Aug 01
This looks a lot like a smiley ball without a face, doesn’t it? I wanted to do something as close to a sphere as I could manage, just because it’s pretty easy and it’s sometimes nice to have a heavy ball to roll around in your hands. I coated it with red iron oxide (as …
Jul 25
In the pottery studio, there used to be a postcard with a photo of this really cool freaky hare sculpture. Naturally, when I went looking for it to use as a reference, it had mysteriously vanished. I did this anyway, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I wanted that weird blobby texture …
Jul 18
I didn’t feel much like throwing this class session, so I decided to try some alternative pottery ideas. This is one of them. My friend had some plastic embossing strips for ceramic artists, and she used them to make a cool mug. I made this mug, which didn’t turn out quite as cool because there …
Jan 06
Here are two more smiley balls, ready to give away, once I file off the pits left by the stilts. Astute observers will note that the colors of glaze are the same as on the “thorny pot” from December.
Jan 03
Part of doing art of any kind involves learning from failure. I find the low-fire glazes rather tiresome to apply, especially when you can’t set them down until the glaze dries. I made the nifty double-fork tongs to help glaze them (see last post) and I naturally assumed that it would be easy to just …
