I'm just an artist trying to find peace in the world. A Buffalonian living in the Oregon wilderness. A Mom of 2. Overly educated, but not in Art. Crafting professionally since 2005. I am always learning.
I'm currently a tie dye artist, and in the past I've been a fiber artist, from spinning yarn to sewing to pleated silk scarves and focused on dyeing and color theory. I have also been a jewelry artist, from chainmaille to polymer clay to electroformed copper to epoxy resin. I love to cook gourmet food.
I have explored clay a few times in my life, but this time, I bought a kiln and started making videos! I love handbuilding and do not throw often on the wheel. I collect vintage slipcasting molds and I taught myself the process of creating with liquid clay.
Follow my journey as I explore cone 6 stoneware, inventing it as i go and learning from the internet. Combining the skills i learned from my mixed media past, experimenting like crazy, and making videos.
That's a CLASSIC mold! Everyone loves those trees! I have never tried slip casting. I would like to try making the mold. Maybe next year. No time now. Thanks for sharing, Amanda!
Hi Ellen, thanks for watching! I know I'm going to be slow so I'm skipping right to the holiday trees 😉 I am trying to think of more videos I can make in the short amounts of time I have. 🌲😆
@@RedEftDesigns oh oeps!😬 I have I think 50 vases, pumpkins, skull mug, and some I did not even see yet. And also mother molds. Which I still have to make real molds of.. but you know, time and much nicer things to do🤪
@Ellen.s.atelier I bought most of my molds individually so I chose them all, but if you accept a big lot of them they are kind of like mystery molds! I try to get functional ware mostly, and nothing too cutesy! I like making my figurines by hand too
@@RedEftDesigns oh that is Nice to hear that your baby is fun! I have two girls, 15 and 18 now, love them💕 curious to see what comes out of the kiln! I am also making lots of stuff for my kiln, so hopefully it Will dry fast so I can put it in! I also share kiln openings if you want to Watch☺️
OH my goodness woman! Greetings from upper Northern California!! I just found you! I'm a brand new newbie to all things clay ❤ I enjoy watching videos on building but I am so close to having enough for my first full load in my small kiln 🤞🏼 so I am just now starting to peek at some kiln openings! Happy I found your's 🙏🏼😊 my FAVORITE is the little Skunk Box !! And then your waterpipe vase! Because PUURRRPLLLE ! I'm gonna have to make one that is similar cuz my daughter in law will love love LOVE it!! Good luck with your delivery of your precious gift 🍼 🤱🏼👶🏼 hope you give us an update 🤞🏼💕 I'll go binge your videos now 😉😂
I watch a TON of pottery/ceramics videos and I rate your creativity and glazes at the top! Please keep making videos! Would love to see some process videos as well 🤩 In one or more of these you have shown what you call a “barrel” mug that is slip cast. Do you happen to know where I can find such a mold?
Thank you so much! I plan to make process videos at some point but life always gets in the way! The barrel mold was a vintage one, I got it on ebay but the availability of any mold is so based on just what people are selling at the moment, so I can only say to keep your eye open on there. If I ever see any I will let you know. But it is kind of tiny, especially the handle part, and hard to hold. There are some great molds on etsy though, good shapes and easy to pour. Shipping for a mold is usually 30-60 so that's the main expense since they are so heavy. Hope this helps!
Thanks Kathy! From a leatherhard coil I used a scalpel to facet the sides into 6 and the tip into a point ( also 6). Then connected them to a base and sprinkled a few scrap pieces from the scalpel faceting around the base. I plan to do a video of it someday soon!
Awesome unload Amanda. My favourite was the skunk box. Adorable! Also the purple haze vase was yummy! Congratulations on your upcoming arrival. You will be pretty busy for the next while!
Yea, OK. But an area that is larger than what a full brush can cover. feather ing like with laquer, polyurethane and varnish does not seem to work.@@RedEftDesigns
Hey Amanda, fun opening! Love the frogs! Love the baby bump photobomb! I adore that 'ocean' pitcher! Can I ask, did the storm go all over first, THEN Seaweed, Oatmeal and snow? Love the Aurora pitcher, too. I like what you did with the Purple Haze piece. Lots in this one! Wishing you all the best with the birth of your baby! ✌️
Hi Audrey! Yes, the storm is all over in& out. Then seaweed top third, then oatmeal over the seaweed on the rim. But a space between where the seaweed ended and the line of snow was. The snow I have is verrrry thick so I just globbed it on with my finger. The seawwed/oatmeal ran and was kinda stopped by the snow. Thank you! It's less than a week now! So excited!
