Session 8

STARTIGN MY LIVE PROJECT – Designing the Mugs and Tea Pot for Titanic Brewery and raising money for Douglas Macmillan Hospice.

At the end of August we are having a fun filled weekend at the Royal Exchange in Stone, where I have been asked to design some mugs and a Tea Pot to raise some money for the charity.

So to start off, I started casting the handles. As you can see from the images below I have done quite a few. My target is to make 40 mugs and 1 Tea Pot.

Session 7

With the stuff out of the kiln we could glaze the objects. We cleared the studio as a big space was needed. I glazed 3 of my sculptures and going to put under glaze on the other two sculptures.

As I had completed my Tea Pot design I started cutting it out and placing the designs on my Tea Pot.

Session 6

As there was enough bowls, jugs, mugs, teapots and my sculpture to pack the kiln, we packed it. As I had never packed one before I was shown how to do it correctly.

Tip: mark where you have put the kiln props as this will help keep everything lined up.

Session 5 Today I got to make my own Sculptures, from small casted objects which would lead to a final outcome. Today’s session was just about playing around with shapes to create a more abstract final outcome. I got to work on my carving and joining technique. As you can see from the images I really enjoyed playing around with the casted shapes and going to develop them further by adding glazes to the sculptures to bring out the details on each one of the sculptures.