Clay Blog Review: April 2015

Time to look at the best pottery blogging from the past month! If you’re new here, you can find some of the most interesting or informative blogging by potters from around the world. Thanks for taking a look.

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The Can’t Miss

What were the “must read” pottery blog posts during the past month?

• lisa w.b. walker: Baskets
• Blog – Clay By Laura: “Changed For Good”
• Fine Mess Pottery: Run With It – My Attempts at Monoprinting
• Pottery Making Info » News: Link Roundup: NCECA 2015
• NCECA Blog: Anecdotal Evidence
• Alchemy of Clay: Simple trimming
• NCECA Blog: Ten Tips to Reduce Studio Waste

Process and Technique

What do pots look like during the process and how are they made?

• Tony Clennell: My sincerest apology!
• Blue Starr Gallery: Bells with Speckled Clay
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Glazing & Determined.
• Blue Starr Gallery: Large Bells
• Tony Clennell: When a woman asks!
• Whynot Pottery Blog: What I am doing on my Spring Break
• Patricia Griffin Ceramics – BLOG: Why my art career = little engine that could
• A Devonshire Pottery: Wassail and wedding pots
• Alchemy of Clay: Glorious Sunday with pottery
• Pinchpots: First week at STARworks
• Pixels And Pencils (and some paint!): Bisque – ing Blackhawks
• Mug Revolution’s blog: Chanoyu Workshop with John Baymore
• Blue Starr Gallery: More Bells, Clappers, and a Re-Do
• Pinchpots: Today’s work
• Zygote Blum: The Internal Self-Critic
• Kitty’s Granada Studio: The Big Lipstick Vase
• Pixels And Pencils (and some paint!): Go figure!!
• Lucy Fagella Pottery: Making Asparagus Trays
• New Day Pottery: Pottery class update and new work
• Karatsupots Blog: My favorite studio tool…
• riverwife: making whorls
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Weekend Trimming and Planting
• Barnbarroch Pottery: Back to work in a Changed world
• Tony Clennell: Bring it on!
• Alchemy of Clay: Oh what joy to throw things
• Jenny Mendes: Onward………
• Kyle Carpenter Studio Pottery: Firing Friday. #stcroixpotterytour #16hands #saltkiln #828isgreat #ncpottery
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Trimming
• Gary’s third pottery blog: how to WRECK or SAVE an afternoon….depending on how you look at it…
• Kim Murton: Thursday in the studio
• A Devonshire Pottery: Busy busy
• Liberty Stoneware: Clean Tools
• Gary’s third pottery blog: didn’t get eaten by alligators THIS time….
• John Bauman: Nesting
• Gary’s third pottery blog: double before and after…
• Tony Clennell: Tail
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Here’s The Scoop…
• Sawdust & Dirt: 420
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Before & After.
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Pretty Enough For Flowers
• Sawdust & Dirt: Video: Slip Inlay Process

• New Day Pottery: New Kiln – New Orders – New Work
• Hannah McAndrew: April Already
• meesh’s pottery: Good Earth at 505
• Hannah McAndrew: Films From The Wheel
• Kim Murton: Studio shots April
• Bridges Pottery Blog: Monotype printing – SNEAK PREVIEW
• Sawdust & Dirt: Pots on Scholarship
• Pinchpots: Last week of residency at STARworks…
• Sawdust & Dirt: Just Pictures
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Detailing.
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Another Bisque Kiln : Layer By Layer
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Class Demo : Not-So-Basic Bowls
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Bowl Demo : Continuation With Finishing Touches

Tips and Technical

How can I become a more efficient or knowledgeable potter?

• Hints and Tips for the Potter: 45. THE ARTIST AND THE ROCK
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Tinted.
• The PottersFriend’s blogspot: Should I make my own Pottery Glazes?
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: Rhyolite and Basalt Glazes
• musing about mud: technical tuesday: Derek Philip Au

Recent Work

Where can I see inspiring pottery?

