This is the first pot out of the new LLutt.  It's the combo of Frogskin over Magic.  When I refire it in the bisque, it should turn nice & red.  jhp

Just received John Britt's new book, "The Complete Guide to Mid-Range Glazes" in the mail today!  I can't wait to sit down, relax , and read!!

juli

I have found myself from time to time scoffing at some nice pots that were dipped in two overlapping glazes. The technique is seemingly taught to every beginning pottery student on their first day of glazing instruction. The fact is that some very interesting results can spring from the technique, given glazes that are attractive on their own, and that are suited to layering one over the other.

Yesterday I was very pleased how Glazing 101 technique worked for me with 3…

I was very informed about ceramics by a sections of Josiah Wedgewood's Kiln Journal written while developing their original Jasperware, "Trial 136 Success!"  It's sad to see this.

Stoke museum's collection of pioneering potter, described as 'unparalleled' by Unesco, due to be sold to meet pension debts.

Wedgwood plates from the series Variation…

"Wired" magazine has an interesting article on the new way to throw or sculpt clay, featuring Dutch artist Oliver van Herpt.

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/a-huge-clay-filled-robot-that-replaces-the-potters-wheel/#slide-id-1413601…

Hello do you have a location for safe glazes cone 6 and cone 10 . Need help thanks richard f. crown

Setting things up the week before our vacation is an excersize in working backwards. On Monday, a day early, I got my last order out the door to my wholesale client. I feel like I have bought a small bit of time getting it out early.  I can leave work basically finished and covered for the duration but I have a window of time to get  it to that stage. Colanders need to be drilled and cleaned up and can then sit and dry while I relax on the beach. My week of teaching is a bit scrambled since…

Well a mixed day in all.  This morning I  tried to start a bisque firing but my kiln was totally unresponsive.  So I called Rob Battey, who knows all (well all about kilns) at Northwest Potters Supply and discussed the symptoms with him.  We decided that a new Board for the Controller was needed and so it is on its way.  After this it was a lesson with Lola who is teaching me all of her china painting techniques and tricks, and after more than 30 years of china painting she knows a lot.  So…

There are many uses for changing the cooling speed of ceramic glass.

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/material-science-flexible-display/



In new PCM displays, the inner material is a substance made of silicon’s heavier chemical cousins, germanium, antimony, and tellurium. The two states of this material, known as GST, are actually two different phases of matter: one an ordered crystal and the other a…

I cannot clutter this wonderful webpage with my pictures. So if anybody want to see more of them and at the same time i will share the place we sell the other half of our production. Look into the "Wholesalecrafts.com

Our ID# is 24939 the password is my wife's name "Karin".

Has anyone used this type of flexible PBI / Kevlar blend glove?

http://www.superiorglove.com/extreme-dragon-pbi-kevlar-high-heat-gloves

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BHMATOW

We've used a typical pair of yellow Kevlar gloves with wool lining to unload hot kiln shelves,…

The tile below is the way I used to seeing rutile react in a glaze.

We have a new bag of "Light Rutile" from Laguna which means it's calcined.  Unfortunately it leaves glazes opaque and uniformly whitened, as if we had added titanium dioxide.

The mesh of this new tan rutile is supposedly the same as dark rutile, so I'm at a loss to explain the profound difference.  Unfortunately rutile is a natural material, so some variation can be expected, but this is far too…

Check out the new Coyote glazes.  3 macros, an Aventurine & an Iron Red.  All slow-cooled......jhp

Thank you for accepting me into your group.  I hope to be an asset. I will try to update you over the weekend about my adventures with Simon Leach and his workshop.....from the mountains in PA. It should be interesting.

If you want to have speckled glazes where the specks are generated by particles in the glaze, you should not ball mill or sieve the glaze.

What if you want to spray these glazes anyway? The conventional spray gun will be clogged quickly!



Solution: the good old vaporizer !



Two tubes of about 1/4” at a right angle and compressed air of about 50-60 psi will do (you can even use your lungs! but you need a lot breath!)



I had an old pistol for inflating tires…

Many have tried to duplicate Alisa Clausen's test tile of Cassie's Marsala without success.

After making a chemically identical version which was opaque from excess iron, I've made a chemically identical version without the addition of 6.6% red iron oxide.

At this point I'm confident that Alisa Clausen replaced the high-iron American produced Redart Clay with a substitute containing less iron.…

So this was my first attempt at a chemically reduced copper red of my own making.  Still fine tuning the formula & application, but was pleased with this first effort.  Many things still to try to work towards the perfect look!  jhp

''A lot of his friends didn't get it,'' admits Mandy Walker of her father's collection of contemporary ceramics. Her father was Professor Alan Walker, the celebrated biophysicist from the University of Sydney whose special interest was plant membrane transport. He died in October 2013.

Walker was a man of many passions, including art (especially Monet and Cezanne), music (Haydn), sailing and photography, although his love of ceramics may have been lost on some.…