Mieke's finished piece.

Not very clear, sorry it's better in the real! 

Here is my second completed alphabet. Tiles mounted on a piece of white washed pine.
A big thank you to Fiona for keeping it all together and having the courage to do another year, looking forward to see all the new ideas.

The last 5 from Mieke.

The final 5.

V-Vanilla

W-Watermelon

X-Xiqua (An edible fruit that looks similar to a watermelon, only shorter in size. The word xigua is Chinese.
Y-yellow berry (an alpine or sub-Arctic species of Rubus, known for its amber-colored edible fruit.
Z-zucchini (oops forgot 1c)

NOVEMBER from Mieke.

Quince-Rambutan-Oops...Stawberry-Tomato-Ugly fruit.

Mieke's October 4.

The next four, and I keep going with the fruit theme, The colours on these four didn't come out as bright I think I put the top glaze on a bit to thick.Hopefully the next lot will be better.

SEPTEMBER 4 FROM MIEKE.

I- Iceberg lettuce.

J-jujube.

K-kiwifruit.

L-lemon.

Mieke van Sambeeck.

Finished the first 8 at last.

JULY..

Apple-Banana-Cherry-Date.

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AUGUST.

Egg fruit-Fig-Grapes-Hot chillies.

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MIEKE, A B C NUMBER 2

At first I wanted to make the second alphabet totally different. and thought of using photographs. But in the end I stuck with clay again. Although I will still use photo's as a reference.

So here we go first my photo's of the fruit.

Here are my little tiles still in the green ware stage, I will use stoneware clay this time for all my tiles to give it a better unity.

 I have applied the underglaze colours which hopefully come out a bit brighter wen fired and glazed.

But from experience my hopes are high!

It will be a challenge as well to find all the fruits I need and will use vegetables if needed.

Mieke's finished alphabeth.

The finished first alphabet, it turned out different then I anticipated, axially TOTALLY different! But I am happy with it. And now on to number two! Still trying to work out how to,..... will I stick to clay or something else? Better get my act together and start on it.

THE FINAL FOUR FROM MIEKE.

I had to cheat a bit because I totally forgot the M….for me a very important letter so I don’t know what happened. It is therefore not glazed but PAINTED looks totally different to me so I will replace it with a proper one at a later time.

M-Painted

Y-Glazed and glass

G-Slip and glazed

P-Underglaze and clear glaze.

LATE!

Here we are with the next 5.

S-looks a bit messy to me! The red is a glaze and for the yellow I put small pieces of glass around the letter but they ran out a bit to far.

F- is glass slumping.

L-Letter in turquoise glaze with a white dry glaze.

J- terracotta clay with letter in white clay then  a blue glaze al over.

U-white clay, letter in a twisted coil on top with an iron oxide wiped of, background yellow underglaze with clear glaze on top.

Pffffffff......a lot of different techniques for such little pieces (but fun anyway)

April letters from Mieke.

Five this time, I was a bit to fast making the photo and totaly forgot to put them in order!

K- stoneware clay,Twisted clay for the letter in an oxide wash,    
      background, underglaze with a clear glaze over the top.
N- b.r.t. clay, letter in an crawl glaze, background is a bead glaze.
C- slumped glass
R- b.r.t. clay, letter squeezed clay, glazed in a green glaze.
H- stoneware clay,Twisted clay for the letter in oxide wash,   
      background, underglaze with a clear glaze over the top.

The next 4 from Mieke.

The four for march,

W-Terracotta clay, white stoneware clay letter with a green glaze.
Z- Slumped glass
E- B.R.T. clay, with a crawl glaze.
T-B.R.T. clay letter in a crawl glaze, outside is a crystal glaze.

By doing this first alphabet, my mind is working on the next one, what to do?? what to use? So many possibilities, it just makes ME curious at how it will look like!

The 4 for February.

B- terracotta clay with the letter squeezed on in white stoneware slip, glazed in a blue earthenware glaze.
D- terracotta clay, background stamped with a skewer, painted with white slip. Letter glazed in red.

Q- slumped glass
X-brt clay, glazed with a matt glaze.

My first 4.

And here is my result for the first month.
A-V-I-O. White stoneware clay imprinted with different object.
Glazed with a matt glaze using 2 different glazes and overlap them to get more colours.

HOT, HOT, HOT....

As you all know I'm working in clay, a slow progress, compared to some of you working in other media.

So it takes me a little longer to get my letters ready I started a few weeks ago and decided to use different clay every month.

For January I have chosen white stoneware, printed pattern and glaze them after they have been bisque fired.And  do 4 letters at the same time a wee bit of cheating!

 This is the first stage not fired yet.

At the moment my letters are really, really HOT!!

As you can see through the peephole of my kiln.

Always exiting to open the kiln and see how everything is the way I intended to.

I just have to wait till tomorrow!