Here are a bunch of Mayco layering tests(112 to be exact)  What a pain, but a lot of good info!  jhp

Heart Cup, White clay, Laguna 66 with Cream  glaze(Clayscapes), Coyote Purple-Blue at base and Laguna brilliant sunburn on the top.  …

Tried some new glazes from Mayco, Really organic, Cone 6 Electric, but almost looks wood fired, Really sweet if you like an organic look.…

HELP...!  I can use some help with glaze trouble I am having. I am putting Standard Iron red Over Standard Cream. These are both new glazes for me and The Cream is Going on quite chalky, and the Ion red is dry cracking and lifting off... I am Pouring the cream on and a dip or the ion red... Is there anything I can add to make this work better?  Thank you…

Last year we searched for "Glaze Crystals" for a granite look or other crystal glazes and found the industry supplier in Maryland.  They melt into larger patterns at ^6, pictured below at ^06.

Tangerine glaze crystals in a yellow mason stain glaze are shown below inside a "Chippendale furniture" looking piece I made using porcelain over paper-clay so the porcelain cracks.…

Vee's Tenmoku Gold fired to Cone 6 then cooled, between 1,800F and 1,500F, at 185F per hour on the left, 100F in the middle, and 50F on the right.

Has anyone come close to the look of Alisa Clausen's ^6 "Cassie's Marsala" where she uses MOK-623 frit?

56.6 Red Art Clay

20.0 Frit 169/MOK 623

9.4  Nepheline Syenite

9.4  Talc

5.7  Bone Ash

6.6  Iron Oxide-Red

Using the analysis for the Johnson Matthey Frit 623 I made a chemically similar glaze, but it's missing the glassy look produced by a pre-melted frit.…

My wonderful husband is building me a new and improved spray booth.  The first one worked great for years but had some "bugs".  This one uses an old shower stall, a whole house fan, and a basement utility pump.  Ran water through it today and it works great!  Cost is around $200 to $500, depending on what materials you can repurpose.  Bob is willing to answer questions if anyone is interested in building one.…

Dear Potters,

I'm looking for a magazine article called The Power of Yes. It featured a photo of a woman standing in front of her homemade dome- shaped kiln. The article inspired me because the potter spoke about what it was like studying ceramics in the early 70's, when women still wore skirts while digging their class clay from the fields. I'd like to share it with my sculpture teacher and her class. Any similar bio's would also be helpful :)

Thanks! …

Hi -- first time on the blog with two questions:  how safe are SH glazes for functional pots; and where can I find cone 6 firing schedules for SH glazes?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Jim

RebelMouse brings in the second largest amount of traffic to my Etsy, next to Twitter.

After setting up my RebelMouse, my Twitter feed and Pinterest, among others, automatically post to my RebelMouse page, along with an image of the work I'm sharing. RebelMouse then becomes a graphic "business card"--a quick snapshot of who you are and what you're about. Using #hashtags on twitter, whenever I post links to my Etsy, results in regular hits on my RebelMouse page and referrals to…

I would like to share a trick that I figured out for trimming pieces with uneven lips.  If you've seen my curly bowls. You can imagine that it might be hard to trim.  But I figured out that I could throw a thick cylinder to fit on the inside. I usually slant the lip so that there is more surface area touching the leather hard pot.  Then I use that rubbery stuff that you put under a rug to keep your rug from slipping.  You can find it in a hardware store.  I place that between the cylinder…

     Here it is only 3 days till school starts, and I have been in teacher mode all summer.  This year I agreed to teach their first ever ceramics class for summer school, so I tried to come up with something new for the shortened classes.  I had three weeks to take the students through pinch, coil, and slab, with a project in each method. The first group did a pinch bowl, a coil mug with a face on it, and a slab plate on a hump mold. The second group did a pinch bowl, a coil mug and saucer,…

I've been extending my 'NEST' series and working on some exciting new bird feeders this week, they are great fun to throw! So was delighted to see fellow cone 6er Joe Shaw's Lovely form and delicious glaze when I logged in this morning.

If you havnt checked out Joes work yet I urge you to do so...Lovely work! 

Heres a pic of the progress so far, these ones have been slipped with porcelain and incised, just waiting for the 'dags' to dry before brushing of and applying the Iron…

 A while ago, some of the buttons on the control panel on my little Skutt KM-818 stopped working.  I asked around & ended up sending it to Bartlett to have it repaired.  Just this last week I was able to get it all put back together(I upgraded to an S-tc at the same time).  Well, instead of repairing my old board, those nice boys at Bartlett sent me a re-furbished 700 board.  Now how cool is that!?!  In the menu, you can set it to prompt you for a pre-heat time every time you do a Cone…

If you've worked in print graphics, you're familiar with Pantone. The Pantone color system solved the problem of chatting with clients, across distances, about colors. Color reference cards in hand on both ends, you could finally be sure you were both on the same page...literally. In addition, Pantone provides software used to calibrate graphics programs and monitors, so that everyone involved in a project is seeing the same colors projected on their screen. Most of us, with various monitors…

So after doing some tests, here are the 1st couple real pots.  This is how they came out of their first glaze firing.  Next they will be re-fired in a bisque & then they will be sprayed with the wash & re-fired in another glaze firing.  I will post pics after each firing to document the process.…

Does anybody know what the story is with Eric?  He has not posted on his blog for over a year now & I thought he was a member of this group as well, but can't find him in the member list.  I have been using some of his wash recipes with great success & was wanting to ask him what other directions he had gone with them before I start experimenting more with them.  Any info would be helpful.  Jeff

We have finalized our distributorship with the major ceramics supplier in our state, Georgie's Ceramics. It's taken nearly a year but they have been great to work with. What it means to us is enough of a discount to re-sale in the three county area.