Hi Everyone,
Living with an avid hunter and becoming a dandy venison cook inspired these bowls. 4 of the deer track chili bowls lived through my first return to the kiln inspired by my last course at JCC. Threw 12 more yesterday and of those 12, they all survived the trimming process. Now, we'll see who survives drying. Happy Holidays!
Donna, Thanks for Sharing, awesome, captivating pottery, doing some throwing today with a new kind of clay for me, very excited,
Ever in VA give me call!
Merry Christmas
Arlana
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You will be hearing from me.
Posting photos of our pots to this site is just too easy to let it slip, and I've let it slip for most of this year.
I'm going to do better.
So you will be hearing from me via facebook or email, asking you to post some photos of your pots. Details in that message.
It's sooo easy. Let's do it.
| Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010 Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Location: 39 North Moore Street NYCPlease join us on May 6 for wine, nibbles, and good conversation. As we support the ongoing relief efforts in Haiti.Donation 50.00 (100 percent tax-deductable) 3 great charities Make a Difference- www.firstgiving.com/emptybowlshaiti Doctors without Borders www.firstgiving.com/emptybowls Save the Children www.firstgiving.com/emptybowlsforhaitiGo online and donate before the event or bring cash or check to the event. *If you can't attend please consider a small donation to Make a Difference Non-Profit, they are doing a service trip on May 21 to rebuild an orphanage. Your donation will be used for supplies and material. Every dollar you give goes directly to a Haitian in need. If you are interested in the service trip to attend, please visit www.madww.org. They would love the helping hands. We look forward to seeing you at Cristina Dos Santos beautiful new design store. Each guest will take home a handmade bowl donated from the artists of Chambers Pottery. |
These are two of the little pots I made at the John C Campbell Folk School pottery course in October. The point was surface decoration using colored slips instead of glazes. Both of these are Laguna BMix clay, fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln. We mixed up about half a dozen different little buckets of slip, colored with different mason stains or oxides. The slip went on leather hard pots, which were then bisqued and then full-fired with a coat of clear glaze. We also put liner glazes on the insides of the pots that seemed to require it. The colors stayed pretty true to the original raw slip colors, except for the rosy pink which just went brown. The bowl is an asian looking theme with brushed on decorations. The tumbler is several layers of colored slip with lots of scraffitto (scratch-throughs). It looked like way overmuch when I did it, but the final result was just festive. |
First the bowl was bisqued. Then I put little pieces of tape on it and painted it with green underglaze. I peeled off the tape and filled in the spaces with different underglazes. Then I dipped the whole thing in clear glaze. I think it must have been overfired because the colors came out darker and more intense than I expected.
It's almost that time. Are you making your Christmas presents this year?
New York folks, Ingrid is interested in doing an Empty Bowls project. I will try to get her to post something here. Meanwhile, ask her about it.
More to come.
I will have some posts and/or photos up soon. Maybe this weekend.
Susiebell says she's going back to JCCFS this spring. Anyone interested?
Barbara says she's got some new pots that she'll post photos of soon.
Who else has some good stuff to share?
Just a bunch of sometime potters sharing tips, ideas, info and most of all, photos of pots.
