2016-07-24 - Sunday - New pots (ikr?)

Sunday I threw more garlic and other textured pots in raku clay. I have some ideas I want to try with the glazing on these.

Life is an experiment.

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2015-01-03 - Saturday - It's Alive!

Remember those rather simple pots I made on 12/30? This is the reason I was keeping them simple. Today I cut them and combined them using one textured and one smooth piece. It wasn't as easy as I'd hoped it would be, but I have a lot of new ideas for this process. Stay tuned.

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August 22 - Wednesday textured pots

Wednesday I made two textured pots at Clayworks.  I will be glazing them with shino and decorating them heavily.  I'm looking forward to it.

On the way home I stopped at the supermarket for some milk.  When I came back to the car I noticed the footprints I left on the way into the store.  My crocs pick up a lot of clay dust at the studio and I always leave footprints.

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2010-01-26 Tuesday - Empty Bowls and more pots

The bowls I made for the Empty Bowls event came out of the glaze kiln and I like some of the combos I used.  Look for some of these on future pots.  You can check out the whole batch here.

After documenting the glazes, I got to work on some new pots.  I made another heavily textured pot using phoenix (the last one was orangestone) and tried some shapes for a soup bowl with a mug handle that someone asked me for.  I also made another casserole with a (hopefully) less-domed lid than the last one.

I left the other pots out to dry a bit so it looks like I have a table full of work, but some of it was from the weekend.  My shelf is bowing under the weight of all my pots and reclaimed clay buckets and since I am on the top shelf, people below me are understandably nervous.

While I sometimes daydream about a day I can afford to become a member and have a whole set of shelves to fill, having one shelf really makes me think creatively about how to fit everything on it.  I always have things hanging off the shelf or teetering on top of containers that make people nervous.  I like living on the edge (of the shelf).

 

I really like this one.

I have to figure out which rim dip it was.

  

 I like the spotting on the rim.

  

 This one went well.

  

 All I did was dip the rim in black

and it dripped pretty uniformly.

  

 Another heavily textured pot.

  

Soup bowl awaiting mug handle.

I need to work on this shape more.

  

Another casserole with the lid behind it to the left.

  

The rogues gallery.

Back to work(?)

I can't call it work by any stretch of the imagination --it's too much fun. I have longed to be back in the studio (as you know if you've been reading this blog) and this week it finally happened. Classes started again at Clayworks! It was wonderful.

I enjoyed it so much I went to my regular Wednesday class and the Thursday night class. It was great seeing everyone and catching up with their summers --and then there was clay, too.

The orangestone clay I was using was unusually stiff, but it was still wonderful. I just cone-wedged and wet it on the wheel (after adding extra grog). On Wednesday I was pleased with the first pot I threw after such a long absence, which surprised me. I threw several more and thoroughly enjoyed myself (and had a lot of fun clowning with everyone else).

I am going to try to make some garden bells this session (think wind chime), so I threw a bunch of them in different sizes. I need to try all different sizes and thicknesses to find out what sounds the best. It should be a fun project and I'm looking forward to seeing (and hearing) some finished bells.

I threw large, textured pots, some lids, various bells, some pods (closed, organic, pointed forms), most of them off the hump, and only lost one. Life is good. I finished my "free" bag of clay from my class (in two nights, a new record for me!) and bought two more tonight. I am serious about making some pots this session.

Lots of pots under plastic.

Bit closer detail.

More clay for next time.

Elaine, I've made eleven pots so far this week (not counting lids). Only 89 more to go. You'd better hurry back from the beach. It's on.