Antoinette Badenhorst on mon 3 apr 00
Morning all porcelain gurus. Recently I am inspired to do the most wonderful
(to me it is) different designs in clay. This is a break away from what I
have done this far. I have tried these designs in my pitfire where it is safe
to fire without any distortion. Some of them though, just lend them to be
functional, for instance this urn that I make as follows. I throw a cylinder
on the wheel with both ends open,squash a little oval and make clayslabs to
close on both ends. Then I throw an opening and add a lid that fits down in
this opening. Still work on the feet support and that is my thread. On
whatever feet support I put this, I cannot think of a way to glaze and fire
them safely. Fire them on the feet support will make the body too heavy to
carry them. I do not want to give heavy feet. Fire on the side where I can
leave the glaze, will give trouble with the lid. I think of supporting this
in calcinied alluminia as I done before, but then I will have to leave
unglazed and that might not be exceptable for function...or will it? What
will happen if I fire the lid in calcinied alluminia and the body on its
side? Or...,this is my big question, will I have to work out the perfect
balance for the feet and body? It cannot go with three feet, because of the
body design.
Does any one know of a magical way for me to do this. I spent so much time on
making these pieces that I will hate to find one broken in the kiln!
Thanks for any help.
Antoinette.(always with the most wonderful difficult ideas just before an
exhibit)
Antoinette Badenhorst
PO Box 552
Saltillo,MS
38866
The Brinks on tue 4 apr 00
----- Original Message -----
From: Antoinette Badenhorst
To:
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 2:57 PM
Subject: Firing this porcelain design a challenge...or?
Antoinette: How about leaving the bottom of the cylinder unglazed and set
it on several shelf support, a little taller than the feet. Put a little
grog on the shelf supports, so the object can move while shrinking. Or if
you have some bisqued pieces the right shape, you could use them for
supports...they would shrink with your cylinder. Hope this helps , if I am
visualizing your piece correctly.
Ann Brink in CA, enjoying the warm days lately.
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Morning all porcelain gurus. Recently I am inspired to do the most
wonderful
> (to me it is) different designs in clay. This is a break away from what I
> have done this far. I have tried these designs in my pitfire where it is
safe
> to fire without any distortion. Some of them though, just lend them to be
> functional, for instance this urn that I make as follows. I throw a
cylinder
> on the wheel with both ends open,squash a little oval and make clayslabs
to
> close on both ends. Then I throw an opening and add a lid that fits down
in
> this opening. Still work on the feet support and that is my thread. On
> whatever feet support I put this, I cannot think of a way to glaze and
fire
> them safely. Fire them on the feet support will make the body too heavy to
> carry them. I do not want to give heavy feet. Fire on the side where I can
> leave the glaze, will give trouble with the lid. I think of supporting
this
> in calcinied alluminia as I done before, but then I will have to leave
> unglazed and that might not be exceptable for function...or will it? What
> will happen if I fire the lid in calcinied alluminia and the body on its
> side? Or...,this is my big question, will I have to work out the perfect
> balance for the feet and body? It cannot go with three feet, because of
the
> body design.
> Does any one know of a magical way for me to do this. I spent so much time
on
> making these pieces that I will hate to find one broken in the kiln!
> Thanks for any help.
> Antoinette.(always with the most wonderful difficult ideas just before an
> exhibit)
>
> Antoinette Badenhorst
> PO Box 552
> Saltillo,MS
> 38866
>
Toni Martens on wed 5 apr 00
Antoinette
Just a thought, I have fired "things with legs" with their legs up in
the air, on the rim in other words and placed the lid right next to the
main pot, made a small foot on the lid, specially for standing on
during firing, it did not interfere with the overall design of the lid and,
I have had no lid distortion. Maybe I have been lucky, but I have
done several this way and was able to glaze all but the rims.
Hope this is of some help.
Toni
On 3 Apr 2000, at 17:57, Antoinette Badenhorst wrote:
Fire them on the feet support will make the body too heavy
to
> carry them. I do not want to give heavy feet. Fire on the side where I can
> leave the glaze, will give trouble with the lid. I think of supporting this
> in calcinied alluminia as I done before, but then I will have to leave
> unglazed and that might not be exceptable for function...or will it? What
> will happen if I fire the lid in calcinied alluminia and the body on its
> side? Or...,this is my big question, will I have to work out the perfect
> balance for the feet and body? It cannot go with three feet, because of the
> body design.
> Does any one know of a magical way for me to do this. I spent so much time on
> making these pieces that I will hate to find one broken in the kiln!
> Thanks for any help.
> Antoinette.(always with the most wonderful difficult ideas just before an
> exhibit)
>
> Antoinette Badenhorst
> PO Box 552
> Saltillo,MS
> 38866
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