Pierced Trivet

Commercial clear glaze over slips. Low fire. 

Even More Little Bead Dishes

No, that's NOT a missed spot in the middle of the bottom photo. This is a pink glaze with white crystals. One crystal landed neatly in the middle. 

Latest Bead Dishes

Both are low fire using commercial crystal glazes. I pressed a design into the center of each dish to see how the design would look with a crystal glaze. Some are better than others. 

Bead Pot

This bead pot was made from ^6 clay and glazed with Waterfall Brown from Mastering ^6 Glazes. Finally! I got the glaze to run and to make a really nice break at the top of the pot. 

Jewelry Pieces and Cabochons

The top and bottom cabs are roughly the size of a quarter. The other cab is slightly larger. The donuts are approximately 1 3/4" - 2".  All are from the ^6 firing. The pieces that look like chocolates are made from a brown clay that fires to the color of black coffee. I used slip trailing to make the squiggles on  top of the "candy" pieces. 

Low Fire Crystals

^04 commercial crystal glazes on the paperweights. And that's a light reflection not an unglazed spot on the top photo. 

Crystal Experiment

^6, commercial crystal glaze and I fired it according to the instructions in a computer controlled electric kiln. I used a lot more glaze than I usually do. Note that I have a hard time getting glazes to run. What I didn't use was a porcelain clay. So..... my next experiment will be on porcelain. I will get these commercial glazes to work! In the mean time, I am getting great colors on the paper weights. 

The Permeable Brain Series

The front and back of two of The Permeable Brain sculpture series. All done in low fire with underglazes and commercial glazes. 

Seed Bead Pot

I've tested out the seed bead pot. It's perfect for pouring the seed beads back into the tube. That little pot is going to save me a whole lot of misery and a whole lot of little beads. Must make more of them  and put them in the etsy store. 

Newest Little Platters

I did a ^05 firing yesterday and unloaded all sorts of little treasures this afternoon. I'll take better photos once I can get outside and shoot in the daylight. 

No, It's NOT a Tea Pot

It's a pot designed to pour my seed beads back into the tubes without sending beads all over the table and the floor. 

New Jewelry Pieces

The photography isn't the greatest, but here's  first look at what came out of the kiln. I did a program for a crystal glaze firing. The crystal glazes came out without crystals. The rest of the glazes were interesting. I'll take better photos outside on the weekend. 

Jim's Latest Estrusions

I neglected to mention that all the extrusions are Jim's work. He's been working with low-fire clay. First, he gathered up all the reclaim buckets we had for ^04, mixed it all together, and made an interesting clay body that can never be reproduced. He said it was perfect for extruding. I bet it was. Those reclaim buckets have been hanging around for about a year waiting for us to turn reclaim into clay. Lots of mold, lots of organic stuff, well aged. I'm so glad that Jim is having fun working with clay. 

Oh Jimmy Boy, the pipes the pipes are calling .......

More Extrusions

No bottoms - these are sculptures. I love what the glazes did on them. 

More Extrusions

These all have bottoms so they will be used as pencil holders, brush holders, or vases. 

Latest Bead Work

Deb Thuman's Art Page

I now have a fan page on Facebook - Deb Thuman's Art Page. If I did this right, clicking on the title will take you to the page. All are welcome to join. It's where I write about art, post lots of photos, and people can leave comments. 

If clicking on the title doesn't work, here's the web address: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deb-Thumans-Art-Page/167529715986

Being nearsighted is a drag

If I weren't nearsighted, I'd have seen that thread. It's not on the cuff. Nope. It's attached to the needle. I didn't realize I had left it on the table and so the thread is in most of the photos. 

Anyway, this is the new cuff. I call it Moods. The blue beads are a darker, far less vibrant blue. Sometimes I'm sparkly and happy, sometimes, I'm blue. The purple is for healing. The shell is for my love of bodies of water. 

This time, with photos

Another Glaze Experiment

The bowl with the blue glaze that breaks over texture is ^10 reduction fired. More of Jim's glaze findings. The second is a wall hanging. No, it's NOT a pig. It's a kitty. It's ^04 and I love the low-fire crystalline glazes. 

Peach Bloom

Jim loves searching for and experimenting with different glaze recipes. Here's his peach bloom on my bowl . I think that's tea dust on the back. ^10 reduction using Super Sculpty, a clay designed for ^6 through ^10. 

Latest Dye Results

I dyed bamboo dobby cloth. I love the feel of this fabric, feels like fine silk but has the strength of bamboo. I learned something interesting in the dyeing process. When I dye fabric in mid-summer when the temperatures are in the high 90's, I get more intense colors. Yesterday, we had temperatures in the low 80's so the colors are softer. These fabrics will eventually turned into garments. 

This Time, With Better Photography

City Lights

When I was a kid, we lived out in the middle of nowhere. It was a farming area that would, in about 20 years, become over priced housing with as many houses crammed into a subdivision as possible. As a kid, I longed to live in a city where there would be lots of people (all dressed in Victorian garb) and lots of lights (all street lights would be gas) and life would be so exciting. Even as an adult, when I took Jim to New York City, I took him up on top of the Empire State Building at night so we could see the city lights. We danced on top of the world. 

And so I made this cuff with those magical memories in mind. 

Yes, that's one of my ceramic buttons on the cuff. 

My latest piece on etsy

Here's my latest tile on etsy. This is my original design using slips and glazes. The tile is about 6" square. 

Getting the DVR to Record

I have Direct TV, but my DVR is a stand alone unit and I was told it was simple to use. Hah! I can set it to record, but when I try to play back, I get fuzz. 

What am I doing wrong? Better yet - send me a 12-year-old. I wonder if today's kids have any idea how much money they could make hiring themselves out as tech advisors to the folks like me. 

Tile

Not the greatest shot - but it's my version, rendered in tile, of the mountains out back of my house. I moved the sun from the east to the north to rise over the mountains. I believe that's called artistic license.  

Latest Tile Listed on Etsy

I've listed this tile on my etsy site. Click on the I (heart) etsy logo at the top of the page, and you will be magically transported to my etsy store. 

Terra Sig Doesn't Seem to Like Me

I tried using Terra Sig on two of the bead bowls. While I like the color and the semi-gloss of the finish, I don't like the white edges. No matter how many layers of terra sig I put on the dishes, the white edges  remained. The rest of the bead bowls will have regular glaze on them. I'm done with this experiment.