Welcome to my blogspot! I have a included a series of pictures that show the steps I use in making my Royal Sonic Chicken Family. In this series the first slide shows the RSC Bodies, tail sections, heads and stands.

Slide 1-Royal Sonic Chicken bodies, tail sections, heads and stands.

The second slide shows 2 RSC  bodies with head and tail sections attached. Also shown are additional bodies, heads, tail sections and stands that will be shown assembled in later photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 3 shows four RSC bodies, tail sections and heads attached to their stands. At this stage the the RSChickens are ready for the addition of wings, feathers, crowns and face features.

The fourth slide shows the fully assembled RSC King, Queen, Princess and Prince. 

The next step is to bisque fire the Royal Family. Then complete the process with glazing and glaze firing! Hope you enjoyed the series of slides on the process used to assemble the Sonic Chicken Royal Family.  Come back toward the end of June to see the finished Royal Fowls!!!

 

Hi All-I did a small kiln glaze firing over the week-end. See the photo above. The group photo shows 4 teacups I used to test a new glaze that I like. The glaze is Fracasa ash glaze. It gives a blue or green color depending on the colorants added to the base glaze. Let me know what you think?  There are three small 3"X4" (HxW) bowls in the back row along with a small oval thrown and re-shaped dish 1.5"X4"X7" (HxWxL) with blue glass filled center.You can see the pyrometric cones used on this shelf. Cone 4,5,6 are down and cone 7 is soft.

Above is a wall hanging planter. A customer ordered 6 of these planters. I made 8 but could only get 4 in the kiln at one time. I will fire the others this weekend. The cones on this shelf are all down. Meaning that this area of the kiln fired to cone 7.

Hi all! Great News!!

 I have been juried into the Chatham Artists Guild!!   I want to thank the Artists Guild for inviting me to join and Gerald Dukes for doing such a great job photographing my pottery! Here's Gerald's phone number if you want to have your art photographed by a professional! 919-444-9199. 

Here are a couple of examples of Gerald's photografic abilities! The first photo is a two piece pot with black underglaze hand painted design. The size is 17.5X6.25X6.25 inches. Price on the vase is $125. The bottom photo is of three little Cosmic Piggies. Left to Right are Big Swamp Double Tail, Mr. Leather and Mr. Cool Daddy with shades and dreadlocks. Sizes are 5.5X5.25X6.25; 4.75X4X6; and 4.25X4.25X5.25 inches. Hope you like them! All these Cosmic Piggies have sold: however, more will be made and will be available for $35. You can see more of my art at the Joyful Jewel in downtown Pittsboro NC.


 

Hi All- I haven't been on my blog for a while due to a knee replacement!! See the picture above. I am still recovering. Lots of physical therapy and stationary bike riding, stretching and walking. The feeling I have every morning is that a tight band has been placed around my leg and it does not feel like it will bend. However, with the physical therapy etc mentioned above I am able to get moving. In fact I have started making some pots !! Send me some comments if you like the scar!!