Sure, I could have glazed the bowls… but instead I decided to throw more cylinders for another batch of mugs!!! You know how I LOVE making mugs!!! So much better than glazing!!!

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Did a little glazing & wadding in my studio after camp prepping for this weekend’s Three Day Soda-Firing Workshop. My students should be glazing their work too… I just want to be ready with a few extra pieces for kiln filler. Just in case.

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After a full day in Evanston, I swung by the studio last night to do some last minute throwing. I’m teaching a Soda-Firing Workshop next weekend and I need to make some more pots quick to help fill the kiln… and replenish some of the pieces that went to good homes during the art fair!

Fresh out of the bisque… and now with a layer of green wax on the bottoms. A few drops of food coloring in the wax makes it so much easier to see!!! Gotta let this dry and the the glazing frenzy can begin! Under a little “time crunch” to get these into a cone six glaze kiln in time for this weekend’s art fair in Evanston.

Freshly stamped mugs drying in the studio. Getting ready for the Evanston Lakeshore Fine Arts Festival on August 6th & 7th. Got a couple firings to squeeze in before then!!!

Finishing up some long ovals destined to be olive trays if all goes well.
Although I think I may have made them a smidge too large…
hungry & dreaming of blue cheese stuffed green olives. Yum!!!!

After camp, it was an OVAL kind of day!
Because some times round is over-rated.

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Spent the afternoon in the studio doing some stamping & slip decorating. Thankful that these vases didn’t dry out too much while I was off racing yesterday!

While I am not a “factory” cranking out the pottery… it is sometimes interesting to see how production pottery is made. And how every step in the process has been maximized & streamlined. Got to get me one of those plate-making machines! And the “insta-glazing” system… as we all know how much I hate glazing!!!

Click here for the Production Pottery video.

Another batch of stamped porcelain mugs assembled and ready to start drying.