Prudence's Pottery

Yesterday was the last studio night for the winter session. Time really flies, it seems like the session had only started a few weeks ago. We won't start back again until mid-April, I guess I should use this time to come up with more ideas. Lately, I've been trying to use different techniques to decorate my pots. Last year, it was mostly the 3-colour collections. And after reading Robin Hopper's Making Marks, I came up with some more ideas. I'd tried them on a couple of my pots. The flower pot was sliced with a serrated knife (I meant to use a cheese slicer, but I didn't have one). It's made from mid-porcelain clay and glazed with Randy's red. The 2 small bowls were made out of mid-cal 0 clay and glazed with Randy's red and sponged on black glaze. Unfortunately, the black was probably too thin and doesn't really show.

Out of the 3 major steps (throwing, trimming and glazing) of making a pot, I've concluded trimming takes the most time! I took whole 3 hours of studio time to trim 5 pots. No time to make anything new or glaze anything. Well, I just have to wait until next week then. Only 3 times left for this session, time just flies... powered by performancing firefox

I've been making more pots these few weeks. I managed to finish a bag of white clay I am almost done my second bag (brown clay). I guess this is a really good start of the year! Here are some of my latest "creations": Randy's Red with white clay Harvest Gold with white clay Two small bowls: Mysterious Blue and Kermit on white clay Another one with Mysterious Blue and Kermit on white clay

It's Friday and another evening at the pottery studio. A couple of bisque ware (after first fire) came out but I didn't glaze them yet. I just spent the time to make new pots: a mug and 2 bowls.

YEAH! My first set of pots came out the kiln. Special thanks to Doug and Allison at the studio. There's my second sake set. I like the colour a lot, it's Harvest Gold. It has a real Japanese look to it. Last year, I've tried many different glaze combinations. Most of them are 3 colors: 2 glazes with overlap in the middle. I need to figure some new combinations for this year's collections. This is the first one I've tried...instead of 3 colors, this one only has two colours. The whole pot was glazed with Mysterious Blue then dipped a corner with Kermit Green. A little cup with Elusive Green with mid cal 0 clay 2 small bowls with Black all around and Mysterious Blue inside with mid cal 0 clay Mom's new soap dispenser with mid cal 0 clay

My glazed pots from last week didn't get fired! So, no new pots to show. But I was managed to glaze a couple more pots and made a couple more. Hopefully, I will have something to show next week.

After a month not making any pots, I am finally back to it. I managed to make 3 new bowls which surprised me quite a bit. Since, I usually take a few hours to get rid of the rust (just like playing golf :)) before any decent pots. I've also glazed some pots as well. One of them was the sake container in Harvest Gold. I can't wait to see that one ready. There is also the soap dispenser for my mom. It's Ruth's b-day. Happy Birthday, Ruth! Thanks for the delicious cakes! powered by performancing firefox