Friday, February 10, 2006

Test Test Test Test 6:30:22 PM    Comments? []

Friday, January 27, 2006

Kung Hey Fai Choi A Dog in Cheung Sam is better than a dog in a dinner. 6:38:13 PM    Comments? []

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Finocchio On My Back 3:06:05 PM    Comments? []

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

In The Kitchen Easy Peasy The Original 8:01:54 PM    Comments? []

Monday, November 7, 2005

Langoustine - the saga continues Revision 9:42:22 PM    Comments? []

Thursday, October 27, 2005

UK Artist and Designer and ME Today is set up time for the Islington contemporary Art and Design Fair. Tonight is the private view behind the Angel Tube. The whole weekend will be an opportunity to view and buy the work of contemporary UK artists and designers and ME. Time to pimp mayware. 9:08:35 AM    Comments? []

Monday, October 24, 2005

When Langoustine gone bad It must be Monday!! [First Draft] 9:41:21 PM    Comments? []

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Trying out a new feature on a lazy saturday afternoon. 2:04:25 PM    Comments? []

Friday, October 21, 2005

Another test!! 2:39:50 PM    Comments? [] Test Again 8:20:13 AM    Comments? []

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

More Fruit Pies Another Version 9:07:49 PM    Comments? [] Fruit Pie I love Fruit Pies 6:53:03 PM    Comments? [] Test I haven't been able to post for a month. This is a test. 6:36:00 PM    Comments? []

Friday, August 12, 2005

Please and Thank You Don't forget!! 11:35:30 AM    Comments? []

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Studio Wall Free wall decoration courtesy of Home Depot [Astoria, NYC], Disney paint swatches. 6:25:06 PM    Comments? []

Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Bearly Naff Illustration done today: Bad Bear Day. 10:04:53 PM    Comments? []

Monday, August 1, 2005

Chinese In San Francisco The Illlustrated London News, Jan. 23, 1875 8:17:59 PM    Comments? []

Sunday, July 31, 2005

On the way to Palm Studio Little Venice, St John's Woods 11:09:26 AM    Comments? []

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Chinese Prisioner 5:46:28 PM    Comments? []

Monday, July 18, 2005

Hyde Park Pavilion 2005: A'lvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond - Arup Serpentine Gallery at the back 1:10:43 PM    Comments? []

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

On my way to the Globe Theatre Morris dancers in front of the Tate Modern on St George Day - also William Shakespeare's birthday. 10:14:51 PM    Comments? []

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Slippery I've been slurping around with thick porcelain slip on stoneware. The porcelain slip gives a strange quality to the stoneware. It looks good with my cheap jade glaze. This week, I started doing some 'Joanna Howells' without knowing exactly what she does with her slip. So far so good, except the slip can get bubbly if I move it around too much - and I can't take the air bubbles out like I do with plaster. Will play some more. I had also resort to making fresh porcelain slip. The freaking rusty wheel head drives me crazy. Myiolicka Did two maiolica test tile with white cherry glaze. [Raspberry sans chrome] This glaze is not dusty like a traditional maiolica glaze that I know from Sicily. I did a couple of drawings and colour charts with all my stains. It was fun. Will see how the colours come out in cone 8. Also made a plate trying out the gay sailor relief. I think it was a success. It works okay with the plaster mould backing. Today I can't seem to work it out on a vertical vase. Maybe I have to look into sprigging. 8:55:29 PM    Comments? []

Friday, March 18, 2005

Bingo Firing I went to open my kiln to day. The hand built flat vase came out very good. The colour was right on. I finally get it that I don't have to slave myself to one firing temperature. The bisque firing was sufficient to get the iron red colour that I need. I'm please that it came out. This is the problem with sculpture - multiple firing - too expensive to make. I didn't get an explosion in my kiln this time with the tapioca in porcelain. The new firing ramp works out alright, but it used 36.6 kw rather than the usual 28 Kw. So it is more expensive to fire these little buggers. I'm a bit sensitive to cost as I just got the electricity bill! 9:19:30 PM    Comments? []

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

200 gram Balls I didn't like the mini bowl throwing exercise yesterday. I went to studio today. What did I do? I wedge 20 balls of 200 gm porcelaina and started throwing, like I'm processed. I have much success today; I did 14 sake bowls and only chucked 6 balls in an hour. I even played with the profile edges in different ways. Today, the weather was very nice, spring is in the air, and I can almost put away the ski jacket for the studio. I went to the country fair this evening to help Linda. It reminded me of esoterica in San Fran. 10:47:04 PM    Comments? []