Yaaay! Sooo excited!! Omg how funny you said that the little teapot could be used as a Netty pot!! That’s exactly what I use mine for!! Lol Pottery to the people did a really great series on making colored pieces on clay. I think she called it speckles. But very similiar to the old forge videos. That mirror is sooo cool!! My favorites are the tea pots and the agate bowl!! The bowl is just amazing!! And I love the vase piece as well. Sorry it ran soo much. Congratulations on the new baby! I pray your labor and delivery go awesome!
Wow Amanda I’m speechless!😍 How can I choose one? They are all great! The agate bowl and your bottles with the purple glaze are gorgeous. They remind me of handblown glass. Every time I watch your kiln unloading, I end up buying more glazes, lol! I’m in the process of testing celadon bloom to make a sea turtle mug and the test you’ve done helps me. Thank you and best wishes with the new baby!🫶🏻
Wow just wow! I’m soooo glad lisa finkle put me on to u! I thought I pushed the glazes in my unloads! Wow u have inspired me to push even further! I’m a pink girl n love the shell at the end. I love the scale vase too. I’ve done lots of peacock bowls with the w’s of light flux but can u explain the scales application pls? I love the effect! 2 days of binging yr unloads I’m all caught up lol. Nat @ mud magic xx
Hi Nat! Sorry i didn't see your comment sooner! Its the same thing on the peacock bowls, scales or W's or U's or whatever you want to call them! Mine are rounded on the bottom so i think they look like fish scales i suppose! Thanks for watching, i love tuning in for yours as well! So many glaze combos to try, right?!? ☮️amanda
Such beautiful ideas of pots and glazes. I want to try them all. These are so beautiful! You did capture the beautiful leaves with the legged green bowl.
Nice! I love that Text Turq with the runny glazes over a lot! And love the iron yellow, luster and ancient jasper combo, gorgeous...great kiln opening :)
Yes! Will have to try the combo on a mug next...it didnt drip as much as i thought it would but maybe the shape of the bottle prevented it? An unexpected combo for sure, & thank you 🩵
Thanks Audrey! I love the combo i have done it at least 3 times and it always looks so good! Iron yellow/iron lustre/ W's of Ancient Jasper and dots of Running Hot Chowder 👌
Wow! Absolutely beautiful pots!! Great glaze combos! When you press leaves in the clay try to cut the stem off as much as possible but place an extra chunk of clay on the back where the stem will be before pressing it in. Hope that helps. Absolutely LOVE THE SHELLS!!
I just love shells too! & Thanks for the tip! Michele I came across your pinterest glaze combo board the other day and was loving it! So many good picks ❤ so many ideas 💥
Thank you so much Amanda for sharing your glaze results! I’m so glad you showed the Stroke and Coat peacock technique. I loved the two colors together and must get them!😅❤️
I'm so happy to share results with everyone! That combo turned out so well. Next time i might just do it all the way to the top, as i didn't like how much the peacock blue broke over the rim. I think Stroke and coats have so much interesting possibilities in combo with other things. 💜🩵
"This is my first instructional ceramics video, let me know if you like the format! You asked for it..... Great video. well edited. Some more zoom maybe. You have great hands. Those are nice. Many do not show the finished glazed end product. That always dissapoints me.
That's definitely a video i have been meaning to make for awhile. The short version is a leatherhard coil, cut with a scalpel 6 times vertically around the coil, and another 6 times around the tip. Repeat for each crystal. Hope this helps in the meantime!💎
@@cpnotill9264 yes! Try it! Some people only do 4 cuts, see essarai ceramics on insta, but i like to do 6 as I feel that is the most realistic to real quartz which always has 6 facets!
A lot of the dripping glazes look like someone simply did not follow directions. Yours are very striking. I do not know how you apply to control the flowing distances but you seem to have it mastered. I am just hand building and using non dripping glazes from Amaco. I do look at a lot of youtube to learn though. Thank you for taking the time to put your items here for us to admire.
Thanks for the compliments! I suppose i should make a live glazing video someday. Its a combination of testing/observation but also of knowing how each glaze is going to react with others...i take a LOT of notes on combos i see online. It may be also that I'm doing thick layers but only firing to cone5. Handbuilding is the best! I do that, and some slipcasting but no wheel work.
Thanks! I know, that copper jade is so 🤢 on its own, right? I saw the combo on facebook and had to try it. I will do more layers next time, and i think it likes it hot so maybe would do better at 6 than 5.
I love the copper jade and have such good luck with it especially over chattering and I do fire that C Jade at cone 6.. That with the flux can be striking. Your kiln unload Amanda is soooo good! I love your combo's and testing which gives me ideas, thanks again for sharing.
