Post 212 Pot Sales

I have today updated the Pot Sales page to show clearly only the pots which are currently available for sale.

If you visit the Gallery page, towards the end of the photos, you will see some links to a series of other posts. These are the post pages where more recent pots can be found. The links were placed in the gallery to reduce the duplication of the photographic record.

I had to post this sweet little 220 mm oval from a recent firing - not yet posted. It is glazed in a heavily Titanium coloured butterscotch glaze with a touch of iron. Silicia, Ball Clay, Frit 4124, Dolomite and GB in equal parts, then 10 Ti, 6 Rutile and 1 RIO.

Cheers,
Happy Potter

Post 211 New Tanuki hot out of the kliln

I really wasn't going to make any more of these but I had one small slender Sargent left and so it was a matter of well why not, the others are doing really well. Perhaps it will be like my photography - the more pictures I take the more good ones I get.

 This is the front. It is about 320mm high from the intended soil line. With this one I've made some legs to go down into the media and help support the weight as well as give a little stability. Off-white stoneware.

 From the right.

 

 From the back.

 

 From the left.

And then finally with the tree mounted and potted up. It needs to extend another 75mm or so to fill the cavity and then at completion I see the top of the tree extending another 100 mm or so above the top branch of the tanuki. Two or three years and it will look very presentable.

Post 210 A little clay work

I've got back into doing a little clay work recently. For a while I've been wanting to make a new 'rock' pot as well as to use some decorative stamps on the walls of my pots to give a little surface texture.
Gary Jackson has been the king of stamps in the blog-sphere so I've unashamedly done the art world thing and uplifted a few ideas. 

First up the rock-pot. Here it is just finished and about 530mm long

 

 The high end is built up to conceal the generous bowl to contain the tree(s).

 This shows a little of the detail at that end. Like all pots the wet clay colour brings out the detail nicely. I'm intending to paint/colour the pot with underglaze colouring after bisque firing. I have a number of native Leptospermums which I want to plant as a group in the pot.

 Back in 2013 I made three that were more slab-like and coloured them using underglaze too. Post 131 and Post 133.

 This is a selection of stamps I made - just to see what would happen. Thanks Gary. These are just dried and not yet fired. They will be ready to go after a bisque firing.

And then a few pots, a series of small ovals of two different sizes:

 This one has fluted sides which I made just with a piece of impressed 10mm dowel. The shape and pattern has a classical feel to it. I'd like to make another with the fluting just short of the rim and then turn the rim in to make a little concavity at the rim.

 This pot has already dried. Its pattern is basket-weave. The idea is for the glaze to fill most of the texture but leave enough texture and glaze depth differential for a little visual interest.

 

 This one is done with a stamp that is just basically a raised X, but on repeat makes an interesting pattern.

Again one I've thought about for a while. Its been done with a simple ball shaped piece of bisque to produce the sort of patterning you get on a piece of beaten metalwork. Much of that detail will go with the glazing but it should produce an interesting irregular surface none the less.
Just filled the kiln with a bisque load. One big oval, 11 smaller ones and a bunch of stamps. So nice to work in three dimensions.