Clay Blog Review: May 2014

How was your May? I hope your ideas were fresh, your kilns were hot and your clay was just the right consistency. I can tell you that the clay blogs were active! Hopefully you didn’t miss anything from your favorite pottery blogs but if you did, you can probably find a link below. Of course, if you missed anything from previous months, you can see the preceding Clay Blog Reviews.

 The Can’t Miss

• Marian Williams: How To Make Mugs All The Same Size!
• John Britt: Glaze Software and the Pink Azalea
• Ben Carter: Michael Simon and Ron Meyers on the TotRCR podcast
• Karatsu Pots: Processing Clay and Ash
• Pottery Making Info: Last Month’s Clay Blog Review!

Process and Technique

• Gary Jackson: Before. During. After.
• Gary Jackson: Textured Slab Vases
• Hints and Tips for the Potter: 39. THE NAKED CLAY ROUTE AND BEYOND.
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: Korean Potter from Ichon
• musing about mud: technical tuesday: Ceramic artist Richard Notkin demonstrates slip casting
• Johnson Tsang: A Broken Bowl
• Hannah McAndrew: Work this week
• Patricia Griffin: Pattern play
• Whynot Pottery Blog: Loading up the workhorse
• Liberty Stoneware: Record Kiln Firing
• musing about mud: technical tuesday: Pulling a handle with Tom Coleman

• davidmorrisonpike.com Blog: Spring nobori firing.
• Alchemy of Clay: Pots on pedestals
• good elephant pottery: The joy of having a studio to all to yourself.
• musing about mud: movie day: Icheon Master Hand: Kim Seong Tae
• Clay Club: 1000 Bowl Challenge
• BIG HILL POTTERY’S BLOG: What a week that was!
• Hannah McAndrew: The Ups and Downs of Pottery
• davidmorrisonpike.com Blog: Spring nobori firing, cup holders.
• This Week At St. Earth: spare us the cutter
• davidmorrisonpike.com Blog: Mushroom cups.
• New Day Pottery: One Image / Two Interpretations
• Whistle Creek: Actual Pottery Related Post
• Tony Clennell: Finnegan’s Wake
• musing about mud: movie day: Jugtown & Mark Hewitt Pottery
• Shambhala Pottery: Nice Jake Allee video on making a darted textured pitcher
• This Week At St. Earth: the sacred geometry of chance
• Joel Cherrico Pottery: Looking Back on my Pottery Trip to Prairie Fire Pottery, Beach, North Dakota
• meesh’s pottery: An Interesting Commission
• Blue Starr Gallery: Serving Bowls and Platters

Tips and Technical

• A Love Affair With Clay: How To Make Mugs All The Same Size!
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: New Pots, New Recipes
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: Glazed Limestone Rocks Produce Exothermic Chemical Reaction
• FetishGhost’s Secret Studio: Bloated…
• A Love Affair With Clay: Shino Glazes! How To Make Your Pots Look Marvelous!
• Clay Club: Glaze Software and the Pink Azalea
• musing about mud: How to Calibrate Your Glazes for Consistent Results | LISA NAPLES
• DirtKicker PoTTerY: Glaze Test Tiles are Fired
• Carol Clarkson Pottery Blog: Cutting Clay with Cookie Cutters
• Karatsupots Blog: Processing Clay and Ash

Recent Work

• FetishGhost’s Secret Studio: Done Watching the Devils Dance
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: My work in Manchester, NH
• homefry sketchbook: May Flowers
• the modern pottery studio: atelierstella: There will be some lovely spring fresh new…
• jackie sedlock pottery: houses
• Gary’s third pottery blog: how to scare the hell out of your guests….
• New Day Pottery: Preparing for the Crozet Arts and Crafts Show
• CleanMud: Horse Hair Raku
• This Week At St. Earth: Sale 28
• judi’s kiln: A Little Taste of What is To Come…
• WALLYWARE: Cosmic revelations in the coffee mug gift market.
• Karatsupots Blog: A Week of Good Pots
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop update TOMORROW, Friday May 9th!
• Hannah McAndrew: The Firing Results

