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Happy New Year!

Or Happy… Year? I guess Â 2013 isn’t exactly “new” since a month has already come and gone. Happy Day After Groundhog Day? Happy Super Sunday!

And it has been far too long since I’ve even glanced at this poor blog. So I’ve decided to give your retinas a treat and share some work that I finished last year. The first pots with my new brown and “white” glazes!

tan mixing bowl

The mixing bowl. I really like the form. I think it will become my standard mixing bowl shape where I can explore some surface decoration. I’ll try to post more about what went “wrong” later. The glaze didn’t turn out as white as expected.

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August Glaze Fire Results

I’ve got some images of pots from my August glaze fire. Below are some of my favorites:

: wheel thrown mugs

: textured blue cups

: stoneware berry bowl

: saturated iron vases

: mixing bowl with handle

: celadon blue mugs and vase

: barely blue yarn bowls

: barely blue word mugs

: barely blue berry bowl

All wheel thrown stoneware with cone 6 glazes. Mostly Celadon Blue and Saturated Iron by Coyote. You can check my Facebook Page for a few more pots.

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Early July Glaze Fire Results

Finally getting some images uploaded of the pots that I glaze fired at the beginning of the month!

: altered vases

: artbyfuzzy tags

: barely blue toothbrush holder

: barely blue vase

: blue berry bowl

: barely blue mugs

: blue pbl mugs

: blue stamped cups

: brown glaze test cups

: brown stoneware cups

: mugs with test glaze

: pam’s blue cups

: pam’s blue mug

: pam’s blue vases

: rusted cups

: sunset yarnbowl

: tiny clay sculptures

Not pictured are a handful of pots that will be re-fired to improve some glaze results that weren’t what I was hoping for. And one or two mugs that already have happy new homes. And a few pots that are just fine but not eye catching enough for me to take a photo, edit the photo, upload the photo and type in a description of the pot.

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May 2012 Glaze Fire Results

It’s about time! I’m finally getting results of the last glaze fire uploaded. I fired these at the end of May just in time to take a few pieces to school for an End of School Year sale.

Everything is Warm Brown Stoneware fired to cone 6 in oxidation.

: West Noble Steins

: WNP Pencil Holders

: West Noble Mugs

: Stoneware Cups

: Wheel Thrown Brown Cups

: Teal Vase with Running Glaze

: Wheel Thrown Teal Vase

: Barely Blue Bottle

: Barely Blue Tall Stoneware Vase

: Running Glaze Closeup

: Pendants / Jewelry

: PBL Pam’s Iron Steins

: PBL All Blue Steins

: Frogs and Hand Stamp

: Dark Brown Vase

: Website Sticks

: Brown Mugs with Brushmarks

: Barely Blue Mugs and Cups

The firing went pretty well. I only have to re-fire one or two pieces due to minor glaze defects. The Sapphire Blue glaze was still a little thin. I made a few more pendants and tried some different shapes and sizes. About half were made of the Warm Brown Stoneware and the rest were Buff Stoneware with Grog which is lighter clay with dark specks. I also made some little sticks of clay with my website address stamped on them. I can give these away like little business cards or add them to orders or scatter them across the countryside.

Not pictured are two yarn bowls and probably another piece or two. The yarn bowls warped a bunch but my grandma still liked them and took them home with her. There was a third but it broke while I was glazing it. I think the walls were a little too thin for yarn bowls. The other yarn bowls I’ve made had thicker walls and didn’t break during glazing or warp much, if at all.

Soon some of these items will be available on Etsy! My store isn’t up yet but I’m in the middle of writing descriptions and getting images ready. When it’s ready you should be able to find it here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtByFuzzy.

In other news, I’ve been busy in the clay studio. I’m also ready to start my class at the clay artists guild! I’ll try to post some of the things that I learn.