Clay Blog Review: October 2014

Another great pottery blogging month has passed us by. Fortunately, all the must-read posts have been compiled below. But if you found something great that didn’t make the list or you know a clay-related blog that I should be reading send me an email. Or better yet, link it in a comment below.

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The Can’t Miss

• Pottery Making Info » News: Clay Blog Review: August 2014
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Bowl Demo… continued…
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Leave No Plain Bowl Behind
• Clay Club: Glaze Thickness or Specific Gravity
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: Rainbow Iridescent OilSpot Glazes

• Clay Club: Joey Sheehan throws a large platter
• Marian Williams Pottery: Firing Plates- The Good News Frim The Bad News
• Blog – objective clay: Just Trying…

Process and Technique

• lisa w.b. walker: WORD, a Dedham Square Artist Guild Artist Challenge
• CleanMud: How To Make A Chawan
• Hints and Tips for the Potter: Tea Bowl with Landscaped- Rim
• Whynot Pottery Blog: Fall brings in cool and foggy mornings
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Twelve Bowls. Twelve Ways.
• part time pottery: Two days of greenware
• Clay and Color: Working on Sgraffito
• Shambhala Pottery: Patia Davis video

• Frogpondsrock…: Another Pozible Update. Titled, “THERE IS NO PLAN B”
• Blue Starr Gallery: Animal Spirit Jars
• GretaMichelle Joachim: Pieces Of My World: Update
• part time pottery: Dinner Sets?
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Bowl Demo… continued…
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: New Mugs. New Cylinders.
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Leave No Plain Bowl Behind
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Lots Of Stamping. One Step Closer To Lots Of Mugs.
• Blue Starr Gallery: More Driftwood Handled Baskets
• Barbara Dunshee: Whim Vessel by Barbara Dunshee
• Kim Murton: making progress finally
• Blue Starr Gallery: Kiln Fillers, Stocking Stuffers
• Little Brick House Clayworks: Labelling harvest produce with ceramic labels
• Clay Club: Team Centering (Gabriel Kline and Anja Bartels)
• Clay Club: Anja Bartels (pulling porcelain handles)
• Steven Colby: potter: i don’t give a damn ’bout my reputation…
• Clay Club: Joey Sheehan throws a large platter
• Clay Club: Travis Winters Demostrates how to make an Eye
• Nicholas Bivins » Blog: Industrial Consulting
• Clay Club: Heather Spontak carves porcelain
• littlemahoningcreekpottery: Potters tour time Oct 18th-Oct 19th 10-5
• Blue Starr Gallery: Christmas Tree Luminaries
• Clay Club: Lee Wolf demonstrates stem on a goblet
• Clay Club: Glazing Cups
• Blog – objective clay: Just Trying…
• Blue Hen Pottery: Rock’ n’ Roll baby
• Joel Cherrico Pottery: Cosmic Pots: The “Goldilocks Glaze”
• adriana christianson: Porcelain
• Clay Club: Terry Gess (Haywood Community College)

• Dan Finnegan Pottery: Murder in the Library
• Sue Pariseau Pottery: Ornament Extravaganza
• Blue Starr Gallery: Tea Bowls, Mugs, & a Cat House
• Nanban ceramics: 2nd noborigama firing.
• Alchemy of Clay: Terry Gess from Clay Club
• Butterfly Farm Pottery: Lump of Clay to Finished Mug

• Future Relics Pottery Blog: Two Things You Need To Know About Pottery
• Blue Starr Gallery: Another Teabowl, Mug & old Barney Bed
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Another Batch.
• Dawn Whitehand: Visual Artist: Sunday Studio Visit: Exploring Texture
• Paine Falls……….: And now the studio……..
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: More Mugs
• DirtKicker PoTTerY: Using Produce Bags to Help Pottery Dry Evenly – Pottery Making Tip
• Alchemy of Clay: Ready, set, go…
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Wheelthrown Ornaments : Getting Ready
• Steven Colby: potter: you might win some but you just lost one
• Blue Starr Gallery: Drape Mold Bowls, India Ink, Water Color
• riverwife clay: pod vases and she-oak drawing
• Blue Starr Gallery: Chemical Experiments

