Chalices: Time consuming... beautiful... harder than it looks.Patience required.
Made my first chalices today. Made the top part yesterday... Tough to make the bottom part. It messed up on many more stems of the chalice before I got four that were good. I have a few friends interested in purchasing communion sets, which is wonderful. These are made with earthen red clay. they're smaller than they look and they'll shrink for sure. Next, I'll make several different sized plates. Overall, I"m pleased...
Made my first chalices today. Made the top part yesterday... Tough to make the bottom part. It messed up on many more stems of the chalice before I got four that were good. I have a few friends interested in purchasing communion sets, which is wonderful. These are made with earthen red clay. they're smaller than they look and they'll shrink for sure. Next, I'll make several different sized plates. Overall, I"m pleased...
Made them in two steps:
bowl part... top part of chalice (in this pic, turned upside down). Then I made the stem (or whatever it's called) and slipped and scored the two pieces together.
This all took so long. Got one of my bowls out of the bisque kiln and it had a few cracks in the bottom. That was the first time that's ever happened. Put glaze on it anyway to see what'll happen. Made another bowl...
Things just didn't come easy today. Yes, I tell myself; there will be days like this. Didn't even have time to run.
Oh, yesterday, I also finished this plate by puting a sgraffito spiral design on it. I'll do some different glazing with this one. 
1 comment:
Wow, you are really accomplishing a lot. I've yet to try a chalice, one of these days. I am tempted to try the sgraffito technique on one of my slipped pieces, especially when I keep seeing your wonderful pieces. I may have to give it a try, thanks for the inspiration.
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