May 15, 2019 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting
Flying pig planter – mishima technique with underglaze and clear glaze on porcelain, mixed with grog Flying pig water bowl for a friend’s cats – underglaze and clear glaze on porcelain
May 13, 2019 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting
Matte white glaze on a mix of unknown claysAn unexpected wood effect for a small series of bowls and tumblers. Combine all of your leftover clays, and this is what you might end up with! White glaze on a heavy grogged reddish clay Underglaze and clear glaze on grey...
Jan 22, 2019 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting
I don’t know if this autumn and winter had me day dreaming of the sun and warmth, but my work suddenly got a lot more colored. I also began testing clays containing quite a bit of grog (tiny particles mixed in with the clay body). If I can’t have the sand...
Jan 18, 2019 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting, Silkscreen printing
I got the most thoughtful Christmas gift from my boyfriend this year: an introduction to screen printing. I spent a fantastic day learning the basics of silk screen printing and experimenting on different media. Screen printing is a technique whereby a mesh is used to...
Dec 28, 2018 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting
White on white (transparent glaze on white stoneware) Practicing shallow bowl forms; in my mind, it was easy, but I failed many times before getting it right. My almost fully installed new micro studio, with invaluable furry accessory (cat enjoying ray of sunlight). A...
Dec 4, 2018 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting
In May, June and July, I spent most of my (free) time decorating plates and bowls. I finally got the results I was looking for these past years and felt so happy that I gathered what was left of my bisque pieces and used them as canvases. I found out that in some...
Oct 24, 2018 | Arts & Crafts with kids, Ceramic, Drawing & Painting
I had quite the love affair with this floating gazelle. She first appeared in one of the drawings for Hello Every Sunday, I then tried to render it as a painting, transformed it into a limited edition print, and finally, illustrated on a plate. I was ready to move on...
Aug 27, 2017 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting, Hello Every Sunday
Simple bowls: (clay 505 with white slip, transparent glaze) Whale bowl: clay 910 with sgraffito on dark brown slip, transparent glaze Mushroom bowls: clay 542, sgraffito on white slip, transparent glaze Belu conveniently giving a sense of scale for the bowls…...
Aug 3, 2017 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting, Hello Every Sunday
I haven’t posted in a while, not for a lack of new material to show, but I can get very lazy when comes the time to put things together on a page and write down some words. However, I’ve been busy working, drawing, throwing on the wheel. ;-) Here are a few...
May 14, 2017 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting
Transparent glaze on marbled clay (#542 and #910) and black slip plus transparent glaze on #910. Marbled clay bowls, and a black plate that I’ve been wanting to make for a while… And I was anxious to see how these would come out of the kiln, but I’m...
Apr 2, 2017 | Ceramic, Drawing & Painting, Hello Every Sunday
Mushrooms carved in clay (#910, with black slip inside) Some of the drawings for Hello Every Sunday, week 13, see them all at helloeverysunday.tumblr.com. Or, you can go to instagram.com/ladatcha/ for HES and more.
