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Clay Blog Review: August 2012

September 3, 2012 by Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz Leave a Comment

Highlighting the best clay blogging of the past month. In case you missed something!

clay blog review - August 2012

clay blog review

Process and Technique

Behind the scenes views or explanations of how the pots are made.

  • Gary Jackson makes unique bowls, shares a demo, adds handles, platter demo x2, and gets even more obsessive.
  • Doug Fitch shares videos of cleaning up, handles, decorating and slip trailing:

  • Kyle Houser shows off some new forms: pour-overs (for coffee).
  • D. Michael Coffee cranks out 100 teacups.

  • Aaron Sober revises some pots.
  • Linda Starr has been making towers, plus a strip coiled vase and shares some glazing techniques.
  • Marian Williams is in the middle of a pod invasion.
  • Ben Carter decorates with stripes and zig zags and makes a platter.
  • Rob at Simple Circle works on platters and butter keepers and other items.
  • John Britt shares a video of Kyle Carpenter cutting a raised foot:

  • Raven Hill Pottery has some moon-themed wares.
  • Michael Kline answers a question every potter probably gets asked: How many?
  • Rose Maguire has been “playing” and churning out bird feeders.
  • Brandon Phillips is back in the studio, experimenting.
  • Joy Tanner explains “chasing plastic“.
  • Lori Watts shares what’s happening in the studio.
  • Phil Rogers shares a 40 minute(!) video: throwing demonstration.

  • Tracey Broome is back in the studio getting warmed up.
  • Liberty Stoneware is testing decoration techniques.
  • Varda Sharon Kramer continues work on the fossil series.
  • Ron Philbeck works on a slightly different decorating technique.
  • Ariel Bowman sculpts Chronos, a giant ground sloth.
  • Rachel Dorn works on some bike part sculptures and more bike part sculptures.

Tips and Technical

Bits of advice or recipes for the studio.

  • Glaze Recipe Sharing has a ^6 clay body and variation, ^6 Candy Apple Red, Kathryn Narrow’s Chun for ^6, Shaner Gold & Green ^ 9 – 10, ^4/5/6 White China Translucent, ^10 Malcolm Davis Shino and ^5/6 Emerald.
  • Carole Epp shares a slip casting resource and raku kiln building instructions.
  • Meagan Chaney gives a brief intro to glazes and re-posts a low fire crawl glaze with results.
  • Lori Watts shares a tip to help avoid cracks.
  • Amy Huacani shares a ^6 Floating Blue recipe.
  • Gertrude Graham Smith asks about pinholes and re-firing.
  • Linda Starr tells how she makes slip.
  • Liz Crain shares everything she knows about cold finishes.
  • Ron Philbeck tries wax resist with his slip decorating.
  • DirtKicker Pottery finds out how important glaze viscosity is and shares some glaze testing results.

Recent Work

Images and descriptions of finished pieces.

  • Rob of Simple Circle shows some new work including air whales.
  • Mariko Brown is Mixing Things Up with some wood and soda firing.
  • Dennis Allen shows off some new pottery.
  • Ron Philbeck shares a video of new pots and More New Pots:

  • The Createniks have some bright New Pots and Custom Order Dinnerware.
  • Round Rabbit has more jewelry pieces.
  • Whynot Pottery unloads the kiln.
  • Barbara Rogers shares some vases and other work and Wishing Plates.
  • Kristen Kieffer shows off New Work for 2012.
  • Hannah McAndrew has a nice collection of jugs.
  • Clay and Ginger shares a kiln opening video.

  • Trista Hudzik Reynolds has a nice series of Pots.
  • Kim Murton shares the latest haul.
  • Patricia Griffin has new work available.
  • Marian Williams shows a Glaze Firing Results Video:

  • Phil Rogers has a series of posts with new work.
  • Jeanette Manchester Harris shares some details of a racer.
  • Daria Claiborne has firing results.
  • Nicholas Bivins shares some images from the Farewell Show.
  • Jim Gottuso gives a preview of the Etched in Clay show.
  • Aaron Sober shows some of the best of the last firing.
  • Linda Starr places some Towers in the Garden.
  • Scott Cooper lingers over some fresh pots.
  • Kyle Houser is done waiting, check out the wood kiln treasures.
  • Kelly Lynn Daniels is now obsessed with soda fired work.

Thoughts

Heavy thinking related to pottery, the arts, or creativity.

  •  Liz Crain avoids the Merely Clever.
  • Carter Gillies shares Olympic thoughts, the value of pottery and sets sail on Creative Seas.
  • Ben Carter explores Csikszentmihalyi’s Great Idea and asks Can you teach creativity?
  • Scott Cooper comes up with questions that every potter could/should ask themselves.
  • John Baumann makes a connection to That Silver Stuff:

Nobody would ever buy a losing card if that silver stuff didn’t cover it. And I might not have pursued my passions with such abandon had I known how little was my likelihood of succeeding at them.

The Rest

Everything else that a ceramist or potter might be interested in.

  • Melissa at the Ceramic Shop gives a preview of the KilnLink.
  • Potter Jo talks about the clay collection.
  • Karen Mahoney tells How to make tent and canopy weights.
  • Linda Starr shares notes on a Gallery Panel Discussion.
  • Lori Buff describes some of her favorite apps.
  • Scott Cooper trades superstition for science:
Quite recently — just in the last few years — I’ve made a more deliberate commitment to developing science-based techniques (e.g. analytical thinking, experimental method, deductive reasoning, math, probability, etc.) This has vastly improved my technical foundation and, in turn, enabled me to make better pots.
  • Patricia Griffin sets some guidelines for donating art.
  • Tracey Broome gets Plastered (making molds!) and is finished with juried shows.
  • In response, Dennis Allen warns of the other extreme when it comes to shows.
  • Jeanette Manchester Harris explains How to put a Plastic Wine Glass on a Ray Gun (in case you ever need to know) and shares some Logo Experiments.
  • Luke Langholz recounts his time at Art Sail and Beyond!
  • Butterfly Farm Pottery gives a heads-up about a mass production Copycat.
  • Gary Jackson assigns “The Masters Quiz”
  • Rachel Dorn reveals the Pre-School Bell Project.
  • Controversy! In the ceramics community?! John Britt asks for support in the Penland Boycott.
  • Emily Murphy reviews the RZ Mask.
  • Carole Epp shares a link to the Field Guide for Ceramic Artisans and a video showing how to Make your own wheel:

  • Ivan Wozniak offers some tips on How To Teach Children about Pottery.

Interviews

  • Brian Jones shares Jonescast with Heidi Preuss Grew.
  • Paul Kowalchuck of Studio Potter Archive sits down with Debora Meltz.
  • Ben Carter shares a podcast with Carola Zee.

And that concludes the Clay Blog Review for August. Thanks for reading! And, as always, if you feel something was missed, leave a comment below so others can find more good reading from the pottery blogs.

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