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| Start with cut offs from yesterday's poppies. |
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| Kneed cut-offs into new clay. |
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| Kneeding |
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| Recycled clay, ready to use. |
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| Roll the clay into a slab on the canvas work table. |
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| Smooth and compress the clay with a metal rib. |
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| Cut out two poppy halves from the slab. |
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| Remove the extra clay and save for more poppies. |
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| Score and slip. |
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| Join the tops and bottoms. |
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| Shape the flat clay into poppies. |
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| Dry the poppies slowly for a few days. |
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| Poppies after a 10 hour bisque firing, waiting to be glazed. |
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| Glazed poppies waiting at the kiln for firing. |
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| Our cats sitting around the hot kiln during the 12 hour glaze firing. |
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| Open the kiln after a 24 hour cool down. |
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| Finished poppies on their metal stems |
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| Poppies around Walter Allward 's plaster models from the Vimy Ridge Memorial. They are at the Military Communications and Electronics Museum in Kingston, Ontario. |
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| Poppies in the garden at Eastminster United Church in Belleville, Ontario. They are part of a Remembrance Day ceremony sanctioned by the Royal Canadian Legion. 10% of each poppy sold goes to the Belleville Poppy Fund. |
