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Richard wrote:
Have you tried using textured vinyl wallpaper? Just a light coating of Pam or WD40 (don't like the smell) keeps the paper from sticking. Very simple and always successful. Betsy "Lindsay MacArthur" wrote in message ... I mainly make functional stoneware pieces fired to ^6 in an electric kiln. I want to experiment with some fun textering and embedding and was looking for ideas. For example, I know a potter who occasionally fires some pieces wrapped in gauze and has even done a couple of pieces where she wrapped slip dipped gauze around a balloon, popped the balloon when slip was dry and fired the piece like that. So, if you have any fun ideas please share :-) LMac Texture, texture, texture! I love using different textures! I attended a workshop many years ago given by a young woman who did huge wall murals in clay. She keeps slabs of clay (moist and on boards to keep flat) in the trunk of her car. When she sees a texture she likes, she jumps out of her car, slaps a slab on the spot, and takes a new texture tool home to be bisqued. I wish I could remember her name. I was most impressed by her work and her methods. I haven't had guts enough to completely follow here example yet, but I do pick up anything I think will produce interesting texture. My texture tool box now holds pieces of driftwood, what's left of an ancient rosemary bush my dogs ate (wonderfully gnarled), palm fronds from my neighbors tree (one almost got me in the head on a windy day), interestingly woven wire and rope to roll across the surface, and slabs that I have taken from my yard (large rocks, gravel, huge tree roots, etc). There's no end to the possibilities. Just keep your eyes open and dream. Jan C. |
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In one of my more frustrated moods one evening,
I started whacking a slab with a piece of Christmas tree branch (short needle pine). Turned out to be one of my nicest pieces yet. Everyone wants me to duplicate it, and of course I can't. How do you duplicate random slaps with a branch??!! Another of my nicer textural pieces involved my throwing a tall skinny cylinder (think 18" candleholder). Couldn't for the life of me come up with an idea on what to do next, so as it rotated slowly on the wheel, I sat with a chopstick in my hand, unknowingly tapping on it with the sharpened "handle" end (corner of the edge) while daydreaming...er, looking for an idea g. It turned into something looking like an elephant's trunk! Texture will amaze you, even when you aren't trying :) And believe me, you can use ANYTHING, from a handful of ball bearings or marbles to elastic bands fired one at a time (at a picture of your boss you've carved into a slab...but we won't go there :) The important thing is to have fun with it, and not be afraid to try something "unconventional". Best, Wayne Seidl |
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Jan---I forget, do you live in Calif. in the Bay Area? If so, could the person
giving the class be Elaine Pinkernel? I took a workshop with her, and she does like lots of texture. |
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The Big Ceramic Store is having a sale on their books, among other things. You
may want to check it out and see if they have anything that sounds like it could help. http://www.bigceramicstore.com/Books...CeramicSurface |
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Yes, I am in CA - but have moved from Bay Area.
I honestly don't remember her name. The woman I am referring to has pieces hung in lobbys of some large buildings in the area. If I remember correctly her husband is an architect. I do have her name in my notes somewhere, but, I am still moving. I have been renting temporarily and recently bought a place. It is being refurbished. I have asthma so won't move in until the dusty work is done. The notes are all packed away. However, the studio will be the first thing unpacked - hopefully in a week or two. Incidentally, I wonder if anyone out there has a suggestion on homeowners insurance. The place I bought is a trailer on a permanent foundation on a city lot (50' x 100') with a wonderful workroom attached. This is standard construction for this area (Lake County, California). It is in an unincorporated area. The community is so small, they don't even have home mail delivery. You have to rent a PO box. I am unable to find anyone who will insure it. One company said they would, but not with a kiln on the premises. That's just not an option. Jan C. |
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Hello Jan:
Have you tried a company called Foremost? I'm pretty sure they operate in California. Their number is 1-800-527-3905. They operate mostly through agents, so you would have to call that number and ask for an agent closest to you. They are the largest insurer of manufactured homes in the nation and probably the most flexible. Now, I'd be careful how you approach this issue of kilns and pottery on your premises. If you truely are a production potter and have employees and customers coming on premises then you need to reveal that information to the agent and perhaps have him or her add the business interests endorsement to your policy. If you are like me, a hobby potter, and sell or give your product to others off premises, then you need not even mention the activity. Some underwriters of insurance companies get all freaked out about a kiln. If properly installed, it is no more dangerous than your toaster or oven in your kitchen. Some wood stoves are allowed to get hotter than most electric kilns. Most underwriters just don't have any experience with kilns and pottery studios, so, that which is unfamiliar or has no statistical base, they avoid. Good luck. Diego "Jan Clauson" wrote in message link.net... Yes, I am in CA - but have moved from Bay Area. I honestly don't remember her name. The woman I am referring to has pieces hung in lobbys of some large buildings in the area. If I remember correctly her husband is an architect. I do have her name in my notes somewhere, but, I am still moving. I have been renting temporarily and recently bought a place. It is being refurbished. I have asthma so won't move in until the dusty work is done. The notes are all packed away. However, the studio will be the first thing unpacked - hopefully in a week or two. Incidentally, I wonder if anyone out there has a suggestion on homeowners insurance. The place I bought is a trailer on a permanent foundation on a city lot (50' x 100') with a wonderful workroom attached. This is standard construction for this area (Lake County, California). It is in an unincorporated area. The community is so small, they don't even have home mail delivery. You have to rent a PO box. I am unable to find anyone who will insure it. One company said they would, but not with a kiln on the premises. That's just not an option. Jan C. |
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We got some special ins for the uninsurable for our buildings(
delapidated 200 year old house and barn studio). When my husband comes home from doing music therapy with women prisoners (all victems of DV) I'll ask him the name of the company NJ v |
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Good suggestion about not mentioning the "hobby"pottery.
Texture, a many millennium old attraction for people experimenting with clay. And wonderfully this posting could go on that long, everyone has such great ideas!! I use textures in the pit fired pieces I do and they run the gamut from grabbing a pretty leaf to impressing tools I've made for the purpose. But I wanted to mention the practice of someone who uses liquid rubber to coat textures that she finds interesting and then uses the dried flexible mold she gets from this process to impress a huge variety of textures,especially from nature ( such as large collection of tree barks) on her pots. I've always been tickled when I go into a museum and see on an ancient pot, lets say from Egypt, with the texture of the potters fingerprints on it. I always leave a personal texture like this on my pots whether the painted floral scraffito pieces or the pit fired ones. I'll either leave it directly in the clay or in the slip or glaze or painting process. The idea of some future existence of a sort of record of my life here on earth tickles me too. Nancy Jane v |
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try looking on the Oriental Tading Co site they have thousands of things
maybe they'll have rubber stamps. I've seen them around once in a while at younger friends homes. If I see some I'll let you know and maybe can mail them Nancy Jane v |
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Thank you, Diego. I will call them today. Pottery is now a hobby for me, however, I did help set up and run a pottery that was open to the public for a few years. The reason I have been declaring the kiln is that there have been several reports of claims being denied because there was a kiln on the premises. I have no way of confirming these stories, but I thought it prudent to declare the kiln. Don't want to have a fire and find out my insurance is invalid. However, I am rethinking this position. I do have a second option to put the kiln in a shed on the lot next door, which I also own. However, there is no power to that lot and the shed requires a lot of work. This would require a little more money than I had intended to spend at this time. I'll give Foremost a try, and If that bombs, on to the shed! Thanks again, Jan C. |
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