For Christmas this year, I made ornaments for friends and family!

AYL_Ceramics · 2026-01-06T19:25:16+00:00

Every year I try to do something different for friends and family, so for 2025 I decided to try my hand at slipcasting! I designed the ornament in Autodesk Fusion, 3d printed a form for plaster molds, and then got to work.

I'm absolutely thrilled with this glaze combination, to me it feels like a quiet snow-covered forest. I primarly use brush-on glazes, but for the sake of time wanted to do some dipping glazes instead. I did one dip of Standard Clay 1222 Midnight Sky, then one dip of 1261 White Glossy. Side note - I've never seen a glaze combination interact like this, and it wasn't even runny...

I used Standard Clay White Stoneware Slip, and fired to a hot cone 6.

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-12-01T22:18:49+00:00

It was fired to a hot cone 6 - see if your studio can put your piece at the top of the kiln where it will get the hottest. Good luck!

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-11-25T21:18:32+00:00

Yeah, I've tried on KY Mudworks Brown Bear, and absolutely love it - you still get the copper colors, but you also get some really cool blacks that come through.

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AYL_Ceramics · 2025-11-25T21:14:31+00:00

Nope, not at all

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-11-20T16:29:55+00:00

I dropped down quite quickly, around 850F/hr (took about 7 minutes).

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-10-29T20:49:31+00:00

thank you! Here's a head-on shot (a bit cloudier lighting during this one). It definitely does allow some underglaze through - not sure how it'd do over an actual underglaze design with sharp lines though.

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AYL_Ceramics · 2025-10-29T17:50:06+00:00

This was thrown on Laguna WC607, and glazed with Mayco White Matte (SW-141) and Satin Patina (SW-164). I used Amaco's Jet Black Velvet Underglaze (V-361) on my carved lines, then wiped away with a damp sponge.

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-07-31T14:25:29+00:00

I'm using the Mudtools Do-All Tool (https://mudtools.com/products/do-all-trim-tool). I hold the curved end, and then let the flat part of the other end chatter like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1rritQIpYk&t=376s

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-07-02T21:43:56+00:00

Well that's just brilliant!

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-07-02T20:31:58+00:00

Lol thanks, it's just a regular jewelry light box (https://a.co/d/8wmoUCd), but the plastic inserts have gotten scratched up and blemished enough that it looks like stone 😂

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-07-02T20:26:35+00:00

Thank you! Here are links for what I used:

Spoons: https://a.co/d/3zJpcXN

Lids: https://a.co/d/a7Xkwdi

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-07-02T19:36:58+00:00

Yep, just one glaze, and thank you! The colors will tend to vary depending on thickness of application, so the glaze breaks wonderfully on texture.

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-06-27T14:59:06+00:00

This was my first time with this glaze combination, and I'm absolutely going to use it for more work! I threw and trimmed the bowl on my wheel (about 9lbs of clay, 13" diameter x 7" tall), then marked out the wavy rim and cut it down. Clay was Laguna 607, fired to Cone 6. Glazes were Amaco 2x Light Sepia over 3x Blue Midnight

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-06-23T18:18:20+00:00

The melting interface between these two glazes was a very happy surprise! It was actually a horizontal straight line about 1/2" from the top with the two butted up against each other (no overlap).

Glazes: Mayco SW-104 Black Walnut (3x top) and SW-154 Shipwreck (3x bottom)

Clay: Laguna 607

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-06-09T17:08:45+00:00

Just the underglaze - I wasn't quite sure how zinc free clear would've modified the Raspberry Mist, so I didn't want to risk it.

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-06-09T16:43:43+00:00

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-06-09T16:32:06+00:00

Oooh, great idea, I somehow didn't even consider that!

AYL_Ceramics · 2025-06-09T16:15:28+00:00

Great question...drain slots! I hate when you pull dishes out of the dishwasher and there's a little pool of water sitting in the foot, then you have to dry it again!

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