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Potters & Sculptors - Making Rock from Mud
Handbuild Cup
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Comment by Nadine Mercader on March 22, 2014 at 11:02am
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Gorgeous!
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Comment by Dawn Atkin on March 20, 2014 at 11:24am
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Norm, great comment. I really needed that reminder today.
People sometimes ask me how I can bare to part with my best pieces. The answer is simple, my best pieces are yet to come. I am only on trial 30-ish with this cup. I will reach 136 in a couple of years. I think I will start celebrating that milestone.
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Dawn, I should have said, worth the trouble, not with the trouble. my bad. :)
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Dawn - That's what the kiln journal Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Whieldon has written when they were first developing their greenware pattern - "Trial 136, success."
There's a lot of variables involved.
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Dawn, it looks like its with the trouble!
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Actually, I know the answer to that, Juli. I made, essentially, this cup for a year. At first, they all stuck to the kiln shelf (adjust, adjust, adjust) then they didn't get any crystals (adjust, adjust, adjust) and, finally, they started to work. I think I have everything tuned in now, but an element will get a little older, or the glaze will thicken a bit and I will be back to square one. Oh, crystalline glazes; a love and a curse. : )
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Dawn, so the question here is , how did you do it?? Looks great*)
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Thanks Robert. I'll spend years trying to replicate this. : )
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Way to go Dawn! Spectacular!
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