Magnolia Mud Research
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Magnolia Mud Research got a reaction from Rae Reich in QotW: What are the rituals you follow when the creative juices dry up, or the joys of making pottery becomes tedious because of deadline demands?
I follow the concept in this quote from Chuck Close:
“Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Chuck Close
( https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/166434.Chuck_Close )
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Magnolia Mud Research reacted to Chris Campbell in QotW: Where does one draw the line between deciding what is a second and what is OK to represent your name?
For me it is not pride or ego ... it is in my nature. I simply cannot sell a pot I believe to be a ‘second’ at any price.
I have learned that for me ... a ‘second’ is a second before bisque. Nothing in a firing is going to save it. No glaze or decoration is going to do magic. No raku voodoo is going to hide it. So I don’t bisque it. No piece is so precious it cannot be made again.
Set your own standards on what is a second for you, then live with it.
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Magnolia Mud Research reacted to Pres in What’s on your workbench?
Wedding jar completed except for cleanup a little after it sets up some more.
best,
Pres
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Magnolia Mud Research reacted to neilestrick in What’s on your workbench?
When you have a cylinder that is open on the bottom, as it tries to shrink it will catch on the shelf and warp. By putting a slab under it, the slab will shrink with the cylinder, allowing the cylinder to shrink freely. I've even had tall foot rings on large bowls warp.
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Magnolia Mud Research got a reaction from Rae Reich in Beginning wheel throwing projects
nerd, Based on your statement: "Even when I slow down, pay very close attention, still pull the top of the cylinder slightly off and open," and my observations of many students (including myself) I am guessing that you are pulling your hands of horizontally from the top and you are moving them rapidly while the wheel speed is slow. If so, the most likely cause is the surface tension between the clay and your hand - usually the fingers. The corrective action is: move your hand away from the clay surface slowly to allow the wheel to rotate several times as you move your hands off the clay. LT -
Magnolia Mud Research reacted to Callie Beller Diesel in Cone 6 Reduction Electric Kiln Firing in Saggars
Interesting approach.
Im curious why the iron oxide?
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Magnolia Mud Research got a reaction from Rae Reich in Qotw: Participants Question Pool For Future Qotw's
You know you are not meant to be a potter if ...... You are more excited by the details of a process or technique than the pots you make using these skills. See Tony Clennell's posts over the last month:
http://smokieclennell.blogspot.com/2018/02/confession-im-not-potter.html
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Magnolia Mud Research got a reaction from D.M.Ernst in Beginning wheel throwing projects
nerd, Based on your statement: "Even when I slow down, pay very close attention, still pull the top of the cylinder slightly off and open," and my observations of many students (including myself) I am guessing that you are pulling your hands of horizontally from the top and you are moving them rapidly while the wheel speed is slow. If so, the most likely cause is the surface tension between the clay and your hand - usually the fingers. The corrective action is: move your hand away from the clay surface slowly to allow the wheel to rotate several times as you move your hands off the clay. LT -
Magnolia Mud Research reacted to Evelyne Schoenmann in Important Ceramic Artists Who Should Be Known
Carlo Zauli (Faenza-Italy)
Prof.Dr. Gaetano Ballardini (Faenza)
Hans Coper (Germany)
Robin Hopper (Canada)
Eva Zeisel (Hungary and USA)
Otto Lindig (Germany)
Horst Kerstan (Germany)
Edmund de Waal (UK)
Roberto Lugo (USA) "this machine kills hate"...
Lotte Reimers (Germany)
Will think of more.....
