03.23.2019
Categories: production, wheelthrowing
Freshly thrown, just off the wheel… a batch of pitchers-to-be!
Tomorrow they’ll be stamped… and if all goes well, trimmed & handled too?!!!
Fingers crossed.
03.18.2019
Now that all of the berry bowls are stamped, trimmed and drilled with holes…
now they need drip plates to catch the water after washing your berries!
Here we go… giddy-up!
03.17.2019
But they still need to be fired & glazed before adding BERRIES!!!
03.17.2019
A bowl is just a bowl… until it gets HOLES.. . and becomes a Berry Bowl.
So I start with my MKM Decorating Disk to help divide the spacing evenly.
I stick my needle tool through the holes on the disk to mark the bottom of the bowl.
And then I pull out the POWER TOOLS!!!
A power drill makes the holes so much faster & cleaner than trying to punch them out by hand. And having a few different sizes of drill bits on hand helps with the design.
Plus… I’m hoping that the clay shrinkage will help close up those big holes…
don’t want to lose any blueberries!
And then after drilling all of the holes, there’s a just a little bot of clean-up om the inside.
These little burrs are very easy to wipe off with my fingers…
but look how clean those holes are!!!
And then
03.17.2019
Lotsa bowls… LOTSA trimming!!!
Good thing I love trimming… almost as much as I love stamping!
03.13.2019
I just found two bowls that I made “awhile” back, and painted the interior with colored slip. I wrapped them up in plastic… and then apparently forgot about them. And it’s been “quite’ awhile… so they were harder & drier than I would like them to be. But with my one of my extra-sharp DiamondCore Tools they still carved like a dream!
03.12.2019
You know how I love making mugs… but I figure Spring has got to get here
at some point, so I better be ready with some Berry Bowls! So I threw my first batch…
of something “other than” mugs!!! Ha!!!
03.12.2019
Wedged balls of clay… filled with potential… oh, what to make???
Ummm… something other than mugs maybe???
03.11.2019
Just finishing another batch of mugs for MUGSHOT MONDAY…
adding some colored flashing slip accents! If all goes as planned, these slip colors
will change dramatically during the soda-firing!
03.09.2019
Another night of stamping. Another night of making mugs… my favorite.
Lots of stamping. Lots of patterns. Lots of repetition!!!
So now they’re stamped… tomorrow I plan on adding handles & colored flashing slip!
Mug One
Mug Two
Mug Three
Mug Four
Mug Five
Mug Six
Mug Seven
Mug Eight
Mug Nine
Mug Ten … whoops, I forgot to get a shot of the stamps???
Mug Eleven … again, really???…Â I forgot to get a shot of the stamps again???
And then to make matters even worse… I forgot to take photos of Mug Twelve all together!!!