Clay Blog Review: May 2015

More great pottery blogging this month. I’m always impressed with the amount of information shared. Thanks for all your hard work pottery bloggers!

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Now, on with the blogging!

The Can’t Miss

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

• Blog – objective clay: Making a Six Sided Bowl
• Pottery Making Info » News: Clay Blog Review: April 2015
• Claying Thoughts: Journey of a Coil Pot
• Blue Starr Gallery: Sheetrock equals Pottery Drying Boards
• Matthew Blakely: Shrinking and vitrification
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Temoku Glaze Inlay
• DirtKicker PoTTerY: I’ll start with throwing a few mugs
• Blog – objective clay: Slip-Slab Construction: Bone Dry Building

Process and Technique

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

• Blue Starr Gallery: City of Rocks
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Fifty Pounds Of Fun
• Jenny Mendes: We are all one
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Bird of Prey, Stooping, Child of Mountain, Nesting
• NCECA Blog: Robert Lawarre in the Process Room

• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Stamping Vases
• musing about mud: movie day: Mari Ogihara
• Claying Thoughts: Terracotta Sun Planter
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Stamped Bowls
• Hughes Pottery: Frenetic, Frantic and other big F words
• Sawdust & Dirt: Focus
• Hobby Potter – Ceramic Artist Tammy Jo Schoppet Official Blog: Ep 13 HOBBY POTTER WEEKLY – Mosaic Guestbook Pt.1

• musing about mud: technical tuesday: Grayson Perry makes a pot on twitter
• ang design blog: more news soon…
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: A Return To Glazing
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Bisque Kiln Load
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Tiny Touches
• Barnbarroch Pottery: Lots to do and not everyone is helping
• Blue Starr Gallery: Firing Bells & Bell Parts
• Kim Murton: first couple of days to be cont’d
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Let The Glazing Begin…
• Hobby Potter – Ceramic Artist Tammy Jo Schoppet Official Blog: Making Mosaic Guestbook – Clay – Stanislaus Artist Open Studio Tour
• Sawdust & Dirt: What’s Next?
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Stacked & Packed
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Spoons : Glazed & Prepped
• Blog – Clay By Laura: Made From Scratch
• New Day Pottery: Ciel Collaboration and Pottery Classes
• meesh’s pottery: We Still Make Pots
• Tony Clennell: Small feet
• Claying Thoughts: Video: How to make a Clay Rose
• Kim Murton: Ready to slip paint-process photo’s
• musing about mud: 3D printing @ Northcote Pottery Supplies with Alterfact
• The Cloud Pottery: Crack on
• Tony Clennell: No mistaken!
• Hobby Potter – Ceramic Artist Tammy Jo Schoppet Official Blog: Making Teabowls – A Practice – Ep 15 Hobby Potter Weekly
• part time pottery: when it rains….
• Tony Clennell: Brother where art thou?
• groszceramika: Czas leci.
• Blog – Clay By Laura: Spontaneous
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Making Work in CORE Gallery
• Anna’s Ceramics by Anna Ryland: New Fruit Bowl
• musing about mud: movie day: Art of Craft | Jinny Whitehead
• Dawn Whitehand: Visual Artist: Exploring New Sculptural Forms
• Claying Thoughts: Handmade Ganesha Sculpture
• Tony Clennell: The Supervisor
• Pixels And Pencils and a lot of clay!: Big girl panties….
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Last Raku at Palmer Hall
• Kim Murton: Painted w/Slip not fired yet
• weddwould: A long time between drinks…..

Tips and Technical

How can I become a more efficient or knowledgeable potter?

• Clay Club: Rice Hull Ash
• Clay Club: Grinding your Bottoms

• Clay Club: Reglazing Pots
• Marian Williams Pottery: Tips For Mixing Glazes In A Bucket – Without The Mess!
• Alchemy of Clay: Safety in firing kilns for clay and glazing
• Diving into the clay: brooklynmuseum: In addition to working directly on objects,…
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Spoon Supports
• Clay Club: Refiring on the side or side firing
• Clay Club: Barium copper blues
• DirtKicker PoTTerY: Getting the rehydrated clay workable

Recent Work

Where can I see inspiring pottery?

