Starting Fall Semester: Kiln Casting

Design: Glass sliver in the middle of the ceramic bottle so you're able to see through it

Sketches of bottles meant for olive oil. My plan is to throw the ceramic bottle and cut out shapes for the glass to fit into. The glass will serve as a "window" to see the liquid inside the bottle.

Thrown vessels with cut outs.

Glass will replace the cut outs

I will make molds of each of the cut out pieces, in order to cast glass into. Then, I will fit the glass into the ceramic vessel.

The vessels have been bisqued and glazed to cone 6.

I have created and tested several cone 6 glazes in order to get a cone 10 atmospheric effect, without having to use a fuel burning kiln, in order to preserve elements and electricity.

"Cone" is a measurement of temperature over time or "heat-work". A cone is placed in the kiln during any type of firing, bisque or glaze, in order to regulate the proper amount of heat and energy. Instead of using a gas kiln and firing to cone 10 at a temperature of 2381 degrees F, I am trying to achieve the same cone 10 effects while firing to cone 6 in an electric kiln, at a temperature of 2232 degrees F.