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“Simulant” Exhibition
I’m honored to be showing work in the Long-Term Resident Artist Exhibition at @redlodgeclaycenter I’ve struggled in the studio this past year. I’ve followed dead-ends and opened kiln-loads of failures in a misguided attempt to make more marketable work. Burnt out, a few weeks ago I finally stopped and asked myself, “Why am I doing this?” Why has my […]
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The Grinding Room to the Rescue
Glazy has always had too few low-fire glaze recipes, but the amazing Alfred Grinding Room is fixing that! During her tenure at Alfred, Andrea Gill (@gillpottery) collected hundreds of recipes. These glazes were painstakingly tested and published by the Grinding Room team of @earlyamericanrobotpottery, @brookecashion, and @erinlynnsmith. Visit their website at http://www.alfredgrindingroom.com/ and follow their Instagram account, @the_grinding_room, for regular […]
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Iron Tianmu Glaze
This glaze was inspired by analyses of Song Dynasty dark iron glazes in Nigel Wood’s “Chinese Glazes”. I find this glaze superior to typical Tenmoku glazes like Leach Tenmoku due in part to the inclusion of magnesium. The minor additions of titania and manganese add to the depth. Rather than a slightly translucent dark brown […]
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Machine Learning for Artists course wrap-up
This is a small selection of the images, videos, and even 3d models created by students during the course. We had an AMAZING group of people. Even more important than the creation of digital artifacts were the lively discussions about our fears and hopes for machine learning and artificial intelligence, issues in ML/AI such as job displacement […]
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Visualizing Glaze Types
These heatmaps show concentrations of public glaze recipes in Glazy for various glaze types. Some types, like Shino, stand out, but maps for types like Celadon and even Tenmoku resemble that of Clear glazes. Indeed, many Celadon and Tenmoku recipes are simply clear glaze bases plus Iron. The map for the Matte type is predictably shifted towards the […]
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US Pigment Stains in Porcelain Clay Body
US Pigment Stains in Porcelain Clay Body https://glazy.org/posts/163796 Each of these tests was mixed with 100g porcelain clay body in amounts of +2%, +4%, +8%. The +8% was also mixed with black stain (Mason 6600, mixed about 25% black and 75% color).
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What is a vase?
50 million doodles have been released as a dataset, including 126,475 drawings of a “vase”. In this image I’ve stacked hundreds of “vase” doodles, revealing a common form. But what emerges is not the universal, Platonic ideal of a “vase”. Google’s analysis of doodle composites has shown that even for basic things like “chair” there are significant […]
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This Glaze Did Not Exist
The virtual is slowly seeping into the real. @pointyview and @gingerlukas have been posting some wonderful tests of glaze recipes generated by OpenAI’s machine learning software GPT-2. This is only the beginning!
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Machine Learning for Artists
Class full! Thanks so much everyone. Really excited to see what people create.
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Stylegan Dehua
A selection of machine-learning generated Dehua porcelain heads. StyleGAN2-ada-pytorch on Google Colab with single NVIDIA V100 GPU. Converted legacy network FFHQ 512×512 StyleGAN2 config f, then using 500 images of faces from dehua sculptures ran transfer learning for 200kimg (default augmentation, x-mirror).
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Recreating Ancient Glazes
Recreating Ancient Glazes using Glazy’s “Target & Solve” feature with analyses from Nigel Wood’s “Chinese Glazes”. In an earlier post I showed how you can quickly make a recipe from an analysis of an ancient glaze. Here are four examples of recipes I tested using this technique. 1. #121102 Koryo celadon glaze 3. This came out BEAUTIFUL on stoneware […]
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Basalt Glazes
I’ve just published 20 basic oxidation cone 6 basalt glazes which you can use as a guide for more interesting variations. (Link to recipes in bio.) For some inspiration, see Matt Fiske’s (@bluepotter) beautiful work with basalt on his website, https://ceramicaction.org
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30,401 Images and Counting
Just some of the photos uploaded this week! During the first couple years of Glazy’s existence, it would be exciting to see just one or two photos uploaded a week. Since then, the Glazy community has grown into an amazingly generous group of people from around the world, sharing over 30,000 photos! All these photos with […]
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Hope for 2021
Joseon Porcelain with gold lacquer repairs, National Museum of Asian Art. https://asia.si.edu/object/F1897.87/ #kintsugi #mend
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Visualizing Blend Types
Tests using traditional line, triaxial, and biaxial blends can teach us a lot about ceramic chemistry. But sometimes they feel limiting. What other possibilities are there? Arranging a series of line blends into a “complete graph” might be illuminating. And instead of a flat biaxial, what about a three-dimensional pyramid/tetrahedron? What if blends went 3d? I’d love to hear the #glazenerd army’s […]
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SiC Additions to Clay Bodies
A simple blend test adding Silicon Carbide (SiC) to a clay body. Wanted to see if I could induce reduction effects in an oxidized electric kiln environment.
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The Internet Runs Through It
120Mbps somewhere in the middle of Montana. And this is only the beta. Maybe it’s time to become a mountain potter. I was going to do a write up, but there’s not much to write about. You literally just take it out of the box, plug it in, and suddenly you have incredible internet. #starlink
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100,000
Some say 100,000 is too many, but we say it’s too few. Milestone reached on 21 October 2020.
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Plaster Calculator Update
I’ve just updated the Plaster Calculator with a slightly improved UI and clearer ability to change units. I’m also recommending that people use @earlyamericanrobotpottery‘s formula, so I’ve listed it first. In my experience, Keith’s formula is both simple and accurate. Tip of the Day: You can add links to Glazy and Plaster Calculator directly on your phone’s home screen! […]
