Fun with ceramics

Really enjoyed working with ceramics, and definitely intend on doing lots more, until they are good enough to use in my jewellery . For eg these carved ceramic
beads i would like to underglaze and glaze in pretty garden colours and maybe even add gold leaf to areas. To use as pendents or rings, could maybe set them in an organic way.











My first carved pot i underglazed with green and iron oxide, then glazed. For the second one i just iron oxide-ed it and then sanded it off in raised areas. prefer this look, its more natural.

I think i enjoyed the ceramics so much because it made me start to think about other options in my jewellery, because i like the idea that with carving you can create different depths/ layers on a single surface , things start to look a little more interactive rather than just flat.

I also like the idea that ceramic elements can be carved and then sand casted(primative casting). This is a sustainable form of casting and elements can be made into dies, allowing for intresting possibilitys.