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Yay! I just finished step 1 of my sheepdog plate. The carving. Now it’s going to dry sloooowly - and then into the kiln!

The dog will look a lot more like a sheepdog once I glaze it with black and white.

This is a new experimental process for me (combining my tile and printmaking techniques for a plate). Can’t wait to see how it turns out.

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An unfired clay plate. It is decorated with a carving of a dog chasing 3 sheep
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I'm happy to have the roof of the house carved out, with the three sheep. 
All that is left is the sheep dog, who is the star of the show.

There is a sweet spot between being too wet and too dry and right now, I'm on the borderline of being too dry. So I am going to Wrap it up in plastic again and hopefully rehydrate the clay so that I could do some more work.

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A work in progress photo of a carved clay tray. There are trees and a house in The background. Three sheep on the right side of the design
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Ok kiddos! I’m starting to make mistakes (see sheep feet on far right) so it’s time to call it a night.

this is a silly amount of work for a sandwich plate, but It’s been fun carving with you today. Thanks for joining me. Hope to finish the carving part tomorrow!

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An “almost “ finished carved pottery tray. You can see a sheep dog chasing 3 sheep in the design. The top right sheep has a patch over its front feet because I made a dumb mistake.
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Stoneware bowls with dipped and splashed-on glazes. Sometimes I wish the glazes came out the way they are pre-glost firing, but the transformation in the kiln is part of what makes pottery-making interesting, so I'll see how these will turn out.

My first Mastodon post. 🫣 A work in progress feels appropriate!

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Ceramic bowls with splashed-on glazes, work in progress.
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On my not so WTF project, the failed glaze that began to look like Oribe ware to me, one has come out of the oven. There's a tiny bit of crawling, but I can rectify that because it needs to go back in with a final coat of food-safe glaze on top.

And, of course, a curious Dora. #Pottery #ceramics

Natural lighting photo of a small, green, and white, with black painted flowers hexagonal bowl on a black and white mosaic table. With a black and white cat's head in the top left hand corner of the shot.
Artificially lit image of the same bowl, sitting on a white tile.
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Meanwhile, I made up this recipe for Lana's Chun - a beautiful low fire recipe that seems interesting. In the recipe it is tinted with a small amount of copper carbonate, but I split the recipe in half, added the copper to half of it, and a tiny amount of cobalt oxide to the other, just to see what happens.

And also, I made some tiny little bowls with a few different colours of terra sig, to be bisqued, in preparation to see how they go with the glaze I just mixed up.
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Four white test tiles in a handmade rack and three small shallow bowls in very pale greens and blues
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Continuing on with my WTF experimentation, inspired by Mary Fox's book. I forgot to take a picture of the orange terra sigillata tiny plate once it came out of the kiln after the oxide wash and the borax went onto it. The oxide was was nice... But I was too timid with the borax sprinkles. In any case, onwards. It how has a base transparent glaze applied (the white), and then I interfered with the leftovers of it, and added some stains to the glaze mix, and did shit. #pottery #ceramics
Small plate with layers of glazes applied on top of each other in an abstractish pattern of swooshes and dots.
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"Fire-flame vessel: An exquisitely crafted 4,500-year-old pot from a mysterious culture in Japan

Archaeologists aren't sure why prehistoric people in Japan made these elaborate vessels decorated with flames.

This ceramic vessel was made in prehistoric times on Honshu, the largest island in Japan. This type of pot is known as a fire-flame vessel ('ka'en doki' in Japanese), due to the stylized flames on the rim. Although other examples of these pots exist, the one in the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is the largest and best preserved of its kind. But no one's quite sure what its purpose was."

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What I learned is that this is all about the body. It's about how things feel, about letting your hands learn how, in their own way. It's not about being smart or technically adept. There are things to learn, there are some helpful rules, but you will find those out in your own time, when you need them, along the way.

The sheer enjoyment of creating something out of mud is not to be minimized. It calms the mind. You can't check your phone (dirty hands). For an hour, life is simple #pottery

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I have a Shimpo banding wheel. It was about 65 Euros. There are other brands, probably just as good, but do not buy a cheap one online without knowing how solid it is. You need a really heavy one. If you get a cheap one that only spins a few times before stopping, you'll be so frustrated. So when you go down to your pottery supply place to buy the clay, ask to feel the wheels. The good ones will last a lifetime. #pottery #ceramics 7/ potterycrafters.com/the-best-b…

The Best Banding Wheels - Pottery Crafters

The Best Banding Wheels - The Shimpo-Nidec Banding Wheel - The US Art Supply Banding Wheel - The NATGAI Banding Wheel - And the Falling in Art Banding Wheel
Marie (Pottery Crafters)
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So what do you need? To begin with, a lot of what you need you can find in your kitchen.
1. Clay - I suggest white earthenware because it's cheap, easy to work with, and easy to recycle.
2. Sponge, string, trimming tools, an old credit card for smoothing. Old pillow case for rolling out. A rolling pin from your kitchen. Used plastic bags.
3. A banding wheel. This is really the only expensive purchase because you want a good, heavy one with really good centrifugal force. #pottery #ceramics 6/
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If you are interested in getting into pottery, and find the whole prospect daunting, I heartily suggest hand-building. It is often looked down on by the ceramics community, but that is stupid. Some of the most beautiful ceramic objects in the world are hand-built. It's not that I disdain the electric potters wheel, but my experience with handbuilding gave me so much knowledge and know-how that I would go on to use on a potters wheel. #ceramics #pottery 6/
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I still love pinch pots and coil building. It is the technique I use more than any other and most of my work - which you might think is thrown on a potters wheel - is actually made on a banding wheel.

I have the most amount of control. I am not driven by an inexorably turning wheel. I determine the speed, the amount of water, etc. (hand building uses far less clay and far less water). #pottery #ceramics 5/

Sugar bowl and lid made entirely on a banding wheel.
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But the irony is that it was my work at home, on a banding wheel, with pinch pots and coils, that actually gave me a sense of confidence on the electric wheel.

There are about 5 hand-building potters - Japanese and Korean - who gave me a really fluid way in to handling clay in a way I could understand. I will follow this post with a collection of links. Some don't have subtitles, but it doesn't really matter. It's what they are doing with their hands and tools that is the education. #pottery 3/

Hand built drinking cup by Kiraku
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When I moved onto the #pottery wheel, it was a steep, steep learning curve, and just getting my hands on it once a week meant that my progress was very slow. It's only after almost a year that I feel confident in slamming a ball of clay down on the wheel and knowing I can turn it into a fairly creditable pot. And still tend to throw things too thin for earthenware - which is what I work with. I still leave too much clay at the base. But yes, now, I can absolutely make you a vase. #ceramics 2/
Spiral scored white bisque vase
Classic sake bottle
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