Oh ! Deer!
I decided to make some deer for the holidays this year. The deer are pinched and pulled from stoneware clay at my house on Beacon Hill. I bisque fire them at Alki Beach. I glazed them with paprika, Ohata Kaki, and tenmouku glazes and fired them to cone 10 at the
Kirkland Arts Center. Each deer is unique and is stylized in a general way to look deer-like. None are meant to represent a particular deer species.
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| mixed herd |
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| Paprika glazed with tenmouku glaze on horns and black underglaze on face and hooves |
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| Ohata Kaki glaze with Tenmouku over |
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| Antlers |
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| Mixed Herd |
Other attempts to make deer have been made, but this is the first time I've made a herd of 3 or more. It is always a challenge to make them, especially the horns. This is the first batch of ten. I have twenty more on the way to being fired. Special thanks to Pat Collyar, Wayne Pennington, and the KAC gas firing squad.
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