New Houses

I took a crazy departure from my usual brown houses and added other colors as well.   I wasn't sure if I would like the new color scheme - but it turned out really nice.

You can't tell from the picture, but this one is also a bit bigger than the houses I've made before this.

The most unnerving thing about all this is that I glazed them and then they came out of the kiln only one day before the ArTour I was participating in last weekend. 

This spindly tall guy also came out better than I had hoped.  I used a copper glaze that turns to bluish green when fired to cone 6.  The roof is this really metallic bronze colored glaze that adds a whole new level of shiny to everything.

Carving and Glazing

It's a butterfly!  I spent a lot of my time last week and this past weekend trimming lots of little things: magnets, ornaments, and pendants.  It;s really one of my favorite ways to lose myself in something.  Smoothing out the rough edges and adding decorative details. 

Of course, now that I have a bunch of those finished and bisque fired - it means that I have a couple hundred little tiny things to glaze.   

 

There are probably about 40 things in that little green bowl alone. 

It would probably be a lot faster to glaze with one glaze per piece.  It would also be boring and less satisfying overall.

A little village where tiny people live.  Their houses are whimsical, but the residents' home maintenance skills are also highly questionable.

Tall and skinny house