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Read something on clayart about making small half pound bowls for glaze test. I liked the idea, so I wedged 20 balls of 200g [slight less than half a pound] porcelain and threw. It turned out throwing small balls take some getting used to. I poked my finger in the centre and it went straight to the wheel. I only threw a few successful ones and I stopped, I think this takes too much clay for nothing. I will make little tomb stones for the glaze tests. 7:39:14 PM    Comments? []

Sunday, March 13, 2005

Some Understanding of Stoneware Glazes After I have digested what I've learnt from the lecture yesterday. I did a Si:Al graph with the high magnesium glaze grid. Then I followed what Mike had said and plot the materials on the graph as well. I feel like getting an eye test, every new bit of glaze information is like an optometrist putting a stronger lens on me and I gradually am seeing better! The material graph actually show why a particular area of the glaze grid is glossy. The area follows the plotted graph and it works. Well, almost. There is zinc oxide in the recipe and the zinc has no al or si input, therefore it's not in the grid. But the zinc is an important secondary flux and I know that it affects how the glaze look. Click here to see some photos from the lecture. 8:56:10 PM    Comments? []

Saturday, March 12, 2005

Understanding Stoneware Glazes Today at the Craft Council from 2 - 4:30 pm, Mike Bailey led a lecture on understanding stoneware glazes. A quick demo on LOI was done and the reasons explained. He took us through a quick calculation on % analysis. Without the calculation, we cannot plot the graphs. Then we each took some tiles and assign codes to them by appearance; going from matte to transparent. From this grid/chart, we understand where the eutetic point of the glaze is. Knowing this position, we know how to balance a glaze. We can also plot the position of a material. It helps to have this knowledge for adjusting glaze; sometimes, it has to do with the flux, and sometimes, it maybe the silica that requires adjusting. All this information is in his book. He made it much eaiser to understand by showing us all the fired tiles. 7:20:35 PM    Comments? []

Friday, March 11, 2005

Cold Fingers I was going to go to studio and attached handles, but it's so cold and windy outside. I was sure the studio is sub-zero. My fingers started to hurt just thinking about it. I stopped by and check on my mugs. It turned out I left the heater on since Tuesday. Great. I left and went to the gym to take a shower. 7:19:51 PM    Comments? [] My island gal pal just told me her new web site at www.juliet-robins.co.uk is up. It's a well designed site of ceramics and photography. 3:09:07 PM    Comments? []

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

The Hidden Art Schools Project 2005 THEN NOW FUTURE - 10th Anniversary The exhibiton starts today at 4 pm at The Prince's Foundation. I will be exhibiting with local pupiils and teachers. I have led 2 workshops with 2 different schools - the Newington Green and Grasmere Primary. It would be interesting to see how everyting turns out. Click here to see some photos from the private view. The student works are the schools that I had worked with. 11:50:43 AM    Comments? []

Monday, March 7, 2005

My London Potters My gallery page at the London Potters web site is up today. The London Potters Selected Exhibition Advert is sent to Ceramic Review. Meanwhile I still haven't got my copy in the post. Some sad clown must have stolen it from my mail box. The private view card artwork is also sent to the postcard company in Ireland. They should arrive on the 24th of March, so piss off, toothache!! 9:34:16 PM    Comments? [] Then Now Future This afternoon, I am going to drop off work for the Hidden Art Schools Project 2005 at The Princes Foundation. I only have a plinth of 115 cm to 40 cm, so I don't have to bring a lot of work. This exhibition is really for the pupils and their work. I don't know if I'm the Then or the Now? I have some mugs I really to put handles on. I'm a bit nervous about them. With the studio so cold. I'm not sure if it's the temperature or I'm just rubbish with handle attaching. I started using the slip recipe John Britt gave me, it seem to work better. But I'm still not quite happy with the shape - I'm not sure if I want the Strong Look or the wimpy look. It's hard to tell, my fingers were in pain from the freezing studio 10:46:04 AM    Comments? []

Sunday, March 6, 2005

I just found out I can't WYSWYG my entry. Oh, what fun!! But I put my own catagory links on the navigation page. It's a start. 11:37:43 PM    Comments? [] Max 18 cm 3:56:01 PM    Comments? [] Day 2 - working out posting foto, still can't copy and paste. I went to Astanga yoga yesterday for the first time. The teacher wasn't very good, typical of gym yoga class. 11:33:28 AM    Comments? []

Saturday, March 5, 2005

Day one - Installation 9:49:13 PM    Comments? []

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