I am pretty sure that I am very close to finding a way of making my ideas real. Just have to test few more things :) Here are some of my latest tests: Can't wait to see them fired :)

In the meantime I started to work with fiber-clay made of the casting slip- and this one is even stronger and looks more promising :) First I have prepared the porcelain casting slip which wasn't that hard as I thought it will be. There are just few simply steps to do it: 1. Get a bucket (big one) and put 2l of water 2. Dissolve 26g of dispect in 600ml of HOT water then add to the bucket  3. Cut porcelain in small pieces and put them into the water so they are well covered 4. When you have about 1/4 of a porcelain bag already in the bucket start mixing everything with the big blender :)  5. Add more porcelain to the mixture slowly until it will become nice and smooth. I have mixed the casting slip with nylon fiber ( 1l+ 20g) and then dried it on the plaster bat.                        Simple archers are collapsing a bit but I hope to learn how to con...

It was a long time since my last entry and lots of things happened. I have the results of the firing of the thrown pieces :  I am happy with the results. They are a bit too chunky but as I told you before I have very little of throwing skills. I got few ideas from this pieces - I think they will be a great wall pieces. I also started to think about simplifying my design and maybe concentrate more on joined arches rather then trying to build bigger structures with them. If I will be able to find out how to make nice 'waves' it will be easier to take it from there and think bigger :) Together with my thrown pieces I have fired similar forms made of paper-clay and fiber- clay. The paper-clay didn't work at all - it went flat as a pancake.... but!  Surprisingly the fiber-clay worked quite well :)                                      ...