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First Glaze Fire of 2013

I had a chance to fire some pieces a few weeks ago and just recently took some photos of some of my favorites. Finally today, I got the images to my computer and made them web worthy.

Warm Brown Stoneware fired to ^6.

: keep calm

: FRINGE white tulips

: FRINGE inspired mugs

: sprayed vases

: vases

: blue texture detail

: textured cups

: running glaze detail

: black and white cup detail

: stoneware cups

: small tumblers

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Glazing Pots, Adjusting Glazes

Who loves a three day weekend? I do! And so does my clay studio.

glazed pots

Another snow/ice day yesterday for me to stay home and work on pots. After a solid day of work Monday to go with my time in the studio over the weekend, I’m pretty close to finished with glazing this cycle of pots. I have a handful of pots that I want to spray with glazes but I might wait and do that outside.

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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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Glaze Fire Results – October 2012

Here are some of the highlights of the load I pulled out of the kiln in late October. Actually, you can see some of the mugs in the Zombie Run post.

But here is some of the best non-sculptural work:

: zombie mugs

: handmade mixing bowl

: glossy rust cups

: charger mugs

: barely blue pie plate

: black and brown berry bowl

: stoneware mugs

: stoneware mixing bowl

: splattered bowl

All functional ware. All wheel thrown with Warm Brown Stoneware and glaze fired to ^6.

Pretty good results overall. I like the combination of the Waterfall Brown and Licorice glazes (both from Mastering Cone 6 Glazes). I also mixed up a small amount of the Glossy Clear Liner to use on the inside of some pots.

As for form, I feel like I’ve got a pretty good variety in this load. I’m still refining a lot of things but I’m making progress.

I’ve got a bunch of pots downstairs drying that I hope to get finished for Christmas. I’ve also got some more posts to publish on the blog here. Hopefully soon! Thanks for reading.

Zombie Run Trophy Sculptures – Part 1

I’m a sculptor!

Well, maybe not. But I learned a lot while working on a special project over the past month. In fact, this project seemed to be a master class in problem solving.

Zombie Run!

My task was to create two statues to use as trophies for the West Noble Zombie Run which took place on November 3rd. So I started by brainstorming some ideas and doing a few “clay sketches” to see what might work.

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