I've been throwing pots all day and it just doesn't seem like I got very far. 2 jars with cap lids, 1 bowl and 3 miniature bottles. The miniature bottles are new for me and takes me forever to get done. Just gives me a new perspective for the ones that I purchase at the sales, 6.00 - 10.00 a piece!

Hoping to get these pieces up to Funke's for bisque firing so that I'll get them back by June 13th when we load at Maple Creek. Looking forward to a good wood firing!!

Well, this has been an exciting day - I really had WAY TOO MUCH to do - but it all ended well. I went to Burlington Flea Market today and picked up this old thrown jug. Got it for next to nothing, but the spout is chipped.

After I left the Flea Mkt, I headed to Covington to a China sale where I purchased a large lidded jar and traded for a bowl. Both items had been wood fired.

About 1:00, Gary and I headed for Butler County OH for a Hot Rod show. That was so much fun. Lots and lots of old cars.

I picked up some of my pottery at Bakerhunt while I was in Covington and here are some of the pictures of the pieces I threw and glazed. Now you have to remember that I really do not like glazing, much prefer wood firing . . . . I really like this sake set. The jar below is the same glaze but it just did not do well at all. The sake set was in the larger kiln at school and the jar below was in the smaller kiln. They just don't fire the same.

I was trying to do wax resist to get the white lines to show up but the blue ran into the white and it makes it look real messy.

Below is a picture of another faceted pitcher which was glazed in Bronze Green, but the color is very light. I think this one was in the small kiln, too. I'm getting better at this technique - it's from a clip on YouTube from David Cusick.

Well, that's all for today - hope you had a wonderful weekend!

New Class Pieces

Here are a couple of new pieces that I did at Bakerhunt. The faceted pitcher is something that I saw demonstrated on YouTube and took it to class to try. I didn't leave enough clay at the top to pull tall enough to cut the spout out and what was there I couldn't pull up enough to form a decent spout - I keep telling you, I'm still new at this and I've got a lot to learn. I saw a neat piece at class that had Bronze Green glaze with Licorice over it and I was trying to go for the same look. But the Licorice was gone so I used a Black glaze over this piece. It turned out really neat, but the way that it ran, where it did run, is drippy. I am a little disappointed, but it still looks nice.

As a comparison to the piece above, this is a tea pot and cups that I did in the Bronze Green last year. One of my faves.

Below is a pitcher that I threw. I rolled the handle with a paddle that had groves cut in it. The glaze on this piece is call Rhode Island Brick Red (glazed first, all over) and then Bone glaze over it. I did this combo on an earlier piece and it turned out completely different, but both of these glazes were new batches and I believe they had different fluxes. I'm still learning about that too! It's just not that neat of a combination as it was the first time around.

Well, I'm missing a kiln loading at Maple Creek Artisian Center today because I don't have any pottery ready to load. :-( But I have been busy at school and here are a few pictures of pieces we took out of the electric kiln this week.


Small pot with Bone glazing and Bright Red drizzled over it. This piece measures 4 1/4" H x 4" x 4".

This pitcher is glazed with Bright Red and appears to have blue flakes in it, although I did not add anything to the glaze. This piece measures 6 1/2 " H x 6 1/2" x 4 3/4"

This bowl is a small cereal bowl size and measures 2 3/4" H x 5 1/2" x 5 1/2". The outside is glazed in white and the inside is Bright Blue. I dripped white inside accidentially, so ended up drizzling more inside, and I'm happy with the results. The white inside almost looks like silver. I've been using this bowl a lot!

This jar is a tradgety. It's such a lovely piece and I was so excited about it. I throw this style jar a lot, but not with this type of lid. It's not exactly the color that I would have liked for it to come out as - it's a celedon. The lid is much darker in color than the jar which I dipped one side at a time. The over-lap is the prettiest color and more matches the lid, but makes an interesting stripe. The tradgety is - when I waxed the inside of the jar to receive the lid, I did not wax far enough down. The lid was fired on the piece and stuck by fractions. Just enough to keep me from getting the lid off. When we tapped on the lid to break it free, the lid broke and parts of it stuck inside. I was able to take a chisel to the inside of the pot and get the stuck pieces off, and was able to grind down some of the uneven sections of the lid, but I'm still going to have to super-glue the broken piece back. Oh well. It's a learning experience!

This piece measures 7" H x 4" x 4".

I have only been throwing pottery since the summer of 2007 when I took a class at Bakerhunt in Covington KY.

I love throwing, hate glazing and Wood Firing is awesome! The picture to the left is of a favorite piece I did - sort of a bottle with a foot cut out and handles. This was in the soda side of the kiln and turned out with a beautiful glaze.

Below are pictures of a few of my pieces that came out of the kiln that day (September 08):

Left: The mug (Malcolm's Shino inside, soda glazed outside), jug bottle (top-cut off), pinch pot candy dish (Shino glazed, soda side) and the blue winged thing (Med Lavender Blue glaze - wood fired) are all mine.

The candy dish was my first piece that I have let go - I gave it as a present to my best friend, Carolyn, on her birthday.


Right: Another "Winged Thing" with a lid and feet (wood fired, no glaze), a small bottle (one of the handles was knocked off before loading - soda side), the mug (pictured above) with Malcom's shino inside, jug bottle (shino glaze turned white) the bottle which is peeking out of the kiln shelf (pictured above), tall vase with lid (wood fired, no glaze), jar with lid (wood fired, no glaze), jug bottle (wood fired) with Albany glaze inside and bare on the outside, altered bowl with shino glaze.