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A ceramic bowl - layering technique with Jim Robison www.boothhousegallery.co.uk/writing.htm
Jim Robison takes us through the process of making a decorative ceramic bowl/wall hanging with a difference. He uses a process of 'layering' of clay, texture...
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Comment by George Lewter on February 5, 2016 at 9:17pm
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Continuing with the Jim Robison technique in 2016. This is a platter about 15" across.
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Comment by Nadine Mercader on July 18, 2014 at 9:05am
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George I love the first odd shaped one, great job!
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looks good George, Jim makes it looks so easy.
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My second effort with this laminated slab technique was much more successful. Top platter had slips applied to both slabs before layering together and rolling to a thickness slightly greater than thindividual slabs, making the strips and sprigs stand in higher relief from the base slab..
The middle and bottom photos show a round platter where strips were applied above and below a plain clay slab and rolled together at the same thickness as the base slab, and thus a continuous flat surface.
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George, I want to see your bowl trials! Like Norm I absolutely love the entry sculptures. Jim's frame vessel looks like he fires in wood or gas, which is it. I also want to experiment with this technique.
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I love Jim Robison's large assemblage of slab pieces at the entrance to his studio.
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I made my first attempt at this technique yesterday, and got some very interesting patterning in my clay. No relief between the layers as in the video, but it still seems very much worth pursuing. Will post pictures if my 2 bowls dry successfully and again after the glaze firing.
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