Now I can fly, but I can’t figure out how to land. I am finding that now that my pot-throwing technique is improving, I am still having difficulty in the area of removing a finished piece from the wheel head. I have considered going back to bat-throwing, but at this time I feel like I […]
Nothing too fancy, but I like it. Straight across from the wheel, typical observer point of view This is more from the point of view as I see a piece when it is on the wheel. The splash pan is visible in this shot, I am a little messy, but I have seen worse. This […]
This piece almost didn’t happen. It started off as an overly moist ball of white stoneware that was sliding on the wheel. By the right combination of forces the piece stablized and snapped into PERFECT CENTER. That means that a hand pressed against the roating side wasn’t moving and neither was the one placed on […]
Here are some of my most recent creations, they are still quite wet and haven’t finished drying/shrinking yet. They should be ready in a few days. These are dry, they came off the wheel a few days ago and have been almost completed. I think I would still like to dip some of them in […]
Here it is! The 3rd throw on the wheel, and it came out decently. It isn’t perfect, but im happy with it.
My perfectionistic nature finally caused me problems tonight. In an attempt to create a ceramic piece on the wheel tonight I managed to make an almost complete piece collapse into absolute ruin. The piece was taking the shape of a bowl, and getting to be almost completely symetrical and smooth, except for a small defect […]
I just completed my first thow on the new wheel, it went fairly well. I had minor issues getting started on the new wheel during the centering phase. The bat came off of its mount (I guess I didn’t have it secured well). I considered removing the bat all together (as is reccomended when getting […]