primalmommy@IVILLAGE.COM on mon 18 feb 02
A while ago, a potter or two had mentioned being disappointed in the lack of info about how Duncan Ross made those glorious glowing terra-sig pots on the cover of the Ceramics Monthly.
I'm having a lovely florida vacation but it means enduring two solid weeks without clay in my hands-- so I've ransacked the library. In The Complete Potter series, SAWDUST FIRING (Karin Hessenberg) describes how Ross fires his work, and describes the intricate process of his decoration. Not that the reader can run out and duplicate his successes...
Sometime next week I'm taking a day all to myself to spend in Sarasota. I remember reading that Susan Fox Hirschmann's pots are in a gallery there, and Elca Branman has invited me to drop by; any other suggestions for the sarasota/englewood area would be welcomed.
Yours, Kelly from Ohio (who is so desperate to make SOMEthing, ANYthing, that I bought some sculpey polymer clay at the craft store... I can hear Vince Pitelka saying, "It's not clay, it's PLASTIC!" For your information Vince, right on the label it says, "Better than clay". So it must be true.)
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Jocelyn McAuley on tue 19 feb 02
Thanks for being our research librarian Kelly!
I too have wanted more tangible information at my finger tips on this
potter's techniques. I forgot to ask for help finding information though!
Lo and behold, my library has this book.
I don't spose you've run across detailed acounts of Brother Thomas's
forming techniques? :) Couldn't hurt to ask!
Jocelyn
-whose clay "entry drug" was polymer clay. Wonderful stuff- people
actually throw the stuff with vaselin as their water! It's really
wonderful for its faux properties- can mimic many different types of
stone. I've always wanted to try the opal making instructions. Have fun-
but be conscious of the plastisizers in the stuff.
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Jocelyn McAuley ><<'> jmcauley@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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