Every December I like to take stock of the year that just passed. Normally I would read through my blog posts and remind myself of what I had done but this year there were not a lot of posts. I am not entirely sure why though. Perhaps I was busy, I …
Have you ever had a London fog? It’s a drink at Starbucks which is English Breakfast tea, steamed milk and vanilla syrup. At Balzac’s they offer a Parisian mist, which is essentially the same thing but with French Breakfast tea. Well I came up with my own I call “the …
I recently picked up two paintings at an online auction. Peter Clapham Sheppard was born in Toronto on October 21, 1881. He apprenticed at engraving houses such as at Rolph, Clark, Stone Ltd. in Toronto, where he became a highly skilled lithographer. He received his art training at the …
So I worked on another set of sample tiles. This time it was bronze, called Lamp’s Bronze. The recipe is pretty straightforward with nice results but I am having troubles with changing it. The base recipe is Lamp’s Bronze 7 – Ball Clay 86 – Cedar Heights Redart 7 – …
I am learning some very important life lessons since I started throwing pots. The most obvious to me is patience. Patience is everything in pottery. First in throwing. If you try to rush a piece and pull to hard your piece will end up lop-sided and uneven. Since “there is …
As I continue in my creation of my own glazes I look to other potters as a source of information. Matt Fiske’s Blog was one of the first sites I hooked into and in short order I read every post. I highly recommend you check it out. You can …
I have started making my own glazes. I found a great recipe called St. John’s black. Nepheline Syenite – 25 Alberta Slip/Albany – 75 Cobalt Carbonate – 5% But I wanted something more dense, so I tried working on the recipe by adding other materials. Going from left …
I have started making my own glazes. I found a great recipe called St. John’s black. Nepheline Syenite – 25 Alberta Slip/Albany – 75 Cobalt Carbonate – 5% But I wanted something more dense, so I tried working on the recipe by adding other materials. Going from left …
A critique on the pseudo health sciences? Great video though. De Staat – Witch Doctor (Official Video) from STUDIO SMACK on Vimeo. Oh little sicky, seems to be the pain? Got all these herbs don’t mean a fucking thing I am the witch, with the magick tricks Mistrust the white …
I don’t normally write about analytic implementations. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them, or that I am not interested. It’s more that this is my bread and butter. I have invested a lot of time and effort in creating solid solutions to problems like page naming strategies and I …