That’s not actually Peritia. It’s the Clinkypaloosa logo medallion, Xavier. He’ll work as a placeholder until we reveal Peritia (and Ferox) at the event. This is going to be a thread for that project.
1st Casting -successful
Fantastic!!
Here is an example of a finished Peritia. You can see more about her and the Peritia Project on my studio blog.
Hi Lesli! This is an amazing adventure you are offering to the hobby. I did ceramics as a teenager and miss it very much. My mom made porcelain dolls and I did everything but dolls. I even used to china paint my ceramics. We cast in ceramic slip and porcelain slip, cleaned out own green-ware, etc., though we never had any luck getting a horse done. I also competed at the Anaheim Doll and Ceramic show for years winning Best in Show with a china painted porcelain rabbit on year. I’ve been wanting to get back into ceramics for years, but I just don’t have the space (and frankly electricity is so expensive here, firing kilns isn’t a great idea for the budget!) But, the medallion size and smaller pieces might just work. I would love more info about small kilns and some good quality under-glazes and supplies. Thank you!
What a great background to have when experimenting with this!
Before I did the mold for Ferox, I did one for Sarah’s hunter mare, Abbigail. I have used regular plaster molds to cast with doll porcelain before, but hers was designed specifically to work well with it. I love the look of translucent underglaze on porcelain, but I needed to get a larger kiln before I could reliably fire it. (My small kiln has a top range of Cone 6, and I found it doesn’t heat evenly at that top temperature.)
So cool! Would love to see what you do with ceramics!
I’ve only done slipcasting under some limited supervision by Joanie, Kristina, and Adalee but it’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I even have a (large) kiln that I’ve fired here a few times many years ago but I need to get its control board replaced.
From the slipcasting workshop at Bring Out Your Chinas many years ago!
I remember that event so fondly!
For people itching to get going, a great place to start is to work on airbrushing skills, if you want to airbrush underglazes. This is maybe the first thing I need to do right now, get my rusty skills active and then more precise.
Ceramics in any form is IMHO delightfully fun and for anyone who fears trying to make realistic colors, you can have so much fun with glazes just doing crazy glaze things. Medallions are the perfect medium to practice on and they’re just fun. Even just picking a single fun glaze can make something quite interesting.
My local community college has an amazing ceramics program that allowed me to learn to throw and handbuild stoneware, do raku, and really emphasized making larger pieces. I made a lot of ware, really had to learn about finishing things, but I especially enjoyed how this one came out, which I named Emergence.
So excited about this project!
Thank you so much for setting up a place where we can all talk about it!