Tips and Technical

• Fine Mess Pottery: Great Idea!
• Clay Club: Glaze Thickness or Specific Gravity
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: Rainbow Iridescent OilSpot Glazes
• MARSHALL COLMAN FIRED UP: TO ADD A FIXED PERCENTAGE BY DRY WEIGHT OF STAIN TO A GLAZE SLOP OF KNOWN RECIPE
• Marian Williams Pottery: Firing Plates- The Good News Frim The Bad News
• Stardust Pottery Blog: My fix for a section of the kiln running hot.
• Fine Mess Pottery: Yellow Copper Lusters, Beading Glazes, and Other Special Treats for Raku
• musing about mud: technical tuesday: How To Make Terra Sigillata with Kip O’Krongly
• Clay Club: Feldspar and Highwater Clay in Asheville NC
• musing about mud: technical tuesday: Super Quick Terra Sigillata and Horsehair and Feather Raku | MARCIA SELSOR
• BPracticalPottery’s Blog: Techno-ology: Flippin Feldspar, The times they are a changing
• Stardust Pottery Blog: My Fix for My Blistering Pots

Recent Work

• Butterfly Farm Pottery: That Little Old Mug Maker… Me
• Rae Dunn … clay » clay.: sneak peek.
• Jenny Mendes: Girls n’ cats
• riverwife clay: market! new tea beakers, bowls and the odd jug
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop update TOMORROW, Friday October 3rd!
• Whynot Pottery Blog: Here you go!
• Dirty Girl Clayworks: going round
• Amy Handmade Ceramics: New pots
• Clay and Color: Sgraffito Rocks!
• trista hudzik pottery: large serving bowl
• Gary’s third pottery blog: don’t forget: open studio weekend!
• Whynot Pottery Blog: The moon was full,
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: OilSpot Teabowls

• Cynthia Cusick: Bobtown Art October Wood/Soda firing
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Shows Coming Up, Shows Coming Down
• Tony Clennell: Pimpin’ my ride
• ANN TUBBS POTTERY STUDIO: I have had two pieces accepted into the Michigan Ceramics 2014 Exhibition!
• Alazan Ceramics: Poetry in Ceramic: a Joint Ceramic Show & Sale from Amy Henson and Allee Etheridge
• Kyle Carpenter Studio Pottery: more from the #saltkiln
• part time pottery: Glaze-Bisque-Glaze
• adriana christianson: NEW to #ONLINESTORE
• Jenny Mendes: together forever
• Pottery, Sculpture (and a few poems):
• Alchemy of Clay: Sugar & Creamer
• groszceramika: Nowe, jasne.
• part time pottery: And… another firing….
• Alchemy of Clay: A vase of a different shape
• Peter’s Pottery: Exhibition at Koru Gallery, Dunedin
• meesh’s pottery: Time Flies
• Jose Maria Mariscal – Ceramicas Mariscal: Cristales secundarios
• paul the potter: Cider Beakers
• New Day Pottery: Never too early for Christmas shopping
• jeanette zeis ceramics: Wholesale vs. retail. Pie plates. Thoughts on business.
• Gary’s third pottery blog: in case you were wondering what I was doing….
• The Rabbit Muse: Shop Update TOMORROW, Friday the 24th!
• good elephant pottery – blog: A Decade-Long Quest
• groszceramika: Kubki ciemne 2014.
• Alchemy of Clay: Last Tailgate market 2014
• Hints and Tips for the Potter: 42. ‘THOSE AUTUMN LEAVES’
• meesh’s pottery: The Old and The New
• Claying Thoughts: Terracotta Lamps for Diwali Festival
• Clay and Color: Loving the new textures.
• Karatsupots Blog: Chawan for Japanese Tea Ceremony
• Alchemy of Clay: White, red and green

