Take your nickname and how does it relate to the invoice?

Paradoxically, it's not about the nickname or taking. It's just a game of syllables. Although I won't hide the fact that someone has really messed up my life. I mean a lot here, but I'll just mention the loss of the old, several-year-old Edi Malcer fb page. (You can still drop by, but on the new personal page...the new Edi Malcer and additionally Edi Malcer Art.

Luckily Malceramika.Art on fb survived and I can share blog entries (with a link to wix) but not the website www.malceramika.art itself, although in a somewhat difficult form :/

Returning to Bierz nick. Obviously, there is no consent to this, but as I clicked earlier, it is only a play on syllables that was created to tell about the tread in the toczynki :)

The complement is an invoice, which has nothing to do with payments :) Although invoicing is an everyday occurrence when you run a business.

So what will it be about, well, about cracks resembling the tread of car tires. Perhaps the association flowed through his son and his studio of metal innovations, new constructions and instant miracles, @JakMal, who for some time also dealt with cars and now also welds wonderful Raku tongs, stands for stoves and burners for you. If someone wanted a pedestal for a sculpture, he will probably do that, he works with the sculptor Bronek on an ongoing basis.

Cracks.

A popular technique, spectacular and delightful with its unique structure.

There are several ways. One of them is to roll a straight cylinder or other form on a wheel, while maintaining the thickness of the walls, which will be useful in the next step. As you can see in the photo below. It is worth taking care of the edge of the vessel so that it is properly profiled.

It is worth wiping the wheel. I will add that I like to work with this technique without pads on the wheel , but you can also use them if you like. It is worth taking care that the wheel is clean and clean after the technique using glass, i.e. wash it immediately.

The second step is water glass . I haven't experienced pasting videos here yet, but soon I will be able to brag about it to show more precisely how I apply them. Participants of our plein airs experience this at every workshop, including individual classes on wheel rolling.

I'm rambling. And here's the question: where does this glass come from and what for ? You can buy it at a paint or construction store. Technically: I pour a little into a container, dip the brush and slowly rotate the circle and apply it to the skull, just like in the photo above. It will run a bit, so you need to balance the amount of glass so that it doesn't smudge the brush too much.

Burner . A spectacular companion to the technique. A regular burner, with a cartridge that you can even buy on the market. When you put glass on the skull, you dry the top layer (i.e. the glass with the clay surface). Attention, the clay heats up, which can be seen through evaporation and touch... hot :)

Now it's almost over. Time for the pleasure of invoicing :) admiring the emerging structure on the skull :)

Gently and calmly push the skull out from the inside with your hand or, for example, a wet stick.

From the outside you leave the clay to observation and its own fate. The surface cracks creating cracks resembling dried earth and meanders.

Ceramics is not mathematics.

Something can always go differently than you expect, and that's fascinating. But certain aspects can be avoided. What can happen, the work can simply crack and there will be... a decorative crack :) the bulge can also not be symmetrical, which can be caused by the belly being pushed out too quickly (also a cause of crack) or improper centering of the dumpling (centering is a challenge as workshop owners say ;) )

And the color? The color will come later :)