Rae Reich
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Ah, I have many. Each holds a memory for me, from beginning fellow students, trades with other potters, admired artists and teachers. Most are cups and mugs, some larger serving pieces, some sculpture
I've been wondering what the best way to catalog/document The Permanent Collection. A note inside or bottom? Photo album with notes? Video tour?
What do you guys do or recommend?
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19 hours ago, hantremmer said:
Good point. I have been writing the clay name if it's one I don't normally use, but doing it consistently would be a better idea. A lot of my foot rings are quite small, so there isn't much space. I might be able to use the trimming date and then a number for each pot trimmed on that date. That way I could keep a log in my notebook.
You can establish a code number/letter that would be easier to inscribe on small areas, just don't lose the code!
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On 5/21/2018 at 3:03 PM, hantremmer said:
After I trim a pot I inscribe the date on the bottom.
Not just the date, the clay type/firing temp is essential when you're not going to fire for a while.
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On 4/14/2018 at 10:13 PM, oldlady said:
today i had things on my workbench i would be happy to let anyone see. hope they all make it through the next steps to finished product.
i would be happy if i could capture in the final firing that soft color of the slip. who knows how it will look when it is finished?
Love where you're going with your decoration "pushing the envelope" of your forms!!
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20 hours ago, Callie Beller Diesel said:
My workbench is full of ugly bisque again. I really is my least favourite stage. But a week and a half ago, I decided it would be a good idea to document some new compost buckets before I was packing them up to go to a sale. These are much nicer pictures!
Love the contrast of the red clay and the fat white glaze of the top pic! Does that glaze have tin ?
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I worked with a male potter, short with potter muscles, who made tall slender mugs with narrow extruded handles. I'm a average sized woman of slender build who makes sturdy, broad-based mugs with beefy handles. Go figure.
My non-ware work, tho, is definitely more feminine looking as it usually decorated with freehand drawn and carved floral designs.
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16 hours ago, Rex Johnson said:
My first instructor was well traveled in the orient and a believer in the discipline.
Our first assignment was to throw ten 10" cylinders of the same diameter.
If you cannot, then throw until you can.
Yikes! I pictured ten cylinders that were 10" tall and of the same (10") diameter! THAT would be a challenge
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On 9/21/2017 at 3:04 PM, Min said:
I enjoy trying to answer the questions posed in PQotW and I’m both impressed and covetous of the sheer volume of books Pres has. (no pun intended) Started me thinking about my own meagre collection and which one I find the most useful or enjoyable. So, my question would be, if you could only have one ceramics book what would it be and why? (plus, I’m curious what Pres would choose)
Waaaa! Need 3 categories: pots, glazes, firing/kilns
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On 10/24/2017 at 8:01 AM, Pres said:
Hi folks, I have been thinking a lot of late of the types of things that would be good experiences for beginning throwers, withing to improve their throwing skills. so a few listings of ideas in this thread would be helpful for anyone wishing to develop greater throwing skills and control on the wheel.
Basic
- 9" cylinder with 3# of clay. This should have a flat bottom, evenly compressed, side walls tapering slightly in thickness to the rim that should be slightly thicker than the side walls at the top. Cut several horizontally in half to gauge your progress using a cutting wire from the base to the top.
- 8" diameter bowl with 3# of clay. Remember that a true bowl has a rounded interior, so when opening up develop a rounded bottom instead of a flat bottom as in the cylinder. Again cut several of these in half to check progress. Always remember that a bowl will need extra thickness at the base to support the outer walls from collapsing.
- 10" plate with 3# of clay. Begin using softer clay, and make careful compression across the area of the plate, as the biggest problem with plates is the lack of compression causing "s" shaped cracks.
Basic + Hump
- Vessel- small cup off of tennis ball size piece of clay. Throw several off of a 4-6# Ball of clay, center the entire ball as much as possible into a cone, then center the top portion of the cone into a tennis ball size, well centered. Throw a cylinder shape, use a rib to define the base, and cut from wheel with a cutting wire, and remove to a bat. Repeat until all of the ball is used up.
- Bowl-throw several bowls using a baseball sized ball of clay off of a 4-6# hump of clay. Try to make the form a bowl shape, cut and remove as in the vessel, and check progress.
- Apple baker-Start this form with a baseball sized piece of clay. Open the form as in a bowl, slightly away from center leaving a center stem area. Open the center stem area and pull upwards into narrow cone, close the cone with your fingers, necking inward. Then finish shaping the outer bowl area. cut and remove from the wheel. Check progress with these also to assess the two pulled shapes in the single form.
These are just thoughts and I wouldn't have had the apple baker in this list until lately. However, I do believe that the simplicity and complexity of the form will help to improve throwing skills of anyone wishing to advance their skill level.
Please feel free to add projects that you believe that will advance throwing skills for a beginner, intermediate, or advanced thower.
best,
Pres
Small edit, Pres. In Basic 1. Cut cylinders vertically (we know what you meant, but if you print out for hand-outs)
QotW: Have you ever made a clay toy?
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