Day 75

Textured bowl

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Majolica

Unfired

UPDATE: fired (black oxide)

Day 51

Hanging plant pot

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Majolica clay

Unfired

Day 50

Majolica birdhouse

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So this is another ceramic birhouse which I made. 

It is bigger from the last one and 

this time I was thinking about holes for the ventilation and drainage :)

I punched two holes on the both sides

and three holes on the bottom. 

Hole in the middle of the bottom is for the wooden perch.

It has also a hole on the top for hanging.

Unfired

Day 49

Cactus pot

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Majolica

Unfired

Day 48

Majolica hanging luminary

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Day 31

Burnishing

This is the first time I actually tried to do some burnishing.

It was fun at the beginning but it takes a lot of time, practice and patience.

Burnishing is basically rubbing the surface of the clay piece until it becomes glossy.

The burnishing tools you use need to be smooth, hard and easy to hold.

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Most potters use the back of the spoon or polished stones for this technique.

Burnishing simply aligns the tiny clay particles so they will reflect the light.

This technique is highly influenced by the state of drying.

The best stage to burnish is usually at the later stage of letaherhard.

Many potters burnish the piece few times to achieve the ultimate finish.

More about burnishing .

Simon Leach video about burnishing.

UPDATE: Fired

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Day 8

Crack pot

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I started with shaping the majolica clay. It took me a while till I got 

all the cracks and structure that I intended to achieve.

 I overlaid the inside of the pot with brown clay. 

Wonder what it will look like after the firing.

UPDATE: fired pot

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Day 1

Majolica luminary

This is the first pinch pot I made for a project. 
I am obsessed with candles so this will be a little candle holder. It's still unfired.
I was working with majolica and experimenting a little with texture. 

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I partially put some yellow engobe on

 textured surface and waited till it was leather hard so I can make holes for the light. 

I will leave it unglazed.
 At some point I will put the photos of finished, fired piece. 
The images are not very good, sorry about that.
 It will get better with time :) 

UPDATE : Fresh from the kiln

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