• FetishGhost’s Secret Studio: Passing Through
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: New Sculpture
• Barnbarroch Pottery: Pots in May
• Ellison Bay Pottery Studios – Pottery and Other Related Thoughts: Bowls. Bowls. Bowls.
• this artist’s life: happening now, coming up
• Gary’s third pottery blog: Teapot Tuesday number 5: “what’s that thing up there?”
• Blue Starr Gallery: Spring Firing
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Teapot Tuesday – Flower Pot Teapot Set
• Gary’s third pottery blog: “it was all yellow…”
• Jose Maria Mariscal: Más mates
• Blue Starr Gallery: Unexpected Results from the Kiln Gods
• Liberty Stoneware: Kiln Results Headed to Show!
• Jose Maria Mariscal: Oxido de Hierro y Niquel
• Whynot Pottery Blog: Working the set
• The Smart Cat: Bottoms Up
• Alchemy of Clay: Glossy green with cherry trees
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Teapot Tuesday – Tea For Two
• weddwould: Sun Child
• Whynot Pottery Blog: Fillers or tuckers
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop Update TOMORROW Friday May 23rd!
• adriana christianson: #MarkitFedsquare THIS Sunday !
• Blue Starr Gallery: Strawberry Jubilee
• Gary’s third pottery blog: after a messy week: centering with a side of gluten-free blueberry cake
• Daria Claiborne Pottery: new work…cherry blossoms
• Daria Claiborne Pottery: and in the mean time, different work….
• Blue Starr Gallery: Keep the Light On
• The Smart Cat: Majolica Monday
• homefry sketchbook: I’m All Clay and Bones
• Pots and Tea: Gems twenty two and twenty three
• Kitty’s Granada Studio: The Universal Symbol of Peace
• Kim Murton: process-half heads
• Gary’s third pottery blog: ever had….?
• Brampton Pottery: Out of my system
• Brampton Pottery: Another firing
• Peter’s Pottery: Winter, bowls, butter dish, cups, teapots, and a painting!
• Dirty Girl Clayworks: photo shoot

Interviews

• Brian R. Jones: Silvie Granatelli
• Paul Blais: Carole Epp
• Paul Blais: Ceramic Showcase Portland Oregon | Episode 4
• Paul Blais: Lori Buff
• Paul Blais: Lisa Naples
• Ben Carter: Michael Simon
• Brian R. Jones: Richard Hensley
• Jen Allen: Matt Repsher
• Ben Carter: Ron Meyers

The Rest

• support your local potter: The Build
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Where to Display the Price Tag
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Soda Kiln : Back Wall Beauty
• Gary’s third pottery blog: STOP THE MADNESS: Mugs and me more about them than you could possibly want to know
• Whistle Creek: Spring Pottery Fair Review.
• Tony Clennell: First Prize
• Brian Harper: Mini-Manifesto
• Shambhala Pottery: Here’s a nice little video
• NCECA Blog: Set the Table! Artist Highlights (part 4)
• Whistle Creek: Stuck
• Teaching/Craft: Tread Lightly
• Lucy Fagella Pottery: Pottery and Poetry
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Best of Season Two on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Minnesota Pottery Tour : Day One
• Carol Clarkson Pottery Blog: Rubber Stoppers for Pottery
• Carol Clarkson Pottery Blog: Pottery Tool Starter Kit
• Blog – Emily Schroeder Willis: Alphabet Cups
• The Raging Bowl: An Anxious Introvert in the Workplace
• Alchemy of Clay: blogs are the best!
• Tony Clennell: Damn Fine!
• A Love Affair With Clay: The Harding Black Collection: A Treasure!
• Pictures and few words: Ceramics Monthly: Spotlight
• good elephant pottery – blog: Three in a Row: The Report
• Combat Medic to Ceramic Artist…a Disabled Veteran’s Story: Studio Fruit Basket Upset
• support your local potter: Nearly there!
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Sketching and Cleaning
• Blue Starr Gallery: Virtual Studio Tour
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Artists, Critics, and Potters
• Gard Studios: Day 14: road trip tips and tricks

And that’s everything I could scrape together. If something was left out, let me know. Maybe next month there will be more videos and images…

Thanks for reading!