• Whynot Pottery Blog: May Tiles
• Gary’s third pottery blog: blossoms
• Learning to be Fearless: Family Collaboration Time (Again)
• Alchemy of Clay: To cradle the light
• Zygote Blum: Capital Clay Invitational 2015
• Zygote Blum: Akar 2015
• Peter’s Pottery: Wood Fired Kiln Revisited… Becky’s first Firing. The Road of Life has “bumps”, “potholes”, and other unpleasant things!
• Arryn Vogan Pottery: Spring Trunk Show
• part time pottery: Mom’s Matte Red
• flyeschool.com: May 6th 2015
• Alchemy of Clay: Celebrating abundance
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop update TOMORROW, Friday May 8th!
• Fine Mess Pottery: $1 Shipping Sale
• Jenny Mendes: Show time!
• Clay and Ginger: Some new dishes with cats. Some are going into my etsy shop and…
• Gaea Ceramic Bead and Art Studio Blog: Playing…
• Karatsupots Blog: Karatsu Yakimon Matsuri
• Gary’s third pottery blog: a tale of two types of vases…
• Liberty Stoneware: On the Farm, New Pots, and Motherhood
• Around and About with Bulldog Pottery: AKAR Yunomi Invitational – opens May 15, 2015
• paul the potter: So whats been going on @ Barrington Pottery
• Daria Claiborne Pottery: May 2015 firing
• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Squaring Pots
• Gary’s third pottery blog: pretty flowers and nightmares….
• Blue Starr Gallery: Always Room for Improvement
• WILLOW AVENUE POTTERY: One big project done….
• Clay and Ginger: Kiln opening day…top shelf for now. Its gardening time so…
• Gaea Ceramic Bead and Art Studio Blog: Every Time a Bell Rings….
• Alchemy of Clay: Archaic or Neuvo-Primitive
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: ‘Tis The Season For Berry Bowls
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Here’s The Scoop… Quite Literally…
• GretaMichelle Joachim: Pieces Of My World: Friday Up!
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: New : The Quite White Collection
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: A Couple Colors Too
• meesh’s pottery: It’s always something
• Blue Starr Gallery: Multicolored Experimental Results
• Down to the Earth Pottery: Results and Friends the Final Four Weeks
• Sue Pariseau Pottery: So…I’ve Been Thinking
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop update TOMORROW, TUESDAY May 26th!
• Rae Dunn … clay » clay.: black and white . . .
• Gary’s third pottery blog: if it is Wednesday, it is BOWL DAY
• Jose Maria Mariscal – Ceramicas Mariscal: Reducción de dioxido de titanio hierro rojo y dioxido de manganeso
• Clay Club: Side Fired Pieces (from Youtube video)
• Alchemy of Clay: More pottery and some magic afoot
• Blue Starr Gallery: Garden Bells or Wind Chimes
• meesh’s pottery: Luminaries
• Tony Clennell: Teach to learn
• andrewwiddis: Simple black bowl.
• Whynot Pottery Blog: Saturday at the end of May
• Hints and Tips for the Potter: 46. OPEN STUDIO
• andrewwiddis: Mug.
• andrewwiddis: Mugs.
• Jenny Mendes: Pottery for Nepal

Thoughts

What can I ponder while making pottery and ceramic art?

• MARSHALL COLMAN FIRED UP: BUT IS IT ART? BUT IS IT COPYRIGHT?
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: BREAKING NEWS: Scientists confirm Objective Quality in Art
• Diving into the clay: Does craftsmanship matter anymore? – Burnaway
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Why craftsmanship is like grammar
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Lift a finger in support of artists
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Cinderella artists
• this artist’s life: beautiful mistakes
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: “Less theory, more work”
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Teach like a bandit
• MARSHALL COLMAN FIRED UP: THE UNITY OF THE ARTS
• DirtKicker PoTTerY: Saying “sorry no” to custom orders

Interviews and Podcasts

What do potters have to say?

• The Potters Cast: A Passion for Clay | Susan Halls | Episode 107
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Jim Skutt on the history of Skutt Kilns and the development of internet-based kiln monitoring
• The Potters Cast: Social Media for Art | Guy Mitchell | Episode 108
• The Potters Cast: Pushing the Limits | Larry Elardo | Episode 109
• The Potters Cast: A Fermenting Artist | Jeremy Ogusky | Episode 110
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Cheyenne and Nigel Rudolph on archeology, pottery, and performance art
• The Potters Cast: Setting Intentions | Sunshine Cobb | Episode 111
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Paul Blais on working through illness and podcasting
• The Potters Cast: Risk Taking | Ted Secombe | Episode 113

The Rest

What do potters blog about other than pottery?

• Tony Clennell: Mind Blowing
• Joel Cherrico Pottery: Cosmic Mug Giveaway, Laughing Squid Feature, and Mainstream Art Ambitions
• Pic Works Pottery: Recent work & Packing and Mailing Communion Sets
• Tony Clennell: How many masters does it take to glaze a jar?
• Whistle Creek: Spring Fair
• Blog – Clay By Laura: Every Pot Tells A Story
• HaldeBlog: Studio update
• Fine Mess Pottery: Also, Water is Wet!
• Fine Mess Pottery: Adding Promo Codes to Paypal Buttons
• Tony Clennell: Universal language
• Fine Mess Pottery: Lazy Evening
• Tony Clennell: My mouth’s a jar
• Anna’s Ceramics by Anna Ryland: April Autumn Holiday
• Down to the Earth Pottery: Penland Highlights the First Four Weeks
• Tony Clennell: Pottery High Fashion
• Tony Clennell: Over the moon
• Alchemy of Clay: Tiny pots estimated cost
• Future Relics Pottery Blog:
• Blog – objective clay: What Lies Around the Bend
• Jenni Ward: Inspiration: 5 Ways to Kill Your Dreams
• Tracey Broome: Emotional roller coaster for sale
• NCECA Blog: Creating Community Among Residents
• Marian Williams Pottery: Follow The Clay-A Clay Addiction: Camaraderie Amongst Potters/Sculptors
• Tony Clennell: Antonio Whassa matta for you?
• Dawn Whitehand: Visual Artist: Sunday Studio Visit – Workshopping Mosaics
• Around and About with Bulldog Pottery: Introducing the Cousins!
• Liz Crain Ceramics: Desperately Seeking These 53 People!
• musing about mud: movie day: Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces

• Kristen Kieffer: Standing to Throw & CM Spotlight
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Golden Ratio in Art, or Bogus Bias in Brains?
• MARSHALL COLMAN FIRED UP: POTTERY THROWERS OF STOKE-ON-TRENT
• Leslie Farin: Who Else Wants to Sell Their Artwork?
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Minnesota Pottery Tour : Fun As Always
• The Potters Cast: Build the List | Paul Blais | Episode 112
• Pottery by Lisa: Pain, Pregnancy and Pottery
• Marian Williams Pottery: Setting Up A Great Pottery Studio!
• pots and pieces: NCECA in Review (Providence 2015). Friday 26th March.
• NCECA Blog: Throwback Thursday: 2010 Conference Closing Lecture, Malcolm Davis
• Learning to be Fearless: A Visit to the Heath Ceramics Factory

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