It has been one year since my Creative Artista pottery wheel arrived. With the arrival of the wheel last year, it brought back my creativity and desire to work with the clay medium. During my childhood clay was a very good way for me to pass time. I used to do some wheel stuff when […]

January 3, 2006 January 8, 2006 I don’t really have much to say about these, mostly the images speak for themselves. I am fairly happy with my work on these over the past few days and I hope to be able to further my skills to create even more elaborate and interesting pieces.

I had some fun tonight with my clay. I once again got pissed off at the earthenware because it is just simply stiff if you dont have 2 hours to spend working it over, so I did 1 earthenware piece followed by a terra cotta piece. I was impressed with how well the terra cotta […]

Here it is, my first non-pregnant lipped pot, fresh from its glaze firing in the kiln. All of my other pots of a similar shape have a “bulge” that makes them look kind of strange, this is the first one that has been perfectly centered and avoided such an occurance.

I don’t know that I have ever been as nervous in my time with ceramics as I was on Friday. It was finally time to do some glazing, something which sounds as simple as a trip to Krispy Kreme, but in reality for me was much more strenuous. I think I was more nervous for […]

Tonight I was spinning away at the wheel when after completing my 3rd piece I realized something: I don’t have nearly enough bats. Why is it that I have my bats in such short supply? I guess I should find an additional method for temporary storage of wet pieces (or finally give in to what […]

Here are three of my latest terra cotta clay works. I started from a single large ball of terra cotta (about 8 pounds), started working it, then realized it was a bit clumbsy and broke it in half. The first half became the bowl. During the creation of it I removed quite a bit of […]

Yesterday’s firing went great. The kiln declared Cone 04 at 1947° F after firing for 6 hours, 48 minutes. I opened the kiln about 2 hours ago, and unloaded it, nothing broke and I have verified that the pieces will hold water. Has anyone noticed that the last few blog entries have sounded like scientific […]

The first firing of the kiln was concluded at around 7:00am this morning after the kiln reached a holding temprature of 1944 degrees farenheight. That is about 4 degrees above the normal specification for Cone 04, but I guess thats what the kiln’s “intelligent” controller decided was required for reaching the proper saturation in the […]