Friday, July 14, 2006

CERAMICA :: Class 3 & 3 1/2






Pues bien, despues de hacer nuestras vasijas las pusimos en el horno, donde cocieron por unas 8 horas (el fuego fue de lento a fuerte y de ahi, a lento) y luego enfriaron por 24 horas, asi que estuvieron listas para ser pintadas!! Las pintamos de adentro hacia afuera, uno puede usar cualquier tecnica, desde usando brochas y pinceles hasta sumergiendo la vasija en la pintura. El secreto es no poner ni mucha ni poca pintura, pues si es poca no tiene el efecto deseado y si es mucha se cocinara con burbujas o simplemente se desprendera de la superficie! :P No tenemos fotos de nuestra pintada... asi que tendran que utilizar su imaginacion!

Una vez pintadas, las vasijas secaron y otra vez fueron puestas al horno, basicamente pasando por el mismo proceso: una vez que la coccion termino, entran a un proceso de enfriamiento y luego se abre el horno un poquito para que comiencen a recibir oxigeno y a enfriar. Tomamos una foto del horno recien abierto y luego cuando lo abrimos completamente... aun asi, hay que esperar bastante. La pintura tiene particulas de arena o cristales que se convierten en vidrio, dandole ese toque que todas las ceramicas tienen.

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Well, after we made our pots and were dry, we placed them in the kiln were they cooked for about 8 hours (the fire went slowly higher and then cooled down slowly back) and they were left to cool down for about 24 hours, so they were now ready to be glazed!! We glazed them from inside out, you may use any technique: from bruses to submerging them or splashing them -well, that was my understanding- and the secret is to not use too much glaze or too little of it, so it looks good! We don't have pictures of our glazing .. but you can use your imagination to picture us doing it! ;)

Once the glaze was dry, they were fired in the kiln basically under the same procedure: once fired they had to be cooled down and the kiln is cracked (slightly open the lid) and then cooled. We took pictures of the kiln cracked and then fully opened... you have to wait quite a bit though! The glaze used has some crystals that become like a glass sheer on top of the ceramic, giving a wonderful touch!

1 Comments:

Blogger Seebz said...

Wow you guys!!

Houman and I have been going for Ceramics out here in Haifa as well.. its an absolutely wonderful feeling to be learning a skill and working your way thorugh it... we havent been able to stay away since then.

good on you two. love, Sahba

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