Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
10.31.2008
Happy Halloween
Categories: studio

Some “spook-tacular” fun at the studio!… guaranteed to make you smile!

2 Comments

Merryn Krenz

 December 19th, 2008 9:55 am

Dear Uncle Gary-
How did you make the pumpkins? I like the faces so much. Are you coming for New Year’s Eve?
Love
Merryn
Gary

 December 20th, 2008 1:46 pm

Dear Merryn…
The pumpkins were thrown on my potter’s wheel with orange terra cotta clay. Once they were kinda stiff, I pressed them to make the irregular shapes & grooves, then added the clay stem & warts. Check out my blog post on September 21st, 2008 to see the pumpkins before they got faces. Lastly, I carved the faces in with a sharp knife, opened the “lid” and painted the stem. It was fun to see my studio with over fifty jack-o-lanterns all looking back at me every day while I was making them! And every face is a little different – some silly, some scary, some happy… all of them fun!!!
Glad you like them…
UNCLE GARY

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