Clay Blog Review: June 2014

So I looked up from scanning the pottery blogs and noticed the year is half over! It has been a solid 6 months for the clay bloggers and there has been so much great information shared. (Check out the stuff from May!) Below you can see all the great links from June:

The Can’t Miss

All the posts that you have to see!

• Neil Estrick Gallery: Big Planter
• musing about mud: technical tuesday: if you hate dipping tongs…
• Fine Mess Pottery: Embedded Glaze Decoration
• Blue Starr Gallery: Slump Molds for a Song
• musing about mud: technical tuesday: surface decoration with foam cut outs
• Karatsupots Blog: Making Furniture
• This Week At St. Earth: Soldner on
• Artworks of Johnson Tsang: In One Piece II
• NCECA Blog: Converting Waste Paper into Paperclay and Paperslip
• NCECA Blog: Using Wax Resist for Layered Glazes – Mark Cole in the Process Room

Process and Technique

Ways to make pottery or photos of pots in progress.

• Shambhala Pottery: Nice decorating idea using resist stamps
• Neil Estrick Gallery: Big Planter
• ang design blog: the barn
• Paine Falls: Busy Week……
• Rae Dunn: in my french studio . . .
• Hannah McAndrew: Devon in June
• Tony Clennell: Hells Bells
• This Week At St. Earth: have heart, my dear, and we’ll run for our lives
• Tony Clennell: In the pink
• Acorn Pottery: shattered
• Lucy Fagella Pottery: Spring at Lucia Pottery
• Anna’s Ceramics: Euan Craig’s visit to Sydney
• Cynthia Cusick: Process
• Fine Mess Pottery: Embedded Glaze Decoration
• Bridges Pottery Blog: IN Progress
• Kim Murton: Nice batch of Flatheads
• musing about mud: technical tuesday: Classic American Butterdish

• meesh’s pottery: Together We’re Better
• Rae Dunn: a good impression.
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Raku Firing Spring 2014
• support your local potter: Making
• Shambhala Pottery: Very good Nick Joerling video clip
• Claying Thoughts: Scribbling with Coils
• Whistle Creek: This Little Piggie
• meesh’s pottery: Super size me
• a potter’s archive: Warren MacKenzie
• Hannah McAndrew: A Flurry of Films

• musing about mud: technical tuesday: surface decoration with foam cut outs
• Kim Murton: 3 Stages- Greenware, Bisque, Glaze cone 6
• This Week At St. Earth: Soldner on
• Combat Medic to Ceramic Artist: Lady Liberty
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Variegated Pottery
• Rachel Dorn: A few things started
• A Love Affair With Clay: Altered Pitchers or Jugs
• This Week At St. Earth: resolve
• musing about mud: movie day: Kalabouyou Island: Pottery Making
• Euan The Potter: To every thing there is a season
• Artworks of Johnson Tsang: Out of the Rim
• Tony Clennell: More and more
• Paine Falls: Studio stuff first……
• adriana christianson: The importance of play

Tips and Technical

Pottery tips, glaze recipes, other useful data.

• Shambhala Pottery: Cone 6 soda tests
• Fine Mess Pottery: Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow
• The PottersFriend’s blogspot: Pottery Materials-Potters You’ve Never Had it So Good!
• NCECA Blog: Converting Waste Paper into Paperclay and Paperslip
• A Love Affair With Clay: Cone 6 Glazes – Trialing Coyote Glazes
• createniks: Crazy Solutions

Recent Work

Photos of finished pots.

