I have attained my tallest height yet in ceramic work, this piece stands at 34″ in height.

All of my UNCC ceramics work, plus a set of 27 bowls I made at home, have now been posted to my ceramics website at http://www.claymentality.net/index.php?pagekey=work&RecordDate=2006-12-17 There are 148 pieces from UNCC this semester.

In the ceramic studio glaze room I have somehow managed to go from being assigned one shelf, to now using three shelves. I have always had the shelf I was assigned, but a few days ago I claimed another shelf that wasn’t used (a top shelf) for my tall stuff and then today I find […]

On June 7, 2006 I opened a new blog on my ceramics website. I failed to originally mention it here, consider this your announcement. The blog is of a more technical nature and is located at http://www.claymentality.net/blog. The new blog will contain the more technical aspects of my ceramic work, but I intend to still […]

Last night I completed a variety of throws, including two of an unusual height. The pieces were at 9.5 and 10.5 inches when they were removed from the wheel. After trimming one was at 10 inches and the other was just below 9 inches. These are my first throws to be above 8 inches in […]

On Tuesday evening my new electronic balance (Ohaus CS2000) arrived, the final piece of the puzzle for making glazes. I began with 5 simple recipies, of which I used 4 and then made my own 6th. Test Glaze #1 (not used) – converted from a lead-based recipe, but not attempted in this batch. Test Glaze […]

It brings me great joy to announce the completion of my new ceramics website, Clay Mentality. This is my formal return to having a web presence. Several years ago as I slowly let more things out of my life, I gave up on having a personal website. A personal website without passion is nothing more […]

Image of ceramic eggs made for Easter 2006, by me. Image by Chris

I just opened the lid of the kiln from my most recent glazing. It was a load of 4 pieces, 2 of which glazed well, and 2 of which didn’t do so great. One of the not-so-good pieces is a bowl that I really had high hopes for. I really like the design that i […]

During the past few days I have been playing with glazes, and now there are a few pieces that are complete that I am ready to share images of. Here they are http://www.disturbingthoughts.net/gallery/index.php?folder=/Ceramics/20060329/ I have typically only enjoyed the wheel side of ceramics, but I am starting to really find creativity in the glaze proccess. […]