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2013 AIR Exhibition Gallery Tour

By mattfiske on March 26, 2013April 1, 2013
Posted in: Celadon, Exhibition, Gallery, Ice crackle, kuan, mason stains, Matt Fiske, Porcelain, Soda Ash, soda fired, tenmoku glaze, tortoise shell, Tour
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Duke came down to remind me that all of my recent studio activity has been seriously cutting into Husky Time. According to him we need to get all this pottery business done with so we can get back out there dig stuff up and sniff around. This was my stern reminder. Before leaving me to finish photographing, he turned around and casually mentioned that we've got a real nice trash can in the kitchen... and it'd be a real shame if something 'happened' to it. You can help a Huskybro out by my checking out my web sale at www.mattfiske.com/shop The new work will be available until later this week when me and this doggo get back to rockhounding! . . . . #clay #glaze #pottery #ceramic #sitka #geology #science #ashglaze #kilnpeople #studio #craft #alaska #ak #ceramicglaze #ceramicaction #ceramics #pottersofinstagram #husky #materialscience #madeinalaska #glazetesting #testtiles #bluepotter #rocks #rockhound #contemporaryceramics
I now have 50 new pieces available for sale on my website this week! Some of them are local material glazes, and all of them were made and fired in my home studio in Sitka, Alaska! Www.mattfiske.com/shop My sale will run for 3 days until Thursday Dec 12, and then I'll ship this Friday so you can have it before Christmas! I'm also completing a few commissions in time for the holiday, and will be happy to consider taking on a few more custom pottery projects! Send me a message if you're interested. . . . . _____ #clay #glaze #pottery #ceramic #research #geology #science #ashglaze #kilnpeople #studio #craft #montana #material #ceramicglaze #ceramicaction #ceramics #pottersofinstagram #nerd #materialscience #reduction #glazetesting #testtiles #glazetests #rocks #rockhound #contemporaryceramics
I'll have about 40 pieces available for sale on my website this week! Most of them are local material glazes, and all of them were handmade in my very own Studio in Sitka Alaska. Www.mattfiske.com/shop The sale will go live tonight at Midnight Dec 9. It will run for 3 days until Thursday Dec 12, and then I'll pack and ship this Friday so you can have it before Christmas! I'm also completing a few commissions in time for the holiday, and will be happy to consider taking on a few more custom pottery projects! Send me a message if you're interested. Thanks! #clay #glaze #pottery #ceramic #research #geology #science #ashglaze #kilnpeople #studio #craft #montana #material #ceramicglaze #ceramicaction #ceramics #pottersofinstagram #nerd #materialscience #reduction #glazetesting #testtiles #glazetests #rocks #rockhound #contemporaryceramics
Always enjoy sharing the gospel of melted rock glazes. "Seriously? You just, like, dig stuff up and it does that?" It does! . . . . . #ceramics #art #sitka #ak
Felt really good to unload a kiln full of locally prospected glazes! I guess it's kinda like how tomatos from your own garden always taste better. Speaking of taste; I had 3 glaze flavors in this firing: 1. Mt. Edgecumbe volcanic ash (red to black). 2. 80/20 mix of Edgecumbe Ash and Sitka Spruce wood ash. (black). 3. Three part mix of Starrigaven River silt, Edgecumbe Ash, and Sitka Spruce wood ash. All fired in electric oxidation to cone 11. There are a few more materials on deck, and when the Christmas hustle slows down I'm looking forward to mixing some new line blends and developing some oilspots. The tiles are 4. Medvejie monzanite. 5. Halibut Point Beach sand. 6. Sitka Spruce Ash. 7. Harbor Mountain road cut clay. (8. Utah Lava Oilspot for comparison). These pots will all be headed to the GSAC Artisan's Market this weekend in Sitka. Most of the remaining pieces will be uploaded onto my website early next week for last minute holiday shopping. Stay tuned for more on that - still got one more kiln to fire! πŸ”₯ . . . . _____ #porcelain #glaze #pottery #ceramic #research #geology #science #sitka #kilnpeople #studio #craft #Alaska #material #ceramicglaze #ceramicaction #ceramics #pottersofinstagram #nerd #materialscience #firedinaskutt #glazetesting #lagunaclay #art #rocks #rockhound #contemporaryceramics #design #ak
Cooked up some new cone 6 glazes! Metallic Black, Sapphire Blue, Seattle Purple. Thought this combo of the 3 turned out pretty cool! . . . _________ #ceramics #porcelain #purple #glazetests #research #cone6 #keramik #glaze #bowl #tea #teabowl #550 #firedinaskutt #skutt #laguna #clay #pots inaction #kiln #fire #testing #ceramicglaze #art #potterywheel #glazed #oxidation #purplehaze #kilnfolk
Here's one with Mt. St. Helens ash! πŸ”₯πŸŒ‹πŸ”₯ It's a 5 part recipe: 20 Ash, 20 Frit 3134, 20 Grolleg, 20 Silica, 20 Dolomite. In the pictures: 1.Porcelain Bowl fired to cone 5 - 2. Porcelain tile fired to cone 7 - 3. Pine Lake Stoneware tile fired to cone 7 - 4. Porcelain tile fired to cone 5.