• riverwife: makers market at True North
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop update TOMORROW, April 3rd!
• Brampton Pottery: New Bowls
• Phil Rogers Pottery, Rhayader, Wales: PR274 A Yunomi.
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Storefronts Installation in Seattle
• Little Brick House Clayworks: A Pot
• Patricia Griffin Ceramics – BLOG: Spring Chicken
• WALLYWARE: Nuclear Fusion, Evil Robots and Morning Coffee.
• Gary’s third pottery blog: teapot Tuesday, spring edition!
• Gaea Ceramic Bead and Art Studio Blog: Pushing Myself Into Spring.
• Gary’s third pottery blog: flower blossoms, inside anyway!
• Hobby Potter – Ceramic Artist Tammy Jo Schoppet Official Blog: Ep 8 HOBBY POTTER WEEKLY- Kiln Results…

• Kristen Kieffer: New & Springy
• part time pottery: And a firing…
• Gary’s third pottery blog: blue iris….
• Jose Maria Mariscal – Ceramicas Mariscal: Nuevo esmalte
• A Devonshire Pottery: wedding jug number 2
• Gary’s third pottery blog: first of the season…
• Whistle Creek: Short Post
• Whynot Pottery Blog: You did see my post about Spring break?
• Blog – Clay By Laura: So Far So Good
• Artworks of Johnson Tsang: bReAK tHE ruLeS ????
• Gary’s third pottery blog: it is with some relief….TEAPOT TUESDAY!
• Arryn Vogan Pottery: Square Dinnerware
• riverwife: tests with carved drawings
• Blue Starr Gallery: Carolina Jessamine & Georgia Red Maple or Floral Arranging with Natives
• Bruce DEHNERT: GT 2400
• Gary’s third pottery blog: oh what joy spring is….
• meesh’s pottery: Patience is a virtue?
• Blog – objective clay: Color Speaks Volumes
• Cynthia Cusick: Mint Juleps
• Gary’s third pottery blog: how to WRECK or SAVE an afternoon….depending on how you look at it…
• Cynthia Cusick: Wood-firing with Justin Lambert
• Patricia Griffin Ceramics – BLOG: New collection in the works: For the Harvest
• Avery Pottery and Tileworks: Spring Kiln Opening Preview!
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Three Jars From the Soda Firing
• Blog – Ron Philbeck Pottery: Spring Kiln Opening and Sale

• Alchemy of Clay: Red Moon window house
• Alchemy of Clay: Some butterfly mugs
• Fine Mess Pottery: Pink & Grey, Follow Up
• Kyle Carpenter Studio Pottery: #saltfired
• Gary’s third pottery blog: mug shot Monday: repetition!
• part time pottery: RED for Mother’s Day…
• Blue Starr Gallery: Bells Are Ringing
• Elm Studios: new works on clay
• this artist’s life: is this thing on?
• Gaea Ceramic Bead and Art Studio Blog: The Buzzzzz
• Gary’s third pottery blog: out of the dungeon and into the studio….
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop update TOMORROW and a new blog to check out!
• Rae Dunn … clay » clay.: auction.
• Jose Maria Mariscal – Ceramicas Mariscal: Efectos de las reducción
• making | jackie sedlock pottery: Shaker (re)vision
• Lucy Fagella Pottery: The Pottery Trail is this Weekend
• Kristen Kieffer: Graphic Clay & Electric Kiln Ceramics
• Artworks of Johnson Tsang: In Me
• Hannah McAndrew: I don’t know if you knew but…
• Gary’s third pottery blog: bowled over!
• meesh’s pottery: Name your pig
• Liz Crain Ceramics: 99 Cans of Beer On the Wall
• John Bauman: Getting Green Again
• Kyle Carpenter Studio Pottery: Unloaded the last firing for #16handsfloydva and ##stcroixpotterytour #letsdothis #saltkiln #saltfired #handmade #ncpottery #828isgreat #gocarpenters
• Rae Dunn … clay » clay.: salt + pepper.
• Alchemy of Clay: My latest house sculpture
• Patricia Griffin Ceramics – BLOG: Gifts truly made with love and attention
• Kim Murton: 3 so far
• New Day Pottery: Slips and Stencils

Thoughts

What can I ponder while making pottery and ceramic art?

• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Repost: What Ron Meyers said
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Trawling through Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life
• this artist’s life: inspiration
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Through the Looking Glass: Studio focus and the vortex of flow
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: “Stay on the f-ing bus!”
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Raising the bar and keeping out the riffraff: What Calvin and Hobbes have to say
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: If Steve Jobs had been a potter
• The Hopeful Potter: 20.04.14
• Tony Clennell: Let’s talk bout it!
• Blog – objective clay: Finding Balance
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: The bitter truth about professional standards in pottery (and art)
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: The Black Pearls of pottery

Interviews and Podcasts

What do potters have to say?

