{"id":3230,"date":"2018-01-26T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/?page_id=3230"},"modified":"2018-02-03T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T18:05:03","slug":"aboutmywork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/aboutmywork\/","title":{"rendered":"About My Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

My clay work ranges from functional tableware to decorative sculpture and wall art. I hand build every piece, then sculpt or carve surface designs \u2013 always working freehand so that each piece is one-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n

MY PROCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Form<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"From the smallest of tiles to the largest of vases, each of my pieces is hand-built. Depending on the shape I’m after (or the mood I’m in) I may work with slabs, coils, pinching or any combination of techniques to form or build up a shape.\"\"<\/p>\n

Plates and platters I may form against a mold so that there is some consistency in size and shape between pieces that might stay together as a set. Many larger vessels are completely free-form, yielding shapes never to be exactly repeated. When it comes to sculptural forms, anything could happen…\"\"<\/p>\n

Surface Design
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\"\"Once a piece has dried enough to hold its shape but is still soft, I either sculpt or carve in colored underglazes to create a surface design. \"\"<\/p>\n

Occasionally, I’ll coat the entire surface of a piece in one underglaze color, then carve away to expose my design. Often I’ll build a design using several colors – applying one color, carving to get the detail I want, then applying the next color, and so on…\"\"<\/p>\n

Glazing<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Purely decorative pieces I sometimes finish without any glaze at all – I might paint some background color into the design, but it can be nice to see the texture of the raw clay in a piece that won’t need frequent cleaning or be used to serve food. All functional work is finished with a food-safe glaze.<\/p>\n

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My clay work ranges from functional tableware to decorative sculpture and wall art. I hand build every piece, then sculpt or carve surface designs \u2013 always working freehand so that each piece is one-of-a-kind. MY PROCESS Form From the smallest of tiles to the largest of vases, each of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9B564-Q6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3230\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogsongdesigns.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}