04.05.2009
The weather may have been miserable today… too cold & rainy to play outside…
so I had some “quality time” to make some new pots in the studio!
“Hope springs eternal”… or, based on today’s weather… Spring hopes eternal!!!
Either way… Spring is in the air… so it’s time for some new flower pots!!!
They’ve been thrown and stamped… now they just need to be trimmed, have drainage
holes pierced through, slip decorated, dried, fired, glazed and fired again!
Just in time for those summer plants on your back porch or windowsill!
I am always so impressed with the stamped patterns on your pieces. And every time it amazes me how distorted the inside of your pots are from the stamping. It seems that the clay is so thin and the imprints are so deep. I am sure at this point you don’t have any problems, but was there a point in the beginning where you had a higher loss rate due to stamping too hard?
Thanks.
Actually, when I first started stamping, I really disliked the “reverse impressions” and I would actually sit there and try to rub them smooth. Now I actually enjoy the inside patterns… almost as much as the outside!!! And yes, the clay is pretty thin through the walls of the pot. The key is to support the clay from the inside as you are pressing the stamp into the clay to get a clean impression, not warp the pot… and more importantly, not rip through the clay!!!
The flower pots look great. Are the pot and the plate thrown as one piece?
Yes. The flower pot and tray are thrown as one piece on the wheel. It’s a little more work while throwing, but I like that they stay connected… especially when filled with a plant and moving around on your porch or windowsill. Just more convenient if they stay together instead of a plate than can separate and break – leaving you with a pot that drips on your table.