve found at thrift and dollar stores. There is one piece in here that was a normal bisque painting (blue and yellow bowl to match the soup spoon I had...
October 11, 2018
So I signed up for Reddit Secret Santa “Ugly Mugs” because obviously I would.. and this year my recipient is somebody from the UK who listed amongst her interests Pokemon and Makeup… so I decided to combine the two concepts. I went with the other interpritation of ugly mug (as in ugly face) borrowing inspiration...