My indian pot. NO his lips aren't that dark. LOL Damn camera anyway

the snowman

the vampire frog. The orangy yellow spots are from the camera.

So awesome Dals...I LOVE the frog!

You are VERY talented!

Sarah

Thanks Srt, Im hoping to find a christmas themed one similar to him to do also.

Dals I love this how do you get this stuff and after you paint it how do you fire it?

PD its all fired before I paint it. You only put in glazes to be refired. I get the stuff from ceramic stores.

so you don't have to refire it after painting it to make it glosy?

I seen this one program where you can use a micro wave to fire ceramics. Is that true or did I misunderstand them.

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I seen this one program where you can use a micro wave to fire ceramics. Is that true or did I misunderstand them.

I haven't heard that one. I don't think it would work on the ceramics I do. Due to the fact that they are fired at such a high temp.

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so you don't have to refire it after painting it to make it glosy?

Nope if I fired it after I painted it, the paint would burn off. Depending on what piece I'm doing I either use a matte finish coat or a high gloss finish coat. On these I used the high gloss coat.

I was thinking about taking classes. so I can make things or whatever I need huge coffee mugs.

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I was thinking about taking classes. so I can make things or whatever I need huge coffee mugs

Pd if you can find classes to take, do it. It is fun and relaxing. I do have to tell you though that if you are going to be doing coffee mugs those will need to be refired with glaze on them. Other wise you won't beable to use them. But you can lots of fun picking out the glazes and stuff and come up with some pretty cool patterns. I have done a couple of items that way. I have glazed the inside of a couple of pots, and a spoon rest.

Well I need to do something I wonder how much it would cost to get the equipment < pt so I can do the firing my self

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I wonder how much it would cost to get the equipment < pt so I can do the firing my self

LOTS of money, which is why I don't have a kiln yet. Still trying to figure out away to convince the hubby that its a good buy. LOL

is it around $1000?

Pd thats for a small one with no extras. If you go bigger and with more extras its more than that.

I was just taking a guess Dals

Reading these posts is making me wish I would have taken ceramics class in high school. To think of all of the cool things I could have made...

Sheltie, I loved being able to pour my own. But the store that I used to go to closed. And I haven't been able to find anyother place that would let me pour them.

Here is what I did for Ivans breeders for christmas.

A garden gnome.