General Update & Moving into Art Fair Season....

So moving forward...  It is about to be summer, so Art Fairs and similar will be going on pretty soon. Due to my day job I have very little ability to actually make it to these to sell pots. But working through the community studio, we will as an organization participate. So this will get my stuff out there at least.

I do have my pots placed in one shop, along with some friends.  There might be another place to as well, still discussing this. So I have been making some additional work to go there.  They want pricing done is a specific organized manner. This led to me pricing all my works in an inventory or "Standard Ware" list.

So here is my "extra" plate.  I made a set of four, and made actually five place settings to ensure I could walk off with five. well... I only ended up with one extra piece.  So here is is, looking pretty cool I think.  But it is now in the gallery for sale. The whole dinner set, a service for four, is completed and it has a spoon and chopstick to go with each place setting as well.  I priced it, with help, at $250.  No cups with it, as really it seems people rarely use the cups that came with their dinner sets.

So as part of the new work, I am doing a small run (very small, in part due to lack of time) of bowls. I am raw glazing these.

Nice pronounced feet, big enough so I could hold it with my fingers and put the bowl upside down.  It allows me to glaze without have to wax.

So finally all trimmed up, here you can see (blurry, I am sorry) a splash of Fuzzy White.

And then put a layer of Blue Fur glaze.

I finished off the glaze class.  It went ok.  In terms of the initial objectives?  ya, it was a failure.  It was to get more people to the studio and hopefully take into folks that do clay but currently unattached and therefore potential members.  but no one from the community came at all.

So yesterday I made more clay, tried to not let it be an all day project so made 30#.  And at the end of the glaze class, we did a quick Raku Firing.  I was tired by then, so I did not throw anything.

Jade Dinner Set

So this glaze is Blue Chun #2, now if you make it very thick... it gets blue. But here, it looks like Jade.  Here is the dinner set all fired off... I have four place setting and need a price for the set.  It will include the soup spoon (I didn't make it) and chopsticks.


Here is the glaze all dry materials before I added water and screened it.

For whatever reason the picture I took of the bowls in the kiln did not load.. but here are the plates in the kiln.

And here is the table setting

A new Dinner Ware/ Table Ware Project

So this is a place setting for four. it includes a plate, a small soup or rice bowl, and a large bowl.  It is an Asian inspired dinner set.

i made it for four place settings but really made five of each to prepare for issues... off the bat I destroyed a small bowl in the throwing...  Here they are as greenware, I did iron oxide design (which turns brown).  It will be glazed in Chun Blue #2.  You can see the design is a bit different on each part of the setting.  The stamp you can see clearly on the slab plate, but this stamp is also on the inside bottom of all the bowls.

Here you can see the stages of creating the slab plates from a slab all the way to greenware with the iron oxide design.

Large bowls drying enough to be able to cut them and move them onto a ware board.  I often do this straight from the wheel, but I wanted to preserve the very round shape in this case.  I don't always care or want to do that with a bowl.

Large bowls trimed, you can see the off center foot I do.

Large bowl, odd man out in terms of shape. So this will be the "extra #5" and I will likely glaze it differently.

Large Pho inspired bowls

Small Rice/Soup bowls

Everything drying so I can bisque!!

A Quick Look at Plates

As a part of the last firing, I did some test glazing to see if a few of the glazes work with slip design.  You can see below it worked out pretty well

Below is Rutile Green, you can see the texture under the glaze but not really the color.

This was Fuzzy White, you can see how it bleeds through pretty well. This works for me.

This is the Chun Blue #2.  You can see blue and green, especially around the white slip.  This also works for me.

Pottery in Motion... the Dinner Set

So the Dinner Set was an early mother's day gift.  It was for us to be able to use today for Easter.  I also brought out some other pottery of mine so we could have enough serving plates.

The Other New Glaze... CHUN

So Chun #2 is a hit!  Below you see it on porcelain.  Then you see it on Speckled Buff.

And here?.... a random unrelated pot.  That is Rutile Green.  Before I used it very thin because I liked the effect... the very effect I get with the Chun #2!

The Dinner Set is... done?

Ok, not really done. I have to make up the missing pieces that died along the way.  In keeping with me breaking things every step... yes I broke a piece that was glazed...

The glaze ran BTW, not a huge deal but good to know. I really really like how this glaze came out.  The pix do not do justice to the glimmer to blue in the thicker sections...

But done and delivered. I am pulling things from home so we have enough plates, and we are ready for Easter.