Joseph Fireborn
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I am investing in time, I get up for work at 3:30AM on a few days of the week, and instead of sleeping in on my days off I am going to just get up on those days too and work in the studio before the kids get up. I have all the equipment I need, I just need more time. Some ideas for my work popped into my head and I would like to explore them!
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I just open the garage door and listen to the birds lately. I watch my dog lay in the driveway getting too hot, then coming in the garage to cool down, then moving back to the driveway and repeating this all day.
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@liambesaw Congratulations in the most happy way possible during these trying times. I wish you all the best.
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Finally settling on a single glaze for all of my work.
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Been making yunomi around the clock. I have been testing a lot of clay mixes and additions and I have some big plans for my standard white glaze work. Also been making some new marks on my work that I haven't usually made and I plan to leave the areas rawish of clay. Hopefully, once I can get what is in my head down on the pot it will be as beautiful as I imagine it. I could literally make yunomi and nothing else for the rest of my life. They are the absolute perfection of a pot.
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Green house isn't as good as a wet box for sure. It will give you a day or so to catch up but after that gonna be to dry.
I mostly like it for even drying more than anything.
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I use a small green house for my mug handles. Works perfectly. I also use it for when something comes up and I can't get to my work to trim it.
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Aye. RIP Warren. Legend.
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Just pulled this out of the kiln. One of my better pots with this decoration style.
Figured I would share in the joy of posting stuff on workbench! Waiting on the rest of the load to cool so I can see all the rest of it. Hopefully more as good as this one. It is nice to get a little reward before I take a long pottery break yet again to study. Hopefully I will have time to get back out in the garage and get some more work made!
- Mike.Kelly, Min, Gabby and 4 others
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Ear. The only way I like my handles. Although I want to try the kind where its an ear with a finger pulled up at the top.
Like this, by Ayumi Horie:
- Rae Reich and yappystudent
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My workbench is empty! Well besides all the non pottery related junk on it. I just pulled out some of the best yunomi I have ever made in my entire life. So that was epic. I am going to make 6 bowls to donate to the Patsiliga kiln in south Georgia, its a big woodfired kiln. I have never been a part of the wood firing, but I would like to be one day. I like supporting stuff like that anyways. I am going to go to the bowl event and deliver my bowls and maybe even buy someone else's work. I might post the bowls after I have slipped them with black crackle slip, and maybe after the kiln as well, since this seems like a progress type of thread!
I am glad everyone is still here rocking away. Good to be back even if its only for a few weeks.
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What is the best pot you have ever made? + pictures if you have them.
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This is interesting. Did you seal the saggar or is it just a loose dome over the bottom?Just curious because all together its interesting to think about saggars in electric. I know in the old days with wooden kilns people used to saggar fire porcelain to get perfect tea bowls etc, but never thought about it in electric to do the opposite.
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2 minutes ago, Pres said:
Ron, I realized that, just pointing out that for some the need to do things differently is important. I haven't had a full cookie since 2009.
We stopped eating gluten, as it was tearing our stomachs up and making me and my wife ache. We didn't realize it but over the last 30 years we have developed a sensitivity to gluten. We have cut it out completely and feel much better. It is hard to do. I agree the apples look better with the pie crust deliciousness, but there is no way I could eat that now.
I might make an apple baker. It looks interesting to throw and we love apples. Yum. I had forgot about this post. I need to throw the bowls and cut them in half too.
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15 minutes ago, Pres said:
Have you ever thrown an apple baker?
I have no idea what that even is. The only forms I have thrown are:
- mugs, cups, beakers, yunomi, etc.
- bowls, of all sizes and types.
- plates, platters
- vases
I haven't made anything else, and the things I have made in these categories are pretty limited. But I am sure mine will need work, which will be helpful as you can draw a line on them in paint or something so others can see what they should be going for. I gather this is the goal of this post right? My bowls and plates should be near perfect though. I assume my cylinders will need some loving.
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I'll throw the shapes and take pictures just to see where I am at in this. I think my cylinders are still not the best. I have a hard time getting the very bottom of the walls even. I will try this next time I am in the studio.
Interesting stuff pres.
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Have had this in the back of my mind for a few days, came up with something that makes me shake my head and smile. My parents.
Have had comments from them ranging from “people actually buy these?†to a remark on a speckled glaze, “oh, it looks like it has fleasâ€. Doesn’t stop there, at a market my dad came into my tent (while customers there) and said “has it been this slow all day?†Not to be outdone my mum once said, “if we pay your tuition how about going into accountingâ€.
My husband and children have always been super supportive.
So, question would be, what’s your family like?
(if you don't have one, want to borrow my parents?)
Hahaha. I love it.
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What is your favorite part of your most favorite glaze and why?
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I felt like the results thread was a nice place to see all the work finished, but I also liked seeing the works in progress posted on the actual topic. I feel like the results thread was a lot of extra work for you Joel and we should have just posted our works in progress and final pictures as went in the same place.
- Pyewackette, Rebekah Krieger and LeeU
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I will be sure to send you some pictures. ! It has been so long since I threw anything today I forgot how I made my work. Like I could throw stuff just fine, but it didn't feel like mine. Going to take a while until I get back into the soulfulness of my work.