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5 Reasons to Keep Making Pottery

Not that I need any more reasons to make more pots! Anyway, here are 5 reasons that I continue to press on. I’ve made a lot of bad pots but I feel like these recent pots give me some new direction and inspiration for my future work.

Dripping (C)up

Dripping (C)up

Dripping (C)up

Do you see what I did there? The ‘C’ is optional so it can be read “dripping cup” or “dripping up.” Get it?

Technical Info: Fired to ^6 in oxidation, Warm Brown Stoneware. Glazes: Licorice inside, Jen’s Juicy Fruit and Waterfall Brown outside.

Inspired by: Justin Rothshank’s seconds shelf dripping mug and a discussion with Dick Lehman about firing lids on teapots.

Why I like it: Fairly unique?, interesting color patterns, the glaze becomes part of the structure. I like how a little bit of bare clay shows through near the rim even though that was probably an accident.

Where to go next: I’ll continue to fire things upside down. And explore “glaze as structure” instead of just a surface decoration. I think that I could get some longer glaze drips if I get the right firing program set up. I’ll also look into different shapes and textures to see how that affects the glaze drips. I just made a pinch pot with some grooves and stamps just for this purpose. This is actually my third or fourth attempt at this. I have one that is in The Cup: An Interpreted Object. It was my first attempt at firing something upside down and I had some blistering glaze issues which actually look pretty cool. I only finished one before the entries were due or I would have entered this one, above. [Read more…]

New Pots: September 2013

I’ve been a little busy lately… but here are some pics of my latest pots. Which seem like old news to me since these were finished in September, just in time for the Middlebury Fall Festival. Pretty good results though.

frosted bowl
frosted bowl
tumblers
tumblers
textured, wheel thrown bowl
textured, wheel thrown bowl

textured cup
textured cup
textured blue bowl
textured blue bowl
stoneware cereal bowls
stoneware cereal bowls

small cups
small cups
small colorful cup
small colorful cup
cups
cups

medium serving bowls
medium serving bowls
large serving plate
large serving plate
jen's juicy fruit tests
jen’s juicy fruit tests

Everything is wheel thrown with Warm Brown Stoneware and fired to ^6 in my electric kiln.

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Now We’re Getting Somewhere

Glaze Experiments

Glaze Experiments

I fired up the kiln a few days ago with a load full of experimental work. Most of it involved new glaze combinations involving Jen’s Juicy Fruit.

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