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Just got a call from a friend, telling me where a new source of clay is down by the river. He says there are two veins, a grey vein and a beige vein. Will test each one shortly. He said someone has really been digging into it.
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With the extra houses, I can see why its a category 2, possibly upgraded to 3 later. A category 3 costs mmore, right? Poor Toto! -
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Working in pairs!!! My late friend Linda loved to carve, but had trouble throwing. I would throw and trim things and she'd carve them. Her thrown pottery was so wonky I consider it folk ark! I'm lucky enough to have a couple of her carved vessels and really lucky to have a couple of her wonky pieces. This is cone 10 stoneware, glazed inside and on the neck and the rest is stained with a black iron oxide wash..© Ali Bhama
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Well this answers the age old question: What does a snail say riding on the back of a turtle? Ans: Wwhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee! -
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You can't really tell but the skies opened up and it poured down rain as I was finishing up firing this last pot at the Indian village. There are raindrops in side the bowl but the rain on the jar evaporates as soon as it hits the surface. I went inside fort Toulouse to visit and wait for the vessel to cool off. That's all you can do. See ya, Alabama -
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Firing pottery today at the Fort Toulouse Indian Village. Fired pots rest against the tree. The glowing bowl under the fire is finished and cooling down. As it cools it obtains the distinct markings of flame clouds and smudge marks. Start to finish is one hour. -
uffington candle burner
alabama commented on christine.dehn's gallery image in Browse Member Galleries
I really like this. Very clever!!! -
Am I the only one to receive offers to give a one to one free workshops to total strangers?
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I get request all the time. I get kind of offended because they act like they can learn in 4 hours the knowledge I have acquired over 40 years.
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I'm from Europe and didn't get any offers. Should I be offended? Embarassed? Left out? ;-)
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No offers for me either, but when I was an IT trainer, I did "at-desk" training and the department finance guys would get upset that we charged the participant plus any colleagues who gathered around and watched. Our answer was that if you got on a bus and your friend was "just coming with you", they too would have to pay!
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Belgium 1550 AD. Cone 10 Trinity Red stone ware reduction. Three pounds clay. Seeya, Alabama -
Figurative Tornado Planter (W.I.P.)
alabama commented on ChenowethArts's gallery image in Browse Member Galleries
It is sooooo funny, it actually needs a warning. There are more than one spewed coffee and stained computer screen. Its genius and cruel to the unexpected at the same time. Bring on the cows and chickens. Alabama -
We made Pete's Cranberry after attending the Clay Conference in Florence, AL. Pete Pinnell was the presenter. Ours we made at the college did NOT look like yours. I think we poured it out. We WISHED it looked like yours. Ours was the Unmodified Petes Cranberry if I remember. :>) -
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Flared rim bowl. Red iron oxide pigment. Oxidized! Its better to oxidize painted pottery. Coil built - primitive fired!!! Alabà mà -
Chinese Dragon Flower Pot
alabama commented on Cavy Fire Studios's gallery image in Browse Member Galleries
If I had your talent, while resting between making pottery, I'd illustrate a children's book about rodents and dragons. A large one as in coffee table version. Maybe 24 x 20 inch. You may want to start with single posters. The profit margin is good for posters!!! Then the book. -
A couple of months ago I was looking for gray clay about 55 miles from Slapout when the property owner drove past an abandoned, early 20th c. tenant house falling in on itself. I asked do you want those bricks, and would you trade pottery for them? He can't wait for me to get the bricks so he can enjoy some pottery!!! The house has two chimneys and several pillars for footings. Should be enough for a kiln or two. :>)
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Unless you you fire very very very low. Most architectural bricks will not make a good kiln
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I usually demonstrate firing pottery 3 or 4 times a year. Responses range from "Wow, that's great!!!" to "Is that all there is to it? yawn!" Every 4 years there is the kid who asks, "Is that a real fire?" :>)
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Sketch to First Round of Pots
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I recognized it immediately from last weeks future project sketches. Didn't even have to look to see who made it!!! -
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This is my fiber tempered vessel, tempered with Spanish Moss.. Vessels like this were made about 4500 yrs ago in the southeastern USA. They are crude and look like ceramic pails. :-) -
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Two egg bakers. 325 degrees for 25 minutes. Sometimes their more tough than reg. boiled eggs, but not bad. The brown spots wash off when rinsed. -
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Pottery kit - wooden salad bowl,plain paddle, check or simple stamp, complicated stamp paddle, cord wrapped paddle, shell and stone rib, burnishing stone from Wisconsin, 2 cane needle tools. This will make sand tempered vessels from any culture from Jomon to historic Creek, historic Cherokee, and Iroquois. - Alabama -
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Tile made by late friend Pat. While in remission she made a leaf tile for her friends and family. Her daughter asked for 7 more to cover one wall. She says, "I love you honey, but not that much!!!" The tile is cone 10 stoneware in reduction. At least 1/2 inch thick. -
Well, mixing all the different clays together worked for the pit fired bowls. I decided to make a fiber tempered vessel and didn't remember how to add Spanish Moss to clay, so I threw 8 lbs. clay on top of a mass of moss...Did not work...So I cut the Spanish Moss into 4 inch sections and wedged that in bit by bit. That worked, so I added moss until I got tired adding moss. Now all there is to do is to fire it next week.
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Getting ready to fire pottery. Having two or three wood piles helps avoid smoke.
