A couple of pictures from the show

So these are just some preliminary pictures from the gallery. Look for some higher quality shots on my website soon. There are still two Saturdays in the month to go and see the show if you haven't already. You can find the details in an earlier post.

More Art Show Preparation - Porcelain Cars

I just got these pieces out of the kiln. They are just black underglaze on porcelain. I am about to start a couple larger pieces which will take forever and I only have a couple of weeks. You do the math. These were pretty simple, here is the process:

Here is the unglazed porcelain car.

First I brush black underglaze into all of the cracks. I like to use Leslie Ceramic Supply's U-24 Basic Black. They also make U-9 Black which is a cool blueish black. The U-24 is a warm brownish black and it tends to flux (get shiny) less than the U-9 which is also a bonus in this case.

All the cracks, crevices etc filled with black underglaze.

Next I take a sponge and wipe off the excess underglaze leaving nice crisp lines.

Now for the laborious part, the background. I have collected lots of images to use which I organize and paste in a scrapbook. This page is all from an old french encyclopedia that had some great images. Landscapes tend to be pretty forgiving since people can't really tell whether you copied the image faithfully so I don't really worry that much about it. It still takes a bit of time even on so small an area. I also shaded the car somewhat at this stage.

And here is the result after firing.

I will post more pictures in the coming weeks. Check out the website for the gallery here: http://roscoeceramicgallery.com/

See my last post for the time and other particulars.

Fresh out of the kiln: A new glaze painting

Black underglaze on porcelain

(click on image for larger view)

This one turned out great. It's pretty darn small, only 3 1/4 by 4 1/4", but very detailed.

It's for this show that I have coming up in August. Here is the card:

It's a new gallery that Derik Van Beers just opened up. The back half is his studio and the front half is the gallery. It is very neat and tidy and looks great.
Here are the details:
Roscoe Ceramic Gallery
473 25th St., Suite D
Oakland, California
Gallery Hours Saturdays 11 am - 5 pm
415-515-3174

I also just got out these completed sculptures of dams. They were really smaller studies for large pieces but they came out really nice.

New Flat Ceramic Work

So I've been focussing on flat work recently for Art in a Box.
These are a couple of pieces from the last two months:


This is the one I just dropped off:


(Click on the images to see them large.)