Hi guys and welcome back to my channel, Blue Nose Trading. My name is Tori Solis, and today I'm going to be doing a series review of my summer semester 2022 at the Dallas Creative Arts Center. We're just going to get right into it.
For my course this semester, I decided that I wanted as my first mission to make myself a complete table ware set. At least a four piece dining set that's complete for me. I don't really have a ton of people over at any given time, so four pieces is fine.
I made plates, like smaller sized salad plates. I made this entire set with spectacular, Trinity spectacular. I glazed the outsides with Carmen's turquoise, and the inside is waxwing brown. They stack together pretty well. I have the four of the salad, medium sized plates. Then I have the larger dinner plates. That's the bad one, a couple of them stuck and had to be trimmed down. Larger dinner plates. They're pretty consistent. I know they're not perfect, but I learned a ton making this set for myself. I don't think table ware is a thing that I'm going to do for other people. But it was really exciting, and a great challenge to make an entire tableware set. If nothing else than just for myself to have amazing tableware for my house.
These are the cereal bowls. This is the one that is kind of weird. It's a little bit bigger. I made it on a different day. These are the ones that I made all together, and then I decided I needed four, and these were already in the bisque. I didn't have them for reference, so ya know, there's one special one.
These are the pasta bowls. They didn't fit together as well as I wanted. They kind of all came out different sizes, but they're pretty cool. I really like them. I think that eating pasta and other dishes out of big, fat, wide bowls like this is convenient. Pasta bowls.
Then I made four of these mise en place bowls, little side dip bowls; but one of them broke at greenware. So I only have three of these. You win some, you lose some.
That is my table setting, and after this video I'm finally going to be able to wash the whole thing. We are going to start using it tonight, which is exciting.
The form that I learned in this session, because I did want to learn a whole new form, were these coffee pour overs. I made four of them, and in retrospect, I'm going to make them with handle from now on. This one is waxwing brown on the inside and Carmen's turquoise on the outside. They've got a little ring to keep the coffee from dribbling. They've got texture on the inside to help the coffee flow down. I need to test these. I've made them with a white stoneware.
This one is variegated blue slate and waxwing brown on the inside. It's pretty much the same design all around for these. They were thrown completely on the wheel.
This one is seafoam. This is what the seafoam looks like at the Creative Arts Center. I like it, but it's nothing like my seafoam. I don't get it. Waxwing brown on the inside.
Then this last one is waxwing brown on the inside and the Creative Arts Center's oatmeal on the outside. Those are my pour overs that I learned to make. New form, in lock.
I made two dog bowls for my bigger dogs. Because I made my little dog a bowl in my college class and my big dogs needed bowls. I made this one for Beanie and this one for Azuci, or I might have it mixed up. My husband will ultimately decide. They are just some basic dog bowls. This one is sea foam on the inside and they are both oatmeal on the outside. This one was variegated blue slate on the inside.
I use all of these glazes frequently, so if you want the recipes, they're available on my website with tons of test tiles that go over different clay bodies, and what these test out looking like on those different clay bodies, and the recipes that I am using to make them.
This semester we did a raku firing. The full process video that's super fun for this raku firing is going to be coming out really soon. If you're already on my Patreon, you've already seen it, because it gets uploaded to Patreon as soon as I edit videos. On YouTube everything is getting scheduled out. If you want to see everything, up to date, as it comes out, super fast, then definitely consider joining my Patreon at patreon.com/bluenosetrading to help support my channel.
Back to these pieces, let's get a close look at them. We did a raku firing using mica, then I sealed these pots with Mod Podge matte acrylic sealer. Or whatever Mod Podge is, I think it's acrylic.
This one was done with horse hair and also sugar. We used a gold mica, fired it with the mica that we sprayed in a terra sig onto the pot. Then we pulled it out and did some post-firing processing work with the horse hair and the sugar to do localized reduction. That one is probably my favorite one.
I did have two in that firing. This one is great, but it looks the best on the bottom and on this inside, which is the place where dirt is going to be, because it's a planter. With this one I didn't use any horse hair, and I used the copper mica on the bottom and a green mica at the top. I used the sugar with no horse hair. I did add some line on it, carving when I was on the wheel. I thought that adding more line work with the horse hair would just be a little too much design wise for this pot.
That is everything that I made at the Creative Arts Center. I'm not sure when exactly I'm going to be back at the Creative Arts Center. I hope I'm going to be able to go back in the early winter of 2023, or maybe the spring of 2023. I'm going to be super busy for the fall, so it won't be this fall semester. But I am hoping to get back in there and do some awesome work with these guys again.
I will be starting my college fall semester at the Dallas Richland College soon. I will have all of that stuff in the works. If you'd like to stay tuned for my journey, see all my artwork and get a weekly art video, you can subscribe to this channel, Blue Nose Trading. If you'd like to gain early access to all of my videos, help make my content possible, and you know, be awesome, you can find me at patreon.com/bluenosetrading. Thank you guys so much, and I will see you next week.
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