Thoughts

• musing about mud: movie day: Conceptualism VS Reality
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Does Pottery have genres?
• this artist’s life: okay with okay
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Rhyming and reasoning
• Clay Club: Artists run amok
• Clay Club: Notes on Creativity
• Clay Club: Artist Run Amok (final post)
• Clay Club: Final Word (Aritist Run Amok) Carter Gillies
• Tony Clennell: Cookie Cutter Potters
• Whistle Creek: Been a While….
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: “Potters’ Pride” and the ‘A’ game
• Rachel Dorn Ceramic Sculpture: Failure
• Fine Mess Pottery: To That Beginning Student
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Almost cut my hair……
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Bonzo was here
• BPracticalPottery’s Blog: Questions: Talking about Art

Interviews

• The Potters Cast: The Lucky Artist | Linda Bloomfield | Episode 47
• Brian R. Jones Ceramics: ep.#58 Kate Bingaman-Burt
• The Potters Cast: Art as a Business
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Vicki Grimma on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
• The Potters Cast: Inside the Mind of An Artist | Jeremy Nichols | Episode 49
• The Potters Cast: From Frustration to Falling in Love | Laura B. Cooper | Episode 50
• jenallenceramics: Molly Hatch: Potter of the Month
• The Potters Cast: The Reinvented Artist | Holly McKeen | Episode 51
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Ferment: Tony Marsh, Adam Field, and Wesley Hicks on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
• Sawdust & Dirt: Episode 4- Nick Joerling on the Sawdust and DIrt Podcast, Part 1
• The Potters Cast: The Obsessive Artist | Mary Fox | Episode 52
• Brian R. Jones Ceramics: ep.#59 Jeffrey Hatfield
• The Potters Cast: An Artist Unplugged | Kate Maury | Episode 53
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Patsy Cox on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
• The Potters Cast: The Pull of Art | Sarah Blackwell | Episode 54
• BPracticalPottery’s Blog: Foodie: Ferment on Tales of a Red Clay Rambler
• Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Carter Pottery: Andrew Baseman on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
• The Potters Cast: The Struggle of Marketing for the Artist | Maria Dondero | Episode 55

The Rest

• meesh’s pottery: Staying Positive…
• Clay Club: Dirty Girls are the Best!
• Stardust Pottery Blog: Pottery Genealogy
• Clay Club: RIP Norm Schulman (Penland Tribute)
• Joel Cherrico Pottery: Local Blend, National Trend: Millstream Arts Festival 2014
• Carol Clarkson Pottery Blog: Nylon Fiber Clay
• Clay Club: Cousin Sal Pranks Aunt Chippy at Ceramics Class
• Nicholas Bivins » Blog: A hiatus, and a change in status
• this artist’s life: turn it off
• MARSHALL COLMAN FIRED UP: LEARNING POTTERY: ART SCHOOLS vs APPRENTICESHIPS
• FetishGhost’s Secret Studio: Cup: The Intimate Object X
• Gary’s third pottery blog: holy CATS you REALLY must see this 🙂
• Teaching/Craft: A Love Letter to ‘No’
• NCECA Blog: Registration is OPEN!
• Art by Fuzzy: 2014 Middlebury Fall Festival
• Dawn Whitehand: Visual Artist: Sunday Studio Visit: Playing with Product Photography
• Karatsupots Blog: Kickwheel Conversion Finished
• Joel Cherrico Pottery: American Craft Council, “A Potter’s Journey: Writing a Business Plan”
• Anna’s Ceramics: Facebook Saturday Shelfie
• Jenny Mendes: Monday Motivation Talent vs Skill
• jeanette zeis ceramics: Me and Jack Torrance
• MARSHALL COLMAN FIRED UP: CERAMICS EDUCATION IN BRITAIN
• Shambhala Pottery: Another home run

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Thanks for reading! Thanks to all the great clay bloggers for all their hard work. Keep it up! Only two more months to decide the top blogs of the year!