My pieces FINITO . . . .

 

So i then with my cone, full of foam , brought the lot back up to the ceramics studio where i got a hot glue gun and stuck serveral of my indivual glazed pieces onto the cone...

so these pieces are my finished work. i greatly enjoyed doing these pieces and this narrative project and also in getting to explore my native home place a bit more.. :D

filling my ice cream cone ....... SPLAT!

so once all my pieces were glazed and fired and were taken out of the kiln i then moved onto my CONE :) so i went down beside the ceramics department with elaine and there we started, and we took out the expandable installation foam and started filling my ceramic ice cream cone piece.. this took a few hours for it to dry and expand(which it did, about 10x its size :/) but it was fun :D

 firstly i tried out some smaller cones as a little experiment....

my other 3D sculptural pieces!!!

i started to experiment a bit with other materials and tried out pieces in wire, paper, mudrock etc.. so i built little pieces like, a cone, some shells, pieces of rope and seaweed...

ice cream escape!!!

once i had all my pieces ready after them coming out from the kiln i then decided to go and work on the cone again so i got a can of expanding foam and took myself off down to the raku area outside...there elaine assissted me with the foam into the cone , first an experimentation was carried out to see what way it was going to react, how much it expanded , etc. them we fill up the cone in the foam and gathered some of the fishing wire and stuffed it into the cone... i then came back after lunch and checked on it and it had expanded so much and over flowed onto the table, like an ice cream cone melting!!!!

my pieces after there transperant glaze firing

today i took my pieces out from the kiln after the glaze firing, they turned out...ok!!!

at the moment..

now.. at the moment im getting my last few firings done.. i took my head and my cone out of the kiln today so they're now ready and my beach material pieces have gone into the kiln to have the glaze on them to be fired.. on thursday i glazed these pieces by dipping them one by one into a white liquid glaze and then placed them on the shelf to be fired.....

Tasty inspirations ;)

there at the weekend my friend and i decided to go into town for a walk around and we ended up going to the shop getting jellies... once we came out from the shop we then decided to head down to the beach and sit down and take in the fresh air and have an aul chat, whilst eating our jellies... i then came a cross a lovely piece of TASTY INSPIRATION , this was a sweet made like an ice cream cone :) here i found it a good useful piece of research for my project.. it ties in well with my team of "the beach" and also having ice cream at the beach!!!

then when i was sitting there i started to take a few pics of the actually beach haha

lovely sunny day by the sea

my other bits and bobs :)

these pieces are just out from being bisque fired and i then glazed them... these represent small little ice cream cones... but my wafer broke at the bottom of it.. not going so good but i will try and do something about that once it is finished:)

these little pieces are whats going to be going into my ice-cream cone....

inside my cone

little bits that i made to put into my ice cream cone...

sickened

when my cone came out of the kiln it had cracked :( so hopefully now it will be ok

my heads process

starting off