• Blog – objective clay: A Conversation with… Bryan Czibesz
• The Potters Cast: Peaceful Artist | April Noble | Episode 98
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Holly Hanessian on the significance of touch in the digital age
• The Potters Cast: Make Art and Money | Andrew Stephenson | Episode 99
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Jason Burnett, Sunshine Cobb and Doug Peltzman on defining success early in a career
• The Potters Cast: Business Plan for Art | Ariel Zimman | Episode 100
• The Potters Cast: Molly’s Marketing Plan | Molly Hatch | Episode 101
• The Potters Cast: The Dreamy Potter | Anderson Bailey | Episode 102
• Studio Break: Cody Hoyt
• The Potters Cast: An Artist for Royalty | Tineke van Gils | Episode 103
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Joe Bova on developing a deft touch in clay and the erotic nature of creativity
• The Potters Cast: Role of Artists in Society | Emily Schroeder | Episode 104
• Dawn Whitehand: Visual Artist: Sunday Studio Visit – Featured Shop: DeeDeeDeesigns
• musing about mud: movie day: An Interview with Tip Toland
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Special 100th episode: Guest Host Mark Shapiro interviews Ben Carter
• Blog – Function – by Jennifer Creighton: Featured Artist at Crafty Mart
• The Potters Cast: A Potter. A Surfer. | Patrick Johnston | Episode 106
• The Potters Cast: Growth of the Business | Thomas Aitken | Episode 105

The Rest

What do potters blog about other than pottery?

• Euan The Potter: Through the Looking Glass
• NCECA Blog: Recognitions & Awards
• JEANETTE MANCHESTER HARRIS: Book: Art and Fear
• NCECA Blog: Heidi McKenzie – The Basics of Business in the Arts

• Marian Williams Pottery: Lustre Workshop by the Amazing Johanna DeMaine!!!
• musing about mud: movie day: Jean-Nicolas Gérard: “The Potter’s Potter” film about French slipware potter
• meesh’s pottery: I am still here…
• Paine Falls……….: Still alive!! sort of…….
• Gard Clay Studios: Final Thesis Update
• Gard Clay Studios: OSU MFA Blog
• Tony Clennell: Internal fortitude!
• Tony Clennell: Kickin’ Ass
• paul the potter: Fired with new Enthusiasm.
• Tony Clennell: A Pope has been chosen!
• NCECA Blog: 2015 Conference Content Online: St. Croix Valley Session
• Sawdust & Dirt: FB Ceramic Index Update
• Bloomer Pottery Blog: The Evolution Of Tea Sets From Ancient Legend To Modern Biometrics
• NCECA Blog: #nceca2015
• Hughes Pottery: Pottery! Spring! Growth!
• NCECA Blog: social media panel online
• A Devonshire Pottery: The Love jug
• Tony Clennell: Long awaited cocktail
• Sawdust & Dirt: Show-Room
• Blog – Clay By Laura: Learning to Adapt
• Tony Clennell: R U Happy?
• Whistle Creek: I’m a Wooster Booster
• Tony Clennell: Meat trays and paper dollies
• musing about mud: movie day: The Clay Craft – A Documentary on Pottery

• NCECA Blog: The Dirt on Teaching & Learning online!
• Alchemy of Clay: A gallery talk, an opening, and something unexpected
• Fine Mess Pottery: Clay TV?
• NCECA Blog: Inside NCECA; Vol I, Issue 13 – The changing demographic
• JEANETTE MANCHESTER HARRIS: From the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts
• The Raging Bowl: 10 Years
• NCECA Blog: Join the Social Media Team!
• Tony Clennell: No where in the world
• NCECA Blog: Gerry Williams, Past Master
• Clay Club: Silicon Carbide for Potters
• Tony Clennell: I thought I knew how to throw.
• Rebecca Lyn Beaird – Blog: Post-Clay-Heaven
• good elephant pottery – blog: It takes a lot to make me nervous.

This brings our review to an end. Hopefully you found something that you like. Don’t forget to visit, subscribe, and leave comments for all these great bloggers. Thanks for reading this blog!