Manganese is the new Cobalt. Haha. Ok, maybe I can't back that up at all... but there have been some killer iridescent glazes (@lisazolandz) showing up in my feed lately! @ceramicmaterialsworkshop just posted a sweet tile with a manganese crystalline glaze today. They've got me thinking back to the scanning electron images I took back in grad school at Utah State. Here's one from my vault. It's a 5000x zoom in of a manganese crystal nucleus. Pretty wild, eh? If memory serves, this glaze was a variation of David Shaner's glaze, which was given to my by John Tilton. 68% Custer, 2% EPK, 27.5 Manganese Dioxide, 2.5% Granular Manganese. . . _________ #manganese #glazetests #research #art #ceramics #glaze #SEM #porcelain #microscope #clay #mn #kiln #crystal #firedinaskutt #testing #ceramicglaze #artistsofinstagram #science #element #ceramicart #crystalline #glazerecipe
Here's a few tiles where the glaze ran like crazy. Notice how the clay holder caught the glaze, and notice too, that it's still completely legible. A few people have asked me about the clay I use for this. It doesn't really matter. I'd say that wadding works best, but it's also expensive. I've never had a problem with using regular clay, but you gotta be careful to dry them out in the kiln (200Β° for an hour or so) before you rock and roll. πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ Also, if you're wondering, these are a few variations of some local Mt. Edgecumbe volcanic ash blended with spruce wood ash! Laguna Porcelain on the top, Seattle Pottery Supply Stoneware on the bottom. πŸŒ‹πŸŒ²πŸŒ‹πŸŒ²πŸŒ‹πŸŒ² . . . . _________ #process #glazetests #potters #research #cone10 #ceramics #glaze #tile #porcelain #redundancy #clay #wip #kiln #firedinaskutt #testing #ceramicglaze #art #potteryglaze #testing #pottersofinstagram #ashglaze #stoneware
Dipping tiles. Quite a while back I got real sick of chiseling out melted tiles from extruded tile holders. It was also a bummer losing information when a group slumped, shifted, and melted together. I also got tired of making, firing, storing, and lugging around bigger, more elaborate tiles. My solution is to make giant 18"x18" slabs and then cutting them into 2" x 1"x 1/4" units. This process makes about 150 tiles in one go, and after drying and firing, I can fit about 4-500 bisque tiles into a clay box. It also means I can keep lugging around thousands of finished glaze tests without taking up tons of studio space. The real trade off is that the glaze area is a bit small, and there's an added step of supporting the tile upright. That said, my last post detailed the benefits of "wadding" holders. There are great reasons for doing things differently, but this is specifically how my process has evolved since I mixed my first glaze almost 20 years ago. . . . . _________ #process #glazetests #research #cone6 #ceramics #glaze #tile #porcelain #redundancy #clay #wip #kiln #firedinaskutt #testing #ceramicglaze #art #potteryvideos

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