HES, Week 12: Birds in Blue (and More)

Mar 26, 2017 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting, Hello Every Sunday

Black underglaze and clear glaze on marbled clay (#512 and #910) A few completed pieces, final firing and all! Acrylic on paper And this week’s quota of drawing for HelloEverySunday.tumblr.com I’ve added a description of the process for making these birds...

HES, Week 9: Decorating Pottery Pieces

Mar 5, 2017 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting, Hello Every Sunday

Black underglaze on clay #910 (semi-porcelain) and #542 (light grey)   Eight pieces done, 20 more or so to do! These are for this week’s Hello Every Sunday. You can see the first eight weeks on the project’s blog at helloeverysunday.tumblr.com....

22 Ready to Go

Feb 4, 2017 | Ceramic

I just spent three hours sanding these 22 pieces until they felt like baby skin. ;-) It makes it so much easier to paint on the surface once they’re bisqued. They’re now ready to leave for their first firing.

Happy 2017!

Jan 1, 2017 | Ceramic, Goodies, Photo

My best wishes to you for 2017; happy drawings, paintings, collages, pottery and what not! I’ve started working TODAY on a brand new project, besides my current obsession (pottery): a drawing a day for the next 365 days in parallel to Priya from the Plum Tree....

Mushrooms & Whales

Dec 21, 2016 | Ceramic

Ceramics, Autumn 2016

Dec 12, 2016 | Ceramic

Went to get these yesterday at a Studio in Montreal where they kindly fire my stuff. I didn’t know what to expect with that grapevine glaze, but I’m quite happy with the result. The rest was simply glazed with a transparent coat. Most of the pieces were...

Green

Dec 8, 2016 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting

I spent the evening prepping these bisqued pieces for illustration. First: drawing the whales and cutting them out to see how they would look on the plates. On one of my first pieces, I painted the form with a black underglaze but it looked to static for my taste....

Throw baby, throw!

Nov 23, 2016 | Ceramic

Guess who found a nice second-hand Shimpo wheel a few weeks back? :-) I’ve been throwing* ever since. These are due for a first firing And from this summer Black slip and clear glaze on speckled clay Matte white glaze (inside) and clear glaze on clay Discover...

Speckled

Jul 3, 2016 | Ceramic

We had to move back to Montreal last October. I much prefer the countryside to the city, but I tried my best at seeing the positive sides, like living closer to friends and family, getting a lot more choices for all sorts of services, and also, access to ceramic...

Adventures of a Teapot

Sep 5, 2013 | Ceramic

I bought this beautiful handmade teapot last autumn. It must have taken me at least an hour to decide which one I would go back home with.  It’s not so easy to choose! You have to take into consideration the look of the object, the use intended (what quantity...

Pieces from this spring

Aug 24, 2013 | Ceramic

I never showed you what happened with the pieces I was working on this spring… Here they are! This time, I experimented with glazes as well as underglazes.

More pottery

Jun 4, 2013 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting

Underglaze on clay, before the first firing (unfinished pieces) Underglaze and transparent glaze on clay Underglazes and transparent glaze on molding clay You can see in the last photo that the piece I was talking about in the previous post did not come out as I would...