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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Tape Lines
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Friday, December 19, 2014. A while back I ran out of thin tape, the kind I used for taping lines on mugs this summer. The tape was something my husband had already. It looked like a roll of very thin blue masking tape (painter's tape) but it had a shiny surface, more like electrical tape. Tape resist mugs (from the summer). Auto detailing tape (resist). Auto detailing tape applied to a bisque mug. The old stuff wou...
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Cone 6 at home
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Cone 6 at home. My kiln goes to cone 6! It's an old kiln that I got as a hand-me-down and I've never actually tried to fire it this high. Cone 6. Is about 2232 degrees Fahrenheit or 2269 if you fire faster. I don't have pyrometer at home, so I'm not sure how fast I fired the kiln. Cone 6 glaze tests with underglaze and several different glazes. For the Archie Bray workshop. So I purchased...
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Bubble Fail and New Functional Work at Oak Hollow Gallery
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Friday, August 7, 2015. Bubble Fail and New Functional Work at Oak Hollow Gallery. At the end of last month I was trying to make some bubble plates. Using iron oxide. I though the plates looked interesting before they were fired and was hopeful the addition of a clear glaze layer would preserve the look of the bubbles. Iron oxide bubbles before firing. An iron oxide bubble plate after firing. Stop by Oak Hollow.
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: (Basically) Out of Palmer Hall
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Basically) Out of Palmer Hall. Gas kiln ready to move. Old Palmer Hall with the clock tower and Glenn-Anthon in the back. Gas kiln moving out. Palmer Hall has been slated for destruction for basically all of that time. I was originally told the building was "condemned." The things I am most looking forward to leaving behind:. The bumpy walk from Media Services pushing the computer cart.
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Two Busy Weeks: Archie Bray and Seattle
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Two Busy Weeks: Archie Bray and Seattle. A little over a week ago I was in Montana for a workshop, " Pots, A Studied Approach. With Peter Beasecker at The Archie Bray Foundation. In Helena. It was a week long workshop focused on throwing on the potter's wheel and functional pottery form. A wall made of ceramic pipe at Archie Bray. The view of Montana from the B&B where I stayed. Just outsid...
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Layering Underglaze
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Creating and highlighting surface textures encompasses a large portion of my time in the studio. After creating a form, I often spend a great amount of time applying clay sprigs or impressing surfaces with a variety of tools. I also spend a lot of time applying color to theses complex textured surfaces. Textured surface before glazing. Underglaze layered surfaces before glazing. I am an ...
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Bubble Plates
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Friday, July 31, 2015. This weekend my daughter was playing with bubbles in the backyard. Earlier this year at CORE Gallery, another artist, K eunae Song. Had an exhibition of bubbles on glass. Her exhibition included glass objects with evidence of bubbles on them and videos of the bubbles popping on the glass. I assume her bubble mixture included enamel or frits. Bubble plate production set up. Initially, I tried ...
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Glazing at Archie Bray
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Glazing at Archie Bray. One of the most surprising things about the workshop. I took in Montana, a workshop ostensibly focused on the form of functional pottery, was that we spent the first day and half glazing. My glazed work from the workshop. A pitcher by Jeff Campana. Used at the workshop for cream). At all, even though I like the end-result of a glazed piece. Our workshop instructor, st...
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Daily Mini Sculpture Project
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. This page chronicles my daily mini sculpture project from 2012. I haven't continued this project, but I have chosen to keep the page accessible. Starting in March 2012. I decided to make one of these small pieces everyday. So I have been making one piece (almost) every day since. I recently had my work featured on Noah Scalin's blog, Make Something 365. Recap and Found Tools. I am an a...
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: June 2015
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Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture. Quick links for Clay Classes. Daily Mini Sculpture Project. Monday, June 29, 2015. Workshop at Archie Bray, Next Month. Next month I'm heading to Montana to take a workshop with Peter Beasecker. My own work is mostly sculpture. Thrown work in low fire work. And picked up some higher temperature clay on my way in. High fire clay ready for throwing, and thrown. I've thrown 25 lbs this morning and plan to throw some more later today and pull handles and trim today or tomorrow&...