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I have a weakness for spoons. I think I inherited that from my grandmother who always bought spoons as souvenirs when she went on her travels around the world. Boxes upon boxes of little silver, wood or porcelain spoons. Some simple, others decidedly baroque. From Mexico to Russia.
When I went to Mitsy’s Craft party [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ceramics'
Little spoons
July 29th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Ceramics
Cups that need to go to the kiln…
June 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Ceramics
Cups that need to go to the kiln…, originally uploaded by Marian Florcita.
Menacing title… they need to get a good rosting at 1200C. The tray was made with reclaimed wood and twigs by Mr Husband (who thinks putting the Florcita stamp all over the place is really cute…).
I need a kiln!!!! which will come as [...]
besides textile work…
May 26th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Ceramics
…Hand painted tiles…
The weather hasn’t helped much. Too humid or too warm. THe tiles need to dry for a while untouched so it’s a slow process… but the result is so colorfull and bright!
these are samples…
…azulejos pintados a mano…
El clima no ha ayudado mucho. Mucha humedad o mucho calor. Los azulejos necesitan secarse sin [...]
cups
May 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Ceramics
cups, originally uploaded by Marian Florcita.
And it’s time to get the clay out again… so many ideas… so little time!
Little birds
April 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Ceramics
I have been asked to draw some little birds for posters and diplomas which will be used at an Ornithology Congress in June. Some time ago I drew a series of 13 tiles, which I hand painted in very vibrant colours, and now those are sort of the basic inspiration for these new birds.
Those tiles [...]
Tags:birds·colors·drawing·hand drawn·hand painted·sketches·tiles
Ceramic tags
September 4th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Ceramics
Production has been stopped for a few days as we juggle with the baking, the new windows for the house and a sewer problem… just because stress comes in three fold, right?
Just out of the oven are these ceramic tags in terracota and black clay. They go with each package that comes out of Florcita’s [...]
macondo en ceramica
September 2nd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Ceramics
macondo en ceramica Originally uploaded by Marian Florcita
Do you remember this post where I was making a sort of recap of the different versions of my interpretation of Macondo -the mytical town in Garcia Marquez “One Hundread years of Solitude”? Handfelted, drawn? Well, this is the ceramic version… what do you think?It [...]
sweat shop?
August 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Ceramics, Felt, Fibre Art
…pffffffffff…it’s warm…. warm…warm. See how one complains about how cold it is, rainy and gray? and now it’s 37C, sunny and…. all around sticky… and one still complains!Anyway, hot or not I had to work on some orders. Someone asked me if I could show how flat the seed bags can be folded, so here [...]
Tags:ceramic cups·hand bag·photos·seed hand bags·summer·warm weather·whimsical
Whimsycal Ceramic bottles
July 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Ceramics
Whimsycal Ceramic bottlesOriginally uploaded by Marian Florcita
Unfortunately the ceramics studio where I go every week, is closing down. So we are all trying really hard to use up all rests of clay that we have with us so we can fire them up. I still have kilos left so I don’t think I will [...]
