Basho Boxes Parting Haiku More examples of poetry boxes are on the drop-down pages, Sufi and Haiku.
Working with slabbed clay is very versatile. Here are 27 of the most exciting and fun slab pottery ideas to get your creative cogs turning.
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Handmade stoneware ceramic box accented with a collection of ethnic beads. Reitz green glaze. Box is slab constructed. It measures about 3.25 inches by 3.25 inches by 4.5 inches tall. Highlighted with the following beads: Vintage Afghan silver bicone bead. Exact silver content unknown. Dragon blood jasper bead, a protector of life and to increase strength and endurance. Aventurine beads. Used since prehistoric times it is a semi-precious stone. The Celts associated it with knowledge and spirituality. Tibetan rudrahksha bead. Made from the seed of a tree of the same name. Often used in prayer malas. Vintage Nigerian brass bicone bead. Vintage green glass beads. I call these "spirit boxes." The spirit of something is defined as its "essence" or its intrinsic nature. The essence of these boxes is the unique selection of beads ( and sometimes an amulet or a talisman ) on each one. They come from many cultures. Some are newer, some antique. Some handmade, some semi-precious. All were prized, often by many owners. There is a card inside each spirit box that tells you the story of its embellishments...so you, or the person you gift the box to, knows the story, and the essence, of that box. The price on spirit boxes varies based on the value of its embellishments. The vintage beads may show some wear ( chips, scratches, etc. ) as would be expected based on their age. These are not considered defects but enhancements: they have been loved by many owners and travelled far. Leather cord attaches them to the box.
New ideas have always come easy to me... One day when I was making some of my hanging planters, I looked at them and saw mountains... That is how my mountain boxes were born!
....the journey begins
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Today was the last day of my ceramics class, and the day I finally got to see how six of the seven pieces I made turned out. One piece had already been fired, on the day we did a raku firing. I selected my coil pot to fire that day, and used white crackle glaze. It didn't crack as much as I would have liked, but it did crack some. For my pinch pot, I used a glaze called Vegas red. I really like the way the color turned out! The third method of handbuilding we learned was slab building. I made two pieces using this method. My first attempt cracked a little in the bisque firing, and cracked even more in the glaze firing. Oh well. My second slab pot fared better. I added a lid to this one. One of the class requirements was to include a lid or a handle on one piece (I did one of each). After the bisque firing, the lid fit best in one specific orientation. To help distinguish the correct placement, I added some decorative detail to the top and sides. The piece I added a handle to (turning it into a mug) was the piece the instructor and I threw together to introduce me to the wheel. (In actuality, he did most of the work.) This was the last piece I glazed, and I got a little experimental, dipping one half in bamboo glaze and the other into a glaze called Hank's shino. The instructor said I should have done the shino first and then the bamboo. That would have prevented the strange bubbling that occurred where the two overlapped. The last two pieces were also thrown. The smaller one is 100 percent my effort. While I was working on the taller one, another student helped some, demonstrating how to pull the clay up from the bottom. Earlier in the quarter, I decided to take the class Pass/Fail to relieve myself of any "grade pressure" I might experience. Today, I told the instructor that I had enjoyed the class and gotten out of it what I had hoped to.
Ceramic Slab Lanterns Cut-Out Design-Ceramic Slab Lanterns Cut-Out Design, Hgh school ceramics project. Slab construction art lesson
New ideas have always come easy to me... One day when I was making some of my hanging planters, I looked at them and saw mountains... That is how my mountain boxes were born!
Process board and examples for students to create a themed slab box. This is a great project as a final for a ceramics class or a 3D unit for beginning or advanced art. The students "Show Off" their new skills and techniques in ceramics like carving/ sgraffito, paper resist, additive/3D, textured/ s...
Hi there, I’m Craig Underhill, and welcome to my studio. And in this masterclass, I will be demonstrating how I make my work. This workshop…
Sgraffito Slab Boxes POWERPOINTThis powerpoint has inspiring ideas for creating slab boxes with sgraffito decorationsFilesPowerPoint Presentation (20 slides) For more ceramics powerpoints check out this link...
Sgraffito (noun) (“scratched”) A ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the sub layer beneath. Objective Create a sturdy clay slab box/vessel and …
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Do you remember when you used a slab to make your tile? Or again when you used a slab to make your mug? Well now let’s construct a box out of our slabs! In your sketchbook, create a cube shap…
