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

See, it’s catching on… Lisa is out there celebrating Spoon-Rest Sunday too!!!
Another one of my spoon rests out there in the wild living its best life on Lisa’s kitchen countertop!

Categories: pottery

A crazy-cool composition in black & white… one of my spoon rests out in the wild… celebrating Spoon-Rest Sunday! I think we might need to work on making that a thing… and thanks for kicking it off Bethany!

Categories: color, mugs, process, production, stamped

Sure, I could leave the mugs plain… and worry about adding some color when I glaze them. But since these are destined for the soda kiln… I’d rather give them some color now with colored slips that will change as the flames touch them in the kiln… depositing the soda mixture that will also “glaze’ the exteriors!

Categories: mugs, process, production, stamped

Scored & slipped… handles attached! We officially have more mugs!!!
A labor of love… as in “I truly love making mugs!”

Categories: mugs, process, production

Pulled some handles… and flipped them around so they can stand-up with a nice curve to set-up. Once they stiffen up a bit, I’ll start attaching them to my mugs. Score, slip, attach, repeat… and repeat… and repeat…

Categories: mugs, process, production

Here we go… making mugs again! My favorite thing to make!!! And today I’ve got a lot of handles to attach… because without a handle it’s NOT a mug!!! So I’m starting with some nuggets of clay… getting ready to pull my handles.

Categories: food

You knew they would get around to these eventually! After taste-testing so many wacky flavors… some good, some bad… and people frequently comment that they like the wafer cookie part the best. Not me… I’m all filling, all the time! But for those who like the cookies best… here you go! Finally.