week 44 - My first ceramics commission!!

While over at a friends house last week, I met a nice lady and got talking to her about my artwork and ceramics. She was very interested in the set of letters that I said I had made for Paul last year for Xmas.

This week she contacted me by email and asked me to make the letters for three names: Fred, Buddy and Layla. And viola, just like that, I had my first ceramics commission!!

Cutting out the letters - this takes time and patience. You have to wait until just the right moment to get the letters out of the plastic cutters. If the clay is too wet, the don't hold their shape, too dry and they break.


My herb container is glazed and ready for firing - The glaze I chose is white, so it matches the other ones I made earlier this year.


For the second planter, I had to do some test tiles to double check the colours. I am going for butter yellow and blue in order to coordinate with the kitchen colours of the lucky recipient!
Of course their are never test tiles for the two glazes you want, so I did some tests.