• DirtKicker PoTTerY: Word Props
• DirtKicker PoTTerY: this way or that way?
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: A potter’s work is never done…..
• Gary’s third pottery blog: the IDEAL
• maya makes things: My favorite glaze combination on porcelain
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop update TOMORROW Friday June, 6th!
• New Day Pottery: Glazed pieces for the Boardwalk Art Show
• Jose Maria Mariscal – Ceramicas Mariscal: Ultima hornada
• Whynot Pottery Blog: The small stuff
• weddwould: finito
• Alchemy of Clay: Experimenting a bit
• Centered – Focus on Clay and Creativity: Torso Pots
• Centered – Focus on Clay and Creativity: To Decorate or not to Decorate that is the Question?
• Gary’s third pottery blog: my mugshot Monday… new favorites!
• The Smart Cat: Majolica Monday
• riverwife clay: kids’ mugs
• Alchemy of Clay: Clay Flowers One
• Alchemy of Clay: Clay Flowers – Two
• Brampton Pottery: Preparing for Earth and Fire
• Gary’s third pottery blog: pitchers: career choices involving baseballs and clay
• Jose Maria Mariscal – Ceramicas Mariscal: Molibdeno
• groszceramika: Nowe kubki z uszami.
• Phil Rogers Pottery: PR 171 Wood fired Yunomi.
• Rough Ideas: #13 summer solstice 2014
• Alchemy of Clay: After the glaze firing
• Phil Rogers Pottery: PR187 Ash glazed Guinomi.
• Rae Dunn: étude de la bouteille.
• Gary’s third pottery blog: a posse of pitchers…
• Fine Mess Pottery: Looky Looky! Unloading Day!
• Fine Mess Pottery: A Few of My Favorite Things
• Whynot Pottery Blog: Summer has come to town
• Patricia Griffin Studio: Labor of love
• Alchemy of Clay: Plates Cat-altered (Cataltered, caltered?)
• Rae Dunn: un. deux. trois.
• Gary’s third pottery blog: mug shot Monday!
• Fine Mess Pottery: The Flip Side
• City by the Sea Ceramics: Teabowls from the last three years
• Patricia Griffin Studio: Getting over these blues? Not!
• slip resist: Recent directions
• Combat Medic to Ceramic Artist: How To Train Your (clay) Dragon
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop update TOMORROW Friday the 27th!
• slip resist: Sidestep into cadmium
• Pottery by Inge Nielsen: Kiln unloaded for the first time

Pottery Interviews

Potters talking to other potters and creative folks.

• Joel Cherrico Pottery: The Potters Cast, Podcast Interview with Paul Blais, and Summer Pottery Shows in Minnesota
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Diana Fayt on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
• Brian R. Jones Ceramics: ep.#52 Mo Phillips
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Carter Gillies on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Live from NCECA: Virtual Clay on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast

• jenallenceramics: Kristen Kieffer: Potter of the Month
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Live in Berkeley: Whitney Smith on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
• Brian R. Jones Ceramics: ep.#53 Red Yarn (Andy Furgeson)
• The Potter’s Cast:
  • Michelle Katz
  • Justin Rothshank
  • Shino Takeda
  • Brian R. Jones
  • Jennifer Creighton
  • James Derosso

Thoughts

Heavy thinking about pottery, art and creativity.

• Carter Gillies
  • The future of pottery
  • Apologies for art
  • The World Cup and your art
  • The moral decay of art through a soccer lens
  • Intention is for Amateurs

The Rest

Interesting bits that didn’t fit in the other categories.

• Liberty Stoneware: Memorial Day Pottery Reflection
• Patricia Griffin Studio: Turning versus throwing: what?
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Wood Kiln Loading with Roger Jamison
• musing about mud: movie day: The Clay Craft – A Documentary on Pottery
• City by the Sea Ceramics: Dividing Work and Home Life by Getting Organized
• Carol Clarkson Pottery Blog: Knife for Clay
• BPracticalPottery’s Blog: Ayumi Horie: Instagtam
• musing about mud: movie day: The Innocent Glaze – Anagama Kiln

• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Google Helpouts
• DirtKicker PoTTerY: Throwing Pottery Standing – Foot Pain
• Bridges Pottery Blog: It’s all about the box
• Tony Clennell: How can it be?
• Claying Thoughts: NGO Workshop
• Sawdust & Dirt: Creatives Conundrum
• Scott K Roberts Pottery: New Phil Rogers Video
• Bentham Pottery: Bentham Pottery Kiln
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: I Like Big Bowls and I Cannot Lie
• Joel Cherrico Pottery: American Craft Council, Web Exclusive, “A Potter’s Journey: The Beginning”
• Whynot Pottery Blog: working out the time line
• Clay Club: Gerstley Borate at Laguna
• meesh’s pottery: Getting Noticed
• Karatsupots Blog: Clay/Centipede Storage
• Liberty Stoneware: Traveling Potter Part I

And that concludes your reading list from the month of June. Thanks for taking a look.

Did I miss anything? The new system is getting more streamlined but it’s possible that something got lost. If there is something that I left out let me know in a comment or an email. Or if you know about any other great blogs that I don’t know about, send them my way!