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Waterfall Brown glaze. Dipped 1-2 sec. Viscosity @ 11.58 on pie plate and mug.

awkward area between sections but it still holds a lot of pots in racks. the hanging pocket is for dried flowers only, it will not hold water and is labelled as such.

I am fairly new to pottery and I am just getting to the point where I am happy with some of the things I am making. This form is 4lbs which is one of the largest I have worked on. I am pleased with it as it was not overly wonky. I added the dog collar on this morning..
 
Kevin

the new green glaze has depth, i love it.

Green Leaf

Made 4 matching bowls in this glaze combo and B-Mix. I have to say, I LOVE how b-mix throws, I can get the walls so thin and delicate. The colors show up fabulous on it as well. Only problem is when I remove the pots from the wheel white wet, if they warp even slightly, they held that warp through firing. Personally, I am okay with this, as the pieces were very thin with undeveloped lips to hold their shape, and they otherwise feel ok. Had no problems with cracking, only the warping.
 
I don't have many other options for white or light clay bodies, so I will probably continue to use it.

Waterfall Brown glaze. Dipped 1-2 sec. Viscosity @ 11.58 on pie plate and mug.

Waterfall Brown glaze. Dipped 1-2 sec. Viscosity @ 11.58 on pie plate and mug.

Waterfall Brown glaze. Dipped 1-2 sec. Viscosity @ 11.58 on pie plate and mug.

This is the second "House Wine" vessel that I made. This time, underglaze transfers were added in an effort to build more depth to the surface. These are fun to make but seem to require a good bit of time on the workbench.
 
This one is headed for a November show.

This is a close-up of the lid/stopper for the "House Wine" vessel. I like sneaking in some detail work on areas that don't show when the top is in place.

I started out calling this light Nodding Amaryllis but it looks more like Solomons Seal.

Handbuilt stoneware mugs, approximately 12oz capacity, fired cone10. Surface treatment includes 3-d dwelling, carved-out hillside community, and underglaze image transfers. The transfers are new to me...using a CriCut Explore to create silkscreen masks through which thickened underglaze is printed onto rice paper. Once dried, the surface of the mug is coated in underglaze, the transfer is sprayed until saturated, and then pressed/burnished (with pint side to the mug) onto the bisque fired surface. I'm not yet comfortable enough with this technique to try it on greenware but it should work equally well.
 
Certainly there is a story to these mugs...the short version centers around work in some of the poorest slums in Central/South America in contrast with visits to numerous iconic cites in Europe.

The results of an experiment with adding a touch of decoration. I kept the profile of the slip trailing lower than normal so I didn't add a hard-to-clean texture to the inside of a bowl. It came out really nicely.

Iron oxide washed, celadon glaze.

Clay beads ready to fire plus the arrowhead I found on the way. Its a mid archaic atlatl blank,not finished, and was made about 1000-1500 years before pottery in the USA. Beads are untempered and were made with a bamboo skewer. Beads have twice the moisture content of pottery!

Coil built, Shell tempered, burnished, pit fired, post fired engraved. Typical 15th century Mississippian Culture pottery. Pre-fired engraved on greenware is much, much easier...happen to have a senior moment at the time! Oh, my pit fire crew is Heidi Boxer and Kelli Stray dog. Heidi is going on 13.
The mussel shells were burnt, then crushed, then added to the river clay.

Coosa river clay vein at Jordan Dam Landing. The Baretta M9 15 case is for scale. The vein is exposed is about 5 feet thick and 25 feet long, which could be a lifetime supply. About 20 pounds were collected and should be processed and bowls made tomorrow. Since I'm off work Friday, I'll try firing then to see if the clay is worth using!
See ya,
Alabama

Nothing like a perfectly formed crystal.

Carved with pencil. This mug was the first, so I have added more to the other mugs. I am using a lotus for the design with each petal having some motifs of Peace, Love (heart), Namaste, Vegan and scrolling vines with butterflies. Added my name, logo and Buster stamp on a petal in instead of the bottom, where I carved the spirit symbol.
 
Any suggestions are welcome, please. I was thinking of trying different glazing techniques. I'm open to any ideas. It is a Bee Mix 5 white body, no sand. I fire to ^6.

Carved with pencil. This mug was the first, so I have added more to the other mugs. I am using a lotus for the design with each petal having some motifs of Peace, Love (heart), Namaste, Vegan and scrolling vines with butterflies. Added my name, logo and Buster stamp on a petal in instead of the bottom, where I carved the spirit symbol.
 
Any suggestions are welcome, please. I was thinking of trying different glazing techniques. I'm open to any ideas. It is a Bee Mix 5 white body, no sand. I fire to ^6.

Zinc crystal 800X

Carved with pencil. This mug was the first, so I have added more to the other mugs. I am using a lotus for the design with each petal having some motifs of Peace, Love (heart), Namaste, Vegan and scrolling vines with butterflies. Added my name, logo and Buster stamp on a petal in instead of the bottom, where I carved the spirit symbol.
 
Any suggestions are welcome, please. I was thinking of trying different glazing techniques. I'm open to any ideas. It is a Bee Mix 5 white body, no sand. I fire to ^6.