Photos of hand-cast bas relief projects

I've been working on some hand-cast, self-sculpted bas-relief tiles the past two weeks. I want to try to do some of my own molds and to do so I have to create my own work. So I decided to do bas-relief tiles, which are easy to create, fun, and can be done in decorator colors. The two horse-heads were sculpted in low-fire white clay, fired to cone 04 bisque, and then glazed a clear gloss.

The medallion at the bottom was cast in low-fire terracotta clay that had a small amount of native clay added to it, hence the rough texture. It was glazed with dilute translucent white glaze for the background and with dilute translucent blue glaze. These medallions were made for the school that I teach at, as end-of-year speciality awards. Mixing the clay from the school property made them unique and a keepsake for the students. I was pleasantly surprised that they all made it through the bisque firing without doing something like cracking or exploding LOL.