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 the work that I did at the Richland College of the Dallas College for the Fall 2022 semester.
The main thing that I worked on this semester was all of Darwin's Finches. There's an entire video on the finches, dedicated to it, it's linked up there, somewhere. But I will go over them real quickly. Starting down here, this is the green warbler finch. These are all cold finished with acrylic. I fired them to cone 04 after sculpting them, stoneware, and then cold finished them with acrylic and sealed them with mod podge. This is the small ground finch. All the scientific names are in the other video. This is the large tree finch. There's 14 of these. This is the medium ground finch.
All of these are males in their breeding colors. Because there was a little bit of plumage differences between the males and the females. All of these are also made to scale, and I accounted for shrinkage too, so they are pretty much mostly to scale. This is the grey warbler finch. This is the large ground finch. A lot of these are very dapper little black birds. This is the small tree finch. This is the large cactus finch. This is the common cactus finch. I did experiment a little bit with postures. I didn't want them all to have the same posture. This is the sharp beak ground finch. That one had a long name. This is the medium tree finch. This is the mangrove finch, this one's endangered. This is the woodpecker finch. This one here, the last one, is the vegetarian finch, and this one is the largest of them. These are hallowed out. So they aren't as heavy as they might look, or maybe they are just exactly what you would expect.
I did a lot of pottery. I had a few different missions this class. I have all my glaze notes here for starters. I made a sake set. It's a type of set to serve Japanese rice wine. I used the firebrick over obsidian for this whole set. This is a gift for my husband for Christmas. He really wanted one, so I made him one in his favorite colors.
Then, I have a friend in class who has a ton of commercial glazes, and I love to experiment with those. She shared them with me, so I have a lot of different commercial glaze combinations here. I got my glaze notes, let me just dig up everything.
For this one, the outside is Mayco shipwreck, and the inside is a studio glaze from the college called "the best blue". Which is arguable, if it's the best blue. This clay was B-mix.
This is the Laguna frost. We threw some porcelain this semester, so I just had a bowl. It's got mino white on most of it. It did a little crawling around the edge, which is not great. Then on the inside, when everybody was opening up their glazes I was stealing all of their little chunks that were coming off the rims and I threw them all into the bottom on top of the mino white. It made a pretty cool effect.
Continuing our experiments with porcelain, let me just jump around a little bit here. I also made a bonsai planter. It did crack a little bit on the bottom, which is typical, I would say, porcelain behavior. This one is Amaco honey flux over Mayco cenote, and I love how that came out. I was getting a little dangerous mixing brands, but it is really beautiful. I don't care if it's cracked, I'm going to keep that one, and just use it until the bottom falls out, so whatever.
The main reason we even did porcelain this semester is because we were doing a class experiment with crystalline glazes. So our professor made up some crystalline glazes and worked out a firing schedule. We all made some pieces to fire with that glaze. My first, and probably the best piece, was this bowl. This is all on Laguna frost. It's got a lot of great crystals pooled in the bottom. It's not food safe, it's got, like, clearly dangerous texture happening in there. I put some matte black on the outside. It's cool, I guess. It's cool to see the crystals. This is a cobalt crystalline. Not being completely in charge of that process, is like, it's cool to see, but also I would rather be in charge of the process. The glaze would be more meaningful to me if I was the one firing it. But that's just me. This was another one, and it ran all the way down the bottom. I knew it was going to run and it's not like a surprise. I just still have to grind that. This one really didn't make any crystals. This was a crystalline with copper in it, and I put some obsidian on the bottom. I didn't layer them over each other, just next to each other. The crystalline ran over the obsidian like I thought it would, but it didn't really do anything interesting.
So moving on, I had some pieces left with that dragon fruit that I finished up at school because my friend had those cool glazes. Let me see what we got here, consult my notes. Make sure you take glaze notes. It helps a lot whenever you have to remember what you did. So this one is enchanted forest by Mayco. Really nice. I figured that most of these would come out pretty great on this clay body. It handles glaze really well. This is that dragon fruit by Industrial Minerals Company. Then this one is also shipwreck, also very nice. I like this clay body, big fan, will order again. This last one is obsidian on the spot, this is the raw dragon fruit clay, the outside around the rim is cenote by Mayco, and on the inside it is Amaco glacier. The glacier on this clay body did run and craze on the inside. So not the best, but the cenote looks great with some really nice dripping.
My next thing I was working on this semester was making some lidded jars, trying that out for the first time. I made two lidded jars. My jars are the kind where they are beveled so they fall into each other. They both fit pretty well. This one had a little bit more running than I was expecting, so I need to sand that one down, and grind it down a little bit to make it fit a little bit better. The glazes that I used on these were, let's see, this was muddy waters on the outside and then the inside is the temmoku. That definitely looks muddy. I mean I don't hate it, but I don't really love it. I think this is going to be my jar to keep my matcha in if I can figure out a way to make this seal just a little bit better. That's a project for another time. This other one, is a mystery, because someone didn't write it down. But I'm pretty sure that it's just honey flux on the whole thing, and then on the very top it's an indigo blue.
The next thing I was doing was throwing large bowls. I have a friend who wanted a large bowl because she makes sourdough bread, and I really wanted to try to make her a bowl, and see if that was possible, and then things go out of hand.
I started with a 5lb bowl. This is all B-mix. This is the winter wood on the outside, Mayco winter wood. On the inside it is Spectrum running hot chowder. Which is a really pretty glaze. Honestly, super impressed. Love this one. Then I threw a 10ln bowl. The 10lb bowl here is Mayco olive float on the outside and mino white on the inside. This is the one I think I am going to give my friend. It came out really exceptional, and I think it's big enough for what she needs it for.
When I say things got out of control, they did. I was like "how much clay can we thrown on the wheel?" So we threw 20lb, me and my professor centered it, and we threw this 20lb bowl, which I turned into a planter, on the wheel. It is very heavy and very large, and I don't know if it's going to fit in my kiln. Hopefully it does, if it doesn't I've got a friend that I might ask to fire it. I made a quick short video of throwing this, and then there is a full length video with all of my instructor and me talking and laughing and everything, all that, that's all on my Patreon, which you can support my channel, find extra content and get early access to all of this content at patreon.com/bluenosetrading.
That is everything that we made this semester. It was mostly the finches project, that was a big project. Then the crystalline, experimenting with some bowls and stuff. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you guys would like to stick around and see a weekly art video, you can subscribe to my channel, Blue Nose Trading. And again, if you want early access and to help support my channel, go to patreon.com/bluenosetrading.
Remember that you are important, that you have great ideas, and to drink lots and lots of water, and I will see you guys next week.
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