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

With just about a month until St. Patrick’s Day…
gotta get stamping if we’re going to have mugs in time!!!

Categories: classes, stamps

Back by popular demand… tonight in my Intermediate Wheel class, we did a stamp-making demo again! And made some fun stamps along the way. Now they just need to dry & be bisqued before we can start to use them!

Categories: process, production, stamped, stamps

Just another night of stamping tonight on this batch of mug cylinders using my own handmade clay stamps. Hoping tomorrow I can trim & get handles attached to all of them!

Categories: stamps

You know how I love making my own stamps…
and this time I “might have” gone with a little bit of a theme?!
‘Tis the season…

Categories: platters, stamped, stamps, surface decoration

After “warming up” with stamping a dinner plate, it was time to tackle a larger platter. A blank canvas… then a couple stamps using my own handmade stamp. Sure I coulda stopped after on ring around the perimeter… but what fun would that be???

Categories: bowls, stamped, stamps, surface decoration

Just doing a little stamping tonight on a couple demo bowls from last night’s pottery class. We discussed making “larger” bowls… and then we did!!! Sure, I could select them plain… HA!!!

Categories: stamps, summer camp

Yesterday at the end of summer camp, a couple of the kids finished early… and asked if they could make some stamps like the ones I made that I let them borrow. Of course I said YES!!!

Categories: stamped, stamps, vases

Little tiny pots need little tiny stamps, right???
I mean, just because they’re smaller doesn’t mean they should go unadorned!!!

That would just be wrong…

Categories: platters, stamped, stamps, surface decoration

Just finished my first week of Summer Camp…
and just decorating another platter in my studio after the kids have left!

Categories: platters, stamped, stamps, surface decoration

Another plate. Another stamp.
Just added a textured rim around this dinner plate!