Rachael McCallum's Unicorn Spew,

Rachael McCallum's UnicornSpew ~The online journal of Artness as-it-happens.


Friday 7 December 2012

Ogre tissues

What would a pile of ogre snot Look like ?
Who knows....
It could look like this

Babies in a blender

This was/is a stack of  rejected thrown bowls and cups that I sliced a quarter off to keep. I painted glaze faces on with an untested black glaze but it became mucked up so I just mixed it all together and made it areas of pattern and non pattern. I called it babies because they are things made by someone, like children, but rejected in a disposable way , disposable like passing joke or comments about awful kids. But mash it all together and it is a black mass of insult... I'm  not sure if I explained that right but you can always ask :-)

How excellent are the white spots in the blue glaze !?! I love this technique now...

Vaulkos chair

This chair was a treat I made myself because I had figured out what firing temperatures I preferred, one day I will put the top on like a mushroom and glaze it all together.... not yet. It's beautiful now. I don't want to spoil it until I'm bored with it :-)
There is a light blue run which I painted and it was a baby blue day glaze but at stonework it has created micro crystal surface and it's all sparkly and gorgeous :-)  it's like putting subtle glitter on a polished turd. So awesome

Persian spew

This piece is so gorgeous when you get your face right up close, there are do many fascinating aspects to it.
It was a earthenware dry glaze painting layers of slip, dry glaze, then clear.... I didn't know what to paint and so I was doing just lines in reaction the the confines of the frame... so the composition was very boring .... until I made a pool of lead glass magic!!!

Petey the unicorn had eaten a blue sky and  some dirt earlier that morning and when he ate too much, he left this little treat on a tray

No, but that's a funny idea.

I truly look forward to making more paintingsin this method with dry glaze pools and just letting it all go !

I can't wait for next year :-)

This piece became a "Persian" blue colour and after much deliberation I Hadz to name it after the colour it was !
it is Completely not intended to be offensive, I didn't even realize it might not be liked instantly until some visitors were put off by it. Well they hadn't seen Babies